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Recent News

• Ottawa Regional to Join OSF Healthcare System
• Humana Awards Grant to OSF HealthCare
• OSF Healthcare System to Participate as Federal ACO
• Loving Hearts, Helping Hands Needed As Hospice Volunteers
• Profiles of Two OSF Home Care Volunteers
• AJ Querciagrossa Appointed President/CEO

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Press & Media Contacts

For press and media inquiries, please contact:

Jon McKee
Director, Public Relations & Communications
p: (800) 232-3129 opt. 5 | f: (309) 689-6284

Featured Media

State Representative Visits Home Care Patients (WEEK News 25)
Illinois State Representative Jason Barickman joined the OSF Home Care Eastern Region team on December 8, 2011 to visit home health and hospice patients to learn more about this type of medical care.

Letter to the Editor 11/29/11 (Daily Press)
Dr. Ronald Bissett, Hospice & Palliative Care Director for the Escanaba region, discusses National Hospice & Palliative Care Month.

No One Dies Alone Program (Daily Press)
Ilene Kotajarvi, Hospice Volunteer Coordinator in the Escanaba region, was interviewed about the No One Dies Alone program.

Hospice Program Grows in Dickinson County (Daily Press)
Ilene Kotajarvi, Hospice Volunteer Coordinator in the Escanaba region, discusses the expansion of OSF Home Care into Dickinson County.

Helping Hands & Caring Hearts (Daily Press)
Abram Morse, Jr., an Escanaba native, shares the story of his father's journey with OSF Hospice.

About OSF Home Care Services

OSF Home Care Services is a division of OSF HealthCare and OSF Saint Francis, Inc. and includes these core services: Hospice, Home Health, Home Medical Equipment, Home Infusion Pharmacy, Personal Response Systems and Diabetes Supply Program. 

OSF Home Care has offices in Galesburg, Peoria, Bloomington and Rockford, Illinois and in Escanaba, Michigan. Its service area includes most of central and northern Illinois and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In 2011, its home health division completed almost 140,000 visits and its hospice division averaged almost 250 patients per day.

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About OSF HealthCare

OSF HealthCare, owned and operated by The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, Peoria, Illinois, includes OSF Healthcare System consisting of seven acute care facilities, two long-term care facilities, and two colleges of nursing. It also has a primary care physician network consisting of over 600 primary care, specialist physicians, and advanced practice providers.

OSF HealthCare owns OSF Saint Francis, Inc., comprised of health care-related businesses, and OSF Healthcare Foundation, the philanthropic arm of OSF Healthcare System and OSF Home Care Services.

OSF HealthCare is a multi-state corporation, operating facilities in Illinois and Michigan, providing state-of-the-art, compassionate care to more than 2.5 million people in the communities we serve.

For more information, please feel free to download the following PDF documents.