If you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 911 or go to the Emergency Department at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center.

We are staffed board certified Emergency Medicine physicians, residents, and nursing staff with specialized training in Emergency, Pediatric, and Trauma Nursing.

Important Facts about the Emergency Department

• No appointments are necessary
• We do not give medical advice over the telephone. Feel free to come to the Emergency Department at any time or call your private physician for medical advice
• Patients arrive by private car, taxi, ambulances, and helicopter (Life Flight)
• Fully staffed Emergency Department
• Pediatric Critical Care Center
• Stroke team immediately available to Emergency Department
• Surgeons in-house 24/7
• Specialty physicians on call to the E.D. (Cardiology, Surgery, Medicine, Orthopedics, Gynecology, Psychiatry, Plastics are some examples)
• X-ray, Lab, C.T. Scan and Ultrasound testing available 24 hours/day
• Trauma Care 24 hours/day -- Regional Trauma Center for Central Illinois* Life Flight  helicopter pad