OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Medical Center

A Central Illinois cardiologist breaks down the potential benefits of GLP-1 medications on heart health. It was one of the American College of Cardiology's top five trends in 2025.

Eunmee Shim has been the president of Adventist Health Care Fort Washington Medical Center in Fort Washington and held several leadership positions at the hospital including chief operating officer and chief nursing officer, according to OSF.

Two new clinics in Lincoln and Forsyth outside of Decatur — about an hour south of Bloomington-Normal — will bring nurse midwives to their respectives areas. The clinics are the result of collaboration between OSF HealthCare and Advanced Women's Healthcare in Bloomington.

U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen visited with health care providers in the 17th Congressional District to learn about key challenges in the industry. Among his top priorities are expanding access to care and mental health resources for patients and health care workers.

First-year medical residents train in simulations for intubation and central line insertion.

The state of Illinois has approved a $17.77 million expansion of OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington. The hospital will add 25 beds to the current 152-bed total; 10 will be medical-surgical care beds and 15 will be for intensive care patients.

The CDC recently announced a first-ever national campaign to combat health professional burnout. Bloomington-Normal hospitals are making efforts to support their workers.

OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington needs a new president. Current president Lynn Fulton is leaving in December to become CEO of the Maui Health System in Hawaii.

Bloomington-Normal hospitals are treating patients for sign of heat illness and heat stroke during this week's stretch of intense heat.

With the COVID emergency over, the state of Illinois in May resumed those eligibility checks – called redeterminations – for the first time in three years. No one knows how many people will get bumped out of Medicaid over the next year.