Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing

Higher EducationUnited States51-200 Employees

Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing is a private, non-profit, specialized nursing college in Peoria, Illinois, located on the OSF Saint Francis Medical Center campus at 511 NE Greenleaf Street (61603-3783), and it employs 51-200 people. It operates in the higher education industry and offers upper-division undergraduate and graduate nursing programs, and it is the only Catholic college of nursing in the Peoria Diocese. The college is owned by the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis and is affiliated with OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, a large Catholic health care facility and major employer in Peoria. The institution traces its origins to 1905 as St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing, with a diploma program approved in 1915 and opened to lay students in 1918; the College of Nursing was established in 1985, with first juniors in 1986 and first BSN graduates in 1988. As of December 2013, the college had graduated 2,279 Bachelor of Science in Nursing graduates.

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