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OSF SAINT FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER
OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, with 616 licensed beds and 554 staffed beds, is the primary teaching hospital for the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria. It is the major referral center for a 23-county region in north-central Illinois. OSF Saint Francis serves as both a primary care community hospital for metropolitan Peoria as well as a tertiary care center complete with Level 1 trauma services and Level 1 intensive care units. OSF Saint Francis is the 5th largest Medical Center in Illinois with 5,000 employees and supports 9 residency programs and 4 fellowships. OSF is currently in the midst of completing a $230 million plus addition to the ED Department, Surgery and Children's Hospital of Illinois. It will be completed in 2010.

 

 
 

THE ILLINOIS NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE

The Illinois Neurological Institute is organized as a hospital within a hospital at the Saint Francis Medical Center. In this role it is the major clinical facility for the residencies in neurology, neurosurgery, and the fellowships in vascular neurology, neuroradiology, and spinal neurosurgery.

The Institute has 90 adult beds including a 31 bed intensive care and step down unit and all pediatric patients are cared for in the Children’s Hospital of Illinois, included in the Saint Francis Campus.  The service has three dedicated newly constructed operating rooms and two interventional biplane neuro-interventional suites.  The Radiosurgery service has a Perfexion Gamma Knife, a Varian Trilogy, Rapid Arc unit and access to a CyberKnife for a full complement of Radiosurgery of brain and spine.  

The Institute is staffed by 17 neurologists, 8 neurology residents, a stroke fellow, 7 neurosurgeons, 6 neurosurgery residents, a spine fellow, three pediatric neurologists, 5 neuroradiologists, two of whom are interventionalists, four neuropsycologists,two neuro-ophthalmologists, a neuroradiology fellow, two radiation oncologists, two sterotactic radiosurgeons, a neuropathologist, and there is an active group of seven associated PhD scientists in the brain tumor biology section at the College of Medicine.  There are over 60 faculty and residents, and approximately 500 staff in the INI. 

Construction is beginning on a 120,000 sq ft  INI outpatient care center on campus that will provide a very effective integrated patient care center for the neurosurgery, neurology, neuroradiology, and physiatry programs. 

 
METHODIST MEDICAL CENTER
This is our secondary teaching facility. Methodist Medical Center is conveniently located ‘across the street’ from OSF Saint Francis. It is a 346-bed medical center with a nationally recognized HeartCare Center in collaboration with the world-renowned Arizona Heart Institute, an Ambulatory Surgery Center that is one of the nation’s busiest facilities, a Level II Trauma Center, and state-of-the-art diagnostic services including one of the world’s most advanced Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners.

It is our PGY5 resident's main responsibility to provide coverage at MMCI in a chief resident's role.