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=== Health care === {{Update inline|date=August 2021}}[[File:St Francis Hospital Blue Island IL.JPG|thumb|St. Francis Hospital, 1909]] Blue Island was for many years home to St. Francis Hospital and its successor MetroSouth Medical Center, long nationally recognized as one of the nation's premier [[circulatory system|cardiovascular]] [[primary care]] centers.<ref>[http://metrosouthmedicalcenter.org/ MetroSouth Medical Center] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103162158/http://metrosouthmedicalcenter.org/ |date=January 3, 2014 }}</ref> The hospital was founded as Saint Francis Hospital in 1905 by the Sisters of St. Mary (currently the [[Franciscan Sisters of Mary]]). They had purchased the home of the late Ernst Uhlich in 1905 for $30,000 ({{inflation|US|30000|1905|r=-3|fmt=eq}}) and updated its systems to outfit the building for its new purpose. At the time, this section of Gregory Street was lined with churches and the homes of some of Blue Island's more prosperous citizens. The facility was outgrown immediately, and within a few weeks of opening plans were being drawn up to add additional rooms and a laundry so that the hospital could accommodate up to 30 patients. A major addition was added in 1916,<ref>{{cite web | author = Curt Teich & Co. |author2=North Suburban Library System | title = St. Francis Hospital, Blue Island, Illinois | publisher = Aero Distributing Co., Chicago, IL | year = 1921 | url = http://www.digitalpast.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/lakecoun004&CISOPTR=5047&REC=12 | access-date = 2009-02-24}}</ref> at which time the house was converted to office space. It was demolished in 1948 to allow room for the next addition. The Sisters of St. Mary relinquished ownership of the facility to MetroSouth Medical Center on July 30, 2008.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-st-francis_31jul31,0,6798618.story | newspaper=Chicago Tribune | title=Topic Galleries}}</ref> In 2014, ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' ranked MetroSouth as one among the top 25 percent of hospitals in the Chicago metropolitan region and among the top 15 percent in the state of Illinois.<ref>{{cite magazine | last = U.S. News & World Report | title = Health β Best Hospitals in Illinois | magazine = U.S. News & World Report | year = 2012 | url = http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/il?page=4 | access-date = 2014-07-21}}</ref> Citing "low patient volume" the hospital was closed in 2019. The campus of the former hospital occupies about {{convert|12|acre|m2}} in the heart of Blue Island's uptown commercial business district.
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