This makes perfect sense to me.
From a press release:
HOSPITAL VISITATIONS RESTRICTED IN LIGHT OF H1N1 FLU
Peoria, Illinois October 20, 2009—In light of the growing numbers of H1N1 influenza cases in central Illinois, Methodist Medical Center, in conjunction with OSF St. Francis Medical Center, Proctor Hospital, and Pekin Hospital, are restricting the age of...
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Peoria hospitals restrict visits to fight H1N1
My week just keeps getting better and better
I just took a call from OSF. It seems that want $753 for that MRI I’m scheduled to take tomorrow. That’s MY portion of the cost. It seems I have yet to meet my deductible this year. That’s more than a week’s take home pay — which I’m not going to be getting until...
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Good news for Caterpillar employees
From a press release:
Peoria, Illinois (August 3, 2009)–For the first time since 1992, Caterpillar employees and retirees who participate in the Caterpillar Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) plan will be able to choose Methodist Medical Center for their healthcare needs when Methodist joins the Caterpillar PPO network next July. A new three-year Caterpillar preferred provider...
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Riggenbach to East Bluffers: You had your precious ‘tranparency,’ now shut up and drink the OSF Kool Aid
Timothy Riggenbach hasn’t even completed his first summer as a member of the Peoria City Council, and it’s clear he’s forgotten exactly who he is supposed to represent.
Third District City Councilman Timothy Riggenbach hopes opposition to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center’s wishes to someday build an “energy center” in the East Bluff won’t scare...
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Methodist docs leaving Health Alliance ‘in droves?’
There’s an interesting discussion on the Peoria.com forums about what’s happening at Health Alliance and how Methodist Medical Center physicians are no longer participating.
Tell me again how we shouldn’t have universal health care because it would deprive people of choice …
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Bearce family drives big donation to Children’s Hospital
From a press release:
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Local: A Blogger Bash rehash, and throwing some love to C.J.
I finally got some use out of my spiffy new digital camera by snapping some pics at tonight’s Blogger Bash. The evidence is available for viewing at my new blog: BillyDennis.com.
Meanwhile, C.J. Summers scooped the mainstream media with details and commentary on a federal lawsuit filed by OSF.
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Local: The things you hear and see during a walk
I went for a long walk today, from my home on Randolph down to visit relatives who live near Main and University.
Yes, there are an awful lot of empty storefronts along West Main Street. But there are an awful lot of businesses that are not. But people don’t know about them because they don’t...
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Today’s News: No surprises
Links via the Journal Star:
To the surprise of no one, OSF Health Plans has been old. The new owner will be Humana Inc. This sale was mentioned back when the city was deciding who employees’ health care provider would be. The decision to pick OSF over rival Methodist saved the city millions of dollars....
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Liveblogging: Peoria City Council, 4
Item 5: Consideration of the Consent Agenda.
Items taken off the consent agenda: H, J, K, L, O, P
H. Communication from the City Manager and Director of Planning and Growth Management Requesting the ESTABLISHMENT of a SPECIAL ASSESSMENT ASSISTANCE FUND by REALLOCATING $200,000 in UNALLOCATED CDBG FUNDS (City-Wide).
Passes 9-2. Nichting and Turner.
J. 2007 OCT 09...
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Put Sick Kids First
I agree with Mr. Murphy’s forum article this morning that sick kids need to be put first.
What is frequently missing from articles such as his is that Haitian Hearts donated over 1.1 million dollars to Children’s Hospital of Illinois for the medical care of Haitian children. We have also offered them full and...
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Cleveland Clinic Rescues Peoria’s OSF
Several weeks ago I posted an open letter to The Catholic Diocese of Peoria and OSF regarding accepting Maxime Petion at OSF for heart surgery.
Maxime is a young Haitian man who had been operated at OSF in 2002. He is currently very ill. Unfortunately, OSF has been denying Haitian Hearts patients the chance to...
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More OSF woes
Not five minutes ago, I got a phone call from OSF wanting to speak to my Dad. to schedule some tests. Their records have my phone number instead of his. I have told these people many, many times to please correct the number. Dad’s private doctor — affiliated with OSF — does the same...
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Sell the Southtown property
It would seem that all the questions have been answered. Methodist Medical Center wants to build a facility similar to the one a Pensylvania group wants to build on a long-vacant four-acre lot in the Southtown TIF district. It’s not likely the state is going to approve two such facilities in the same city.
If...
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OSF: ‘Often Stupid Foul-ups’
My current phone number was once was in my parents’ name. I occasionally get phone calls for them and I’m happy to pass along messages.
Mostly.
I keep getting phone calls from their doctor office. I keep telling them the correct number and each time they promise that they have made the change in their computers...
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Are Peoria’s hospitals also Peoria’s foes?
About a year ago, my parents had to get a new doctor. The one they had been seeing dropped his association with OSF Medical Center. It seemed that this doctor had started teaching at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. OSF gave him an ultimatum: Stop teaching there we’ll kick you out of...
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FAX: More road closings
Via a Peoria City Hall press release:
Pipco will be making a sanitary sewer and water main connection for OSF which will require closing Armstrong Ave between Berkley Ave and Missouri Ave Monday night September 19, 2005 starting at 6:30 p.m. until 6:30 a.m., the road way will be open to traffic during the daytime...
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