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.

How to cope with grief during the holidays

December 8, 2018

Young girl on a swing

Kids, trust and health care: Why finding the right pediatrician matters

December 5, 2018

Toddler in sweater by a Christmas tree.

How to pick Christmas gifts that keep kids moving

December 2, 2018

Dolores Ott, a stroke patient, poses next to her painting of an OSF LIfeFlight helicopter

Swift care and an observant friend saves stroke patient

November 30, 2018

Surgical nurse putting on mask in an operating room

From nursing school to the surgical floor: An OSF HealthCare career story

November 25, 2018

examples of foods with probiotics, including pickled pearl onions, yogurt, saurkraut and pickles

Probiotics: Does everyone need them?

November 22, 2018