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Why We Innovate

Because we ask ourselves: How can we embrace change and create better value for our patients?

For 140 years, the Sisters of OSF have been serving their communities with compassion and humility. The Sisters have never been afraid of taking on the hardest challenges and providing care to all those who needed it. It’s no surprise, then, that when the pace of change in health care is faster than ever, when technological and scientific innovation are enabling so much, that we would take a step back to examine how we can leverage these advances for the benefit of our patients.

Sometimes, taking that step back, we find the inspiration for our future in our past. One of St. Francis of Assisi’s original followers, Brother Juniper was known not only for his generosity, but for looking at the world with a unique perspective was just this inspiration. Employing these principles of humble curiosity and considered risk we are creating conditions conducive to explore new thinking, challenge conventions and champion better, more compassionate care, for all.

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What We Are Exploring

We are focusing on four innovation priority areas.

Clear focus and direction are essential for successful innovation. We have four focus areas of innovation for our Mission Partners, external partners, and innovators. These areas guide our investments and activities in innovation, ensuring they serve the most important needs of our community.These four areas demand innovation; we will not advance our Mission here without it.

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Advancing Simulation
Advancing Simulation
Aging in Place
Aging in Place
More for Those with Less
More for Those with Less
Radical Access to Care
Radical Access to Care

How We Innovate

We do this by focusing on a culture for innovation and learning.

Whether possibilities are generated by an OSF team, a new startup, or a combination, we provide a work environment that is healthy, flexible, high performing and highly collaborative. Whether in ourWORKplace, a balanced approach for creating effective work environments for our office-based Mission Partners or one of our simulation environments for clinical exploration and learning, we have made intentional environments for innovation and learning. We are innovators for life.

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Our Innovation Partners

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