PEORIA MAGAZINE April 2023

“I haven’t seen anything like it in any location … across the country, and frankly, in my travels across the world,” he said. “There may be other simulation programs that are large and there may be other innovation centers that provide all kinds of … interesting new technologies … but ours is literally integrated.” “If you don’t integrate it, it won’t make an impact to health care delivery,” added Buchen. Up next is doing that with OSF’s soon-to-be-completed Cancer Center. TRAINING AND EDUCATION Since 2013, Jump has provided training to more than 1.1 million learners in “one of the world’s biggest” simulation centers. Meanwhile, the Jump STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) program has introduced 8,000 young people across 20 states, starting at age 6, to in-person, virtual and do-it-yourself experiences including a summer camp and overnight mini-medical school. The exposure can lead to later internships or jobs. The whole point is to simulate real world challenges that prepare students and professionals for the actual moment. Practice makes perfect. Indeed, tour Jump with Noel Adams, vice president of academic collaborations and operations at Innovation Discovery Labs, and you’ll plant eyes on an interior ambulance bay outside of a built-to realistic-scale senior apartment. How do you extricate an 85-year-old who falls in a very tight bathroom? Paramedics in training find out here first. There’s a replica of an OSF operating room, right down to the pea-green, sky-blue and cream color scheme of the floor tile. What would happen if a fire, however remote the possibility, were to erupt in the operating room? Surgeons in training learn how to respond here first. Meanwhile, med students work with patient actors who describe their symptoms, high-tech mannequins – they can cry, sweat — on which they can practice an intubation or IV insertion, and cadavers. “SimMom” takes them through a full birthing scenario.

In a nearby lab, a 3D printer churns out personalized organ replicas in plastic and resin. How might most of a liver be saved during a tumor removal? How might the blood vessels be re routed? Where’s the best spot to deliver targeted radiation treatment? The models help doctors make those calls.

information technologies, medical devices, therapeutics, diagnostics and technology-enabled delivery solutions. In terms of getting behind a company, “we try to stay close to what the Ministry’s strategy is,” said Taneja Mayank, vice president of OSF Ventures. So far, that has meant steering clear of biotech and pharmaceutical investments, though that could change with the Cancer Center coming on line, he said. What’s in it for OSF are early access to emerging technologies and the solu tions they bring. Entrepreneurs, mean while, get the capital they need and the expertise and mentorship to help them develop their products. Exo Works is coming along in that environment. The Innovation Studio assists OSF employees, known as “Mission Partners,” in the development/commercialization of their ideas. DeviceTable, Medical Cart AR and Flight Path are examples. Meanwhile, the Jump ARCHES (Applied Research for Community Health through Engineering and Simulation) grant program partners with OSF HealthCare, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria to provide seed money for promising technologies. With an endowment of $112.5 million, the program has awarded nearly $10.3 million to 143 projects. Enduvo, the cutting-edge, virtual and augmented reality company that came out of the Advanced Imaging and Modeling Lab at Jump, benefited from ARCHES. Also on OSF Innovation's radar is research addressing aging in place, the opioid crisis, health equity and literacy. Meanwhile, health care entrepreneurs are finding uses for these technologies in other industries. The future may include “taking apart aircraft engines for the Air Force” or “servicing heavy equipment with General Electric,” said Vozenilek. “Jump is an important economic development asset in two ways. First, as the heart of OSF’s innovation efforts, it has the capacity to generate new busi nesses that become their own economic drivers,” said Chris Setti, CEO of the Greater Peoria Economic Development

It’s not just about the delivery of top notch medicine. How does a doctor tell a patient he or she has cancer? Jump provides that instruction, too. Ultimately, it’s important to have a safe space to learn where mistakes can be made without consequences. Jump leaders are proud of their ability to produce “the most realistic environment you’ll ever get in simulation.” Meanwhile, the whole building is designed “so people can bump into one another” and share ideas, said Adams. Given the pace of technological change, it’s “still a work in progress.” ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OSF Ventures invests in start-ups, some 30 of them so far – 19 in its active portfolio — with $250 million in assets under management. Areas of strategic interest include health Sister M. Pieta Keller, an innovation engineer, displays a model of a heart made by the 3D printer in her Jump Center lab

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