RSV is not uncommon and health care authorities say most children will have gotten a cases of the virus before they're 2 years old, but a Bloomington-Normal pediatrician said the trend has been toward older children having more serious issues with the virus.
All OSF HealthCare computers are back online as of Sunday after a two-day outage.
Spokesperson Libby Allison said service was restored systemwide by midnight Saturday after an outage took the computer system that provides patient information at several hospitals and facilities offline mid-Friday afternoon.
OSF HealthCare has 14 hospitals and numerous other facilities throughout Illinois and Michigan. The cause of the outage is still under investigation, but it began about 3:45 a.m. Friday, Allison said. During the outage, downtime procedures and protocols were closely followed, which included rescheduling some appointments and procedures, Allison said in a news release. Patient safety is at the forefront of everything we do, and any decision to delay an appointment or procedure was made with safety in mind.
(WEEK) - OSF Healthcare announced multiple hospitals are back online Saturday after network issue Friday that impacted IT systems.
The following hospitals are back online, and Media Relations Coordinator Libby Allison says they expect others to follow throughout the day:
OSF Saint James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center in Pontiac
OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington
OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center in Danville
OSF Saint Paul Medical Center in Mendota
OSF Saint Luke Medical Center in Kewanee
OSF Holy Family Medical Center in Monmouth
OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center in Ottawa
OSF St. Francis Hospital in Escanaba, MI)
OSF says Home Care Services and OSF Hospice Home are also fully online.
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Health care workers were given top priority when COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out across the country. But not all who are eligible are jumping at the opportunity.
A recent survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation found nearly a third (29%) of health care workers probably or definitely would not accept a COVID-19 vaccine. That’s slightly higher than the percentage of the general public that said they don’t plan to take it (27%).
Those figures are on par with what some central Illinois health care providers are seeing.
Ryan Taylor is assistant director of Green Tree Pharmacy that handles pharmacy services for close to 50 Heritage Health senior care facilities around Illinois, including in Bloomington, Chillicothe, El Paso and Minonk, among other locations.