Welcome to the OSF HealthCare Blog

Staying up to date on what's happening in health care can be a challenge these days. The OSF HealthCare Blog offers you the latest thinking on health care innovation, wellness, preventive medicine, diet, fitness and more. Hear from OSF HealthCare experts as well as from our patients who experience our care first hand.

Young boy with measles being comforted by father

Measles 101: What you should know

February 20, 2019

Pete McNear and family

‘Half a heart kid’ thriving today due to Congenital Heart Center specialists

February 19, 2019

Ottawa High School students and staff participate in the Stop the Bleed event.

Class is in session: Improving health through education

February 17, 2019

Dennis VanMeter and family at home.

A daughter’s journal of her father’s heart attack

February 15, 2019

microphone at a podium in an empty hall

How therapy turned ‘can’t’ into ‘can’ for this man with Parkinson’s

February 13, 2019

OSF HealthCare harmonica therapy instrument and sheet music

Hitting the right note with harmonica therapy

February 11, 2019