OSF St Anthony Medical Center

OSF Saint Anthony is a 254-bed tertiary care facility on a 100-acre campus in Rockford, Illinois. Patients from a 10-county area come to us for services including the Level I Trauma Center, Regional Heart Institute, Illinois Neurosciences Institute, Center for Cancer Care, the OSF Diabetes Center, Center for Sports Medicine and Health Fitness and leading edge orthopedic services.

OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center is a member of OSF HealthCare, an affiliate corporation of The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis. From 2002 to 2005, consumers in Winnebago, Boone and Ogle counties selected OSF Saint Anthony as their preferred hospital in a survey conducted by National Research Corporation.

In December 2004, OSF Saint Anthony became the first medical center in Rockford and the 90th in the nation to achieve accreditation as a Chest Pain Center. This elite, three-year accreditation, given by the Society of Chest Pain Centers, is earned by medical centers with emergency departments that are able to provide a full-spectrum of emergency cardiac care, rapid diagnosis and fast track treatment.

In May 2005, OSF Saint Anthony became the first medical center in Rockford to earn the prestigious Magnet designation. The highest recognition for nursing excellence available in the United States, Magnet designation is awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association. Of more than 6,400 hospitals in the United States, fewer than 150 elite medical centers have earned Magnet status.