Welcome New Board Member: Emma Bailey

Emma Bailey, BSN, RN

Meet one of our newest Board Members, Emma Bailey. Emma is a Clinical Digital Care Nurse Supervisor at OSF OnCall in downtown Peoria, Illinois. Emma also recruits and enrolls patients with chronic conditions in a remote patient monitoring program using the latest home monitoring technology through a Medicaid Innovative Collaboration.

Emma was a social worker with fifteen years of experience as a foster care case manager, women's counseling/ case manager, open adoption worker, and recruitment/ enrollment/family development preschool program coordinator. Emma has volunteered as an abstinence educator, teen counselor, and Court-appointed Special Advocate. Emma's first degree was from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Emma then obtained a degree from Illinois Central College and OSF College of Nursing. Emma is an ICU-trained nurse who worked in the Neuro ICU at OSF and then worked as a lead neurosurgeon's nurse. Emma then returned to the hospital setting as a charge nurse of a medical-surgical inpatient floor and an outpatient with the observational floor. Emma's next step was becoming a case manager in the emergency department before finally landing at OSF OnCall.

Emma is a Peoria resident who is a married mother of two daughters, one who is also a married nurse and one who is a seventeen-year-old senior in high school.  Emma is also the proud grandmother of two grandchildren. Emma is passionate about her work in the community and supports the growth and development of all members of society with a special emphasis on the vulnerable and disenfranchised. 

We welcome you Emma and are thankful for sharing your talents with our efforts to enhance the lives of older adults in Peoria!