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Two Blessing Nurses Retire
Two long time Blessing Hospital employees are celebrating their retirement.
Blessing Care Coordination department earns maximum national accreditation
Blessing Health System’s Care Coordination Department has earned the maximum three-year Case Management Accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
Blessing Hospital Senior Chaplain retires
Daniel (Dan) Brothers, Senior Chaplain, Blessing Hospital, retired January 2 after 30 years of service.
Teamwork gets this caller the lifesaving care needed
No one wants to believe they are having a heart attack.
A Tragic FaceTime Call Brings Team Together
Dr. Joe Meyer, Quincy Anesthesia Associates, and Lexi Goodwin, RN, GI Surgery Center, received a Who’s Your Angel nomination from coworker and grandmother, Traci Lirely, RN, GI Surgery Center. The Foundation Office presented the Who’s Your Angel award on February 8.
Blessing Hospital Named Among Country’s Safest Hospitals
Blessing Hospital has earned its second, consecutive grade of “A” for patient safety from a leading national healthcare consumer group. Blessing was one of only 823 hospitals nationwide and 38 in Illinois named among the safest by the Leapfrog Group for spring 2017.
Tamara Scott, RN, received Who's Your Angel Award
Tamara Scott, Care Coordination, RN Inpatient Clinical Care Coordinator, received a Who’s Your Angel nomination from fellow Blessing Hospital employee Carrie Altobelli, Critical Care/PCU, RN. The Blessing Foundation presented the Who’s Your Angel award on June 3.
Man finds life-saving answer to medical mystery with hours to spare
Jerry Hooker saw triple-fellowship trained and board-certified Blessing Health neurosurgeon Ryan Brennan twice in his life.
Quincy businessman joins Blessing Foundation board
Will Spear, Hansen-Spear Funeral Home, has joined The Blessing Foundation Board of Trustees, replacing the late Harry “Bo” Eaton.
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.