Known for its innovation center, OSF Healthcare, a major healthcare system in Illinois with 13 hospitals, is walking the talk. Its flagship hospital, St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, IL, a Level I Trauma Center became the first hospital in the state to adopt an innovative mobile comprehensive prehospital communication and care coordination technology, like Twiage, with multiple EMS partners in the Peoria area to improve prehospital care.

“This will improve turnaround times, get the units back out on thestreet quicker and also allow us to notify some specialty services (trauma,cardiology, neurology) as needed depending on the case,” says Matthew Jackson, M.D. Emergency Medical ServicesMedical Director for Peoria EMS and emergency physician with OSF HealthCareSaint Francis Medical Center. 

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