OSF HealthCare

Welcome to the 8:00 hour.

At 8:06, we're gonna meet Dr. Vishwa Patel from OSF coming up here in just a few moments.

She is a physician and, um, we love having physicians in here at Greg Soulje' because they're so smart.

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Happy to welcome Dr. Vishwa Patel, family medicine physician at OSF Medical Group Primary Care in Danville, special interest in headache medicine.

She is accepting new patients.

Yes.

So at OSF HealthCare, our breast health experts, we have a wonderful team that help guide patients through the entire process, from a screening mammogram through any follow-up care that might be needed.

We understand that some people put off mammograms because they're worried about discomfort or about receiving an abnormal result.

Our goal is to make the process as comfortable and convenient as possible.

So, um, we're, we're constantly, "Are you doing okay? Are you doing okay?" to our patients.

Um, a screening mammogram is an X-ray of the breast, and it remains one of the best tools for detecting breast cancer early.

At OSF HealthCare, scheduling is easy because y- you don't have to have a provider, um, to get that screening mammogram.

You can schedule it through OSF MyChart or visit osfhealthcare.org/mammo.

So you're not going to ever sacrifice ease or convenience for a diminished quality, right, or diminished depth, meaning am I providing all the things that I can provide with the most technology today? And so we bring in strong people with very strong backgrounds in academics and clinical medicine, and that's how you develop these individual programs within neurology.

That's Dr. Andrew Sung, neurosurgeon and vice president of OSF Healthcare Illinois Neurological Institute.

And I'm Shelley Dankhoff, your host for OSF Healthcare Accelerated.

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People in Illinois who need complex brain and spine surgery now have access to one of the nation's most advanced surgical navigation systems.

OSF Healthcare St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria is the first hospital in Illinois and among the first in the country to install the Medtronic Stealth Axis Surgical System.

Joining us to talk about this and more are Dr. Andrew Sung, neurosurgeon and vice president of OSF Healthcare Illinois Neurological Institute, and Dr. Max Kahn, also a neurosurgeon with INI.

Thank you both for being with us.

His approach to enrollment growth emphasizes authentic relationship building, strategic marketing, and data informed decision-making rather than dependence on purchased prospect lists.

Austin Blair serves as Dean of Admissions and Marketing for both Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing and Saint Anthony College of Nursing, part of OSF HealthCare.

In this role, he leads admissions, marketing, recruitment, and enrollment strategy across two distinct institutions with a focus on sustainable growth, innovation, and student-centered enrollment practices.

With more than a decade of experience in higher education, Austin has built a career focused on enrollment management, leadership development, and organizational transformation.

Prior to his current role, he held several positions at Eureka College, advancing from admissions counselor to director of admissions before joining OSF HealthCare.

Beyond higher education, Austin serves as a high school football coach, an experience that has shaped his philosophy on leadership, teamwork, and building trust through times of change.

[upbeat music] Austin, it is great to have you on the show.

That was probably the biggest hurdle I had to overcome in the first two years.

Hey, do you know where your car at? Do you know your car is burning up down the street? And when they got to the home, they found wood inside with a gunshot wound.

Emergency medical personnel transported her to OSF Healthcare in St. Francis Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.

Two other children were found unharmed inside the residence.

It said the preliminary investigation indicates the vehicle was had been driven from the area of the shooting before crashing.

Nearly a year after Illinois lawmakers passed the bill, Hospitals, hospice organizations, coroners and physicians in McLean County are still working out what role, if any, they'll play.

OSF Healthcare, one of two major hospital networks serving McLean County, opposed the legislation throughout the legislative process.

That's according to Chris Manson, the health system's vice president of government relations.

We opposed it from the very beginning, and we've got a lot of concerns basically for our patients, how these people are going to be very vulnerable when they're seeking this.

I mean, we got the Civic Center, pretty big place, but somewhere around 50,000 people showed up for the beatification.

And one of those... from OSF Healthcare and Roman Catholic extraordinaire, friend of show, Shelli Dankoff.

Shelley, how's it going in St. Louis?

It has been busy, and it has been phenomenal, and it truly is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to see and participate in, but it is you just keep going, wow, because it really is kind of overwhelming in some ways.

What is the role that OSF is playing, though, with the beatification?

Well, as you might understand in an event like this, there's sponsors that help make such an event happen.

And so we were the premier sponsor, OSF Healthcare and the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis were the lead sponsors of the event.

Gotcha.

we love to hear from you on your input, 217-359-2255.

But Peggy had a chance to tour OSF Healthcare.

I tell you what, whatever they're doing, they don't have enough beds for what's needed.

But it's a good start.

Well,

I'm glad you toured the facility about the inpatient behavioral health.

I'm reading about it now with Sacred Heart Medical Center with OSF Healthcare at 1405 West Park Street.

What are some of the things you're seeing then? I know that for me, when they had the ribbon cutting, they had hardly anything in the room because you don't want anybody to

The overall five-year survival rate reached a historic milestone of 70% for all combined cancers.

Work being done at the OSF Cancer Institute is contributing to those improving numbers.

And we're designing the space so teams can interact.

I think one of the things that I've learned over my time in medicine is no one does this by themself.

And so even having a team where the physician is working side by side with their APP and the nurse and maybe a learner, having that sense of the team interacting really improves patient care and the communication between the team members.

Thinking about physical spaces and how we design those and how we design that for the goals that we have and the vision we have for the cancer route has been really important.

That's Dr. Robert McWilliams, Deputy Director of the OSF Cancer Institute, and I'm Shelley Dankoff, your host for OSF Healthcare Accelerated.

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