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Workplace Wellness Benefits

Your employees are the backbone of your business. When they are healthy, everyone is happier—and you can more easily manage your healthcare costs. Workplace wellness programs can get you there.Workplace Wellness: What You Should KnowWorkplace…

REGISTERED NURSE (RN) - ILLINI - MED SURG

JOB SUMMARY This position is responsible for assessing patient/family health problems and resources, taking a leadership role in the development, implementation and outcomes evaluation of a plan for nursing care provided by the nursing team.…

LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE - MED SURG

JOB SUMMARY This position requires providing services to one or more age populations, including adult through geriatric, in a manner that demonstrates an understanding of the functional/developmental age of the individual served. All position…

Childbirth Education

What do contractions feel like? How long might labor last? As your baby’s arrival gets closer, it’s normal to have questions and feel a bit unsure about what to expect. That’s why we offer free educational classes designed to help you feel confident…

Area patients receiving letters from insurance plans in error

Some area residents who see Blessing Health providers for their healthcare are receiving letters from their insurance plans stating that their provider is out-of-network. Those letters are being sent in error.

Pierre Robin Sequence

A rare set of abnormalities where children are born with an underdeveloped, small lower jaw and improper tongue position. Pierre Robin Sequence This rare congenital condition results in a small lower jaw…

State-of-the-art testing system now online in Blessing Hospital Laboratory

Blessing Hospital has purchased and installed a “BioFire®” testing system in its laboratory. BioFire® allows for in-house testing of twenty-one common viral and bacterial respiratory pathogens in less than an hour. The BioFire® platform has received FDA approval for COVID-19 testing and Blessing Hospital Laboratory will implement the test immediately upon receipt of the test kits from the company.

Hemifacial Microsomia

An underdevelopment of one side of the face. Hemifacial Microsomia This underdevelopment of one side of your child's face creates an asymmetry that may affect your child's skull, ear, jaws and soft…

Blessing Health System earns state recognition for antibiotic use

Both Blessing Health System hospitals, Blessing Hospital in Quincy and Illini Community Hospital in Pittsfield, have been recognized by the Illinois Department of Public Health’s (IDPH) Acute Care Antimicrobial Stewardship Honor Roll program with Silver status.

Statement on Health Facilities and Services Review Board Decision to Approve the Blessing Ambulatory Surgery Center Relocation

Blessing Health System President and CEO Maureen Kahn is issuing the following statement on today’s Health Facilities and Services Review Board decision to approve Blessing Hospital’s Certificate of Need application to relocate and modernize the current Ambulatory Surgery Center: