OSF Independent Affiliates

OSF Healthcare System has developed a means by which it can work cooperatively with community hospitals throughout Illinois.

A non-profit community hospital and OSF Healthcare System affiliate with one another to more effectively collaborate and to integrate the care delivery systems of the two organizations. The Independent Affiliate always retains local control with its own Board of Directors and its existing staff. Likewise, no changes in staff occur at OSF Healthcare System.

Generally, OSF Healthcare System works with the Independent Affiliate to address the needs identified by the Affiliate focusing on three major areas:

1. Community health planning - The two organizations develop plans to address the unmet and underserved health care needs of the areas jointly served.


2. Coordination of services - Together, coordinate the care offered to patients. The continuum of services usually focuses on OSF Healthcare System providing specialty services, including clinics in the Independent Affiliate's service area, as well as providing clinical support and services to the Affiliate hospital and its physicians.


3. Contractual relationships - The two organizations work to identify contractual relationships, which become available to the Affiliate through their relationship with OSF Healthcare System. Typically, they include managed care plans offered to the community as well as service and purchasing agreements for the Affiliate hospital.

Current Affiliates