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Sara Overton, the chief nursing officer at OSF Medical Group and Home Care and Peoria City/County Health Department Administrator Monica Hendrickson and the update the treatment, precautions and changing symptoms for COVID-19 as the virus changes. They also discuss a local study on long COVID and explain monkeypox.

This story highlights all of the new features in a YMCA building in Bloomington, Illinois, including a therapy pool, that will be among options available to Easter Seals of Central Illinois on land located on the OSF HealthCare hospital and cancer center campus. OSF HealthCare donated the land as part of fundraising efforts that led to the project that was a decade-long effort.

Some patients need extra monitoring between office visits, especially those with conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, COPD, heart failure or asthma. This interview segment highlights the fact OSF HealthCare recently launched a remote patient monitoring program to assist Medicaid patients and some of its own Mission Partners and their family members (with an OSF HealthCare plan) – to monitor and care for them without the need for travel.

The Alton (Illinois) Telegraph talks with Mission Partners and a patient at Moeller Cancer Center.

The Riverbender talks to a patient at OSF Moeller Cancer Center who was honored at the Alton River Dragons game on July 27, 2022.

After Chris Manson of OSF HealthCare led an effort to get an Advanced Medical Transport ambulance to war-torn Ukraine in April, several more have been transported. This story highlights that by the end of the year, Manson expects to have supported efforts to ship about 20 such vehicles to that area.

Karen Boyd, Heather Chambers, and Dr. Alejandro Sanz of OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony's Health Center in Alton, Illinois, talk with WBGZ radio.

For the second time this year, a major national media outlet is recognizing Michelle Conger as one of the top chief strategy officers among the nation's health care systems. The publication recognized Conger's role in creating the OSF Innovation division and for also serving as CEO of OSF OnCall, the expanding Digital Health arm of OSF HealthCare.

WAND-TV talks with OSF infectious disease physician Dr. John Farrell on monkeypox.

WDAN radio in Danville, Illinois, talks with Dr. Jomel Labayog of Hegeler Cancer Center. The Danville Dans baseball team recently hosted OSF.

The program focuses on three medical innovations in use at OSF HealthCare and/or medical students in Peoria. One improves the infusion of resuscitative fluids or blood for ill patients; another offers training capabilities for doctors delivering high radioactive doses directly into cancer tumors; and a third uses artificial intelligence to better educate medical students.

Health Leaders Media talks to OSF HealthCare leaders about home care.

The Commercial News in Danville, Illinois, profiles the Cares-4-Kids program, where OSF HealthCare teaches kids about healthy habits.

OSF OnCall Digital Health Leader Karlen Sandall, who oversees the Community Health Workers program, was on a panel to brief the Congressional Social Determinants of HEALTH Caucus on "Addressing Food Insecurity and Nutrition as a SDOH." Sandall explained how OSF and federally qualified health centers and community-based organizations are using a digital health platform connects patients in need with community-based organizations that can assist them.

This story highlights the importance of having difficult end-of-life decisions ahead of time to ease the burden during a challenging time. The story quotes OSF HealthCare leaders connected with OSF Saint Anthony's Health Center in Alton.

OSF HealthCare neurosurgeon Dr. Charles Rosen talks with WCIA about brain aneurysms in young people.

OSF医疗保健中心玛丽医疗中心主席杰瑞德·罗杰斯博士与福克斯伊利诺斯州就香槟县的反暴力倡议进行了交谈。

Steve Bugelli和Brad Zorns是伊利诺伊州丹维尔市OSF医疗保健圣心医疗中心的两名患者，他们向WDAN介绍了心脏康复。

The Alton (Illinois) Telegraph reports on the palliative care program at OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony's Health Center.

Adults age 65 and older visit the emergency department three times more often for medication-related adverse events than younger adults do, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This story taps the expertise of Manharkumar Patel, MD, a family medicine specialist with OSF Medical Group in Palos Heights to address the factors and ways caregivers can prevent medication-related complications for older Americans.

OSF HealthCare leaders joined others at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, the Peoria City-County Public Health Department, and Unity Point Health to announce participation in national research to better define long COVID to better treat those suffering from it. Dr. Sarah Stewart deRamirez, OSF HealthCare Population Health medical director says defining long COVID is the goal of the National Institutes of Health's new $22 million, four-year study, "Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery," or RECOVER. About 200 adults will participate in the Peoria-based research study.

OSF医疗保健公司正与香槟-厄巴纳地区的其他商业和社区领袖一道，投资总计30万美元打击当地犯罪。“影响基金”的投资将分配给香槟郡联合方式，以解决暴力犯罪的即时解决方案，以及解决导致未来暴力行为的潜在因素和模式的长期解决方案。

OSF Ventures是OSF HealthCare的投资部门，总部位于伊利诺伊州皮奥里亚。上周，马雅克•塔内贾(Mayank Taneja)接掌公司后，该公司迎来了一位新的领导者。他将继续领导即将退休的斯坦·莱纳尔(Stan Lynall)的工作，负责管理三个基金中2.5亿美元的资产，专注于医疗技术，包括诊断和工作流程解决方案。

Shannon Egli of OSF Jump Simulation and Education Center stresses that kids can battle boredom when parents order a STEAM-at-Home kit complete with a specimen to dissect, and all materials needed. Kids and parents can follow along with a video-on-demand version of the course, designed to inspire a love of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math and an understanding of how they come together in various health careers.