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Blessing service earns 5-star rating

Blessing Hospital’s Skilled Nursing Unit (SNU) earned an overall five-star rating for the recent survey period of the nation’s nursing homes from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The survey is conducted four times each year. Blessing’s SNU has earned an overall five-star rating in each of the past four survey periods.

How a nasal spray is saving lives

Blessing Outpatient Behavioral Health Services has been offering a new therapy with a medication called Spravato, a nasal spray used to treat depression.

Blessing kidney specialists seeing patients in Macomb

Theseswi Pujar, MD, MBA, FACP, and Taylor Welch, APR-AGACNP, Blessing Hospital Nephrology department, are seeing patients monthly at the Macomb Clinic, 437 E. Grant Street.

Illini Community Hospital seems to have the secret to success for RN recruitment

The Illini Community Hospital RN pipeline is primed and pumping. The nursing staff consists of no less than 13 registered nurses, Pike County natives, who have professionally “grown up” in the hospital.

Keeping this story alive can save others

After years of sophisticated medical care, including surgeries at a children’s hospital associated with Stanford University in southern California, Madilynn’s doctor came to the decision that she needed a heart-lung transplant to live. For a number of reasons, she was not a candidate.

Statement from Blessing Hospital on the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board Staff Report

Blessing Hospital is issuing the following statement on the newly released Staff Report from the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board (“Review Board”).

State commends Blessing trauma program after re-designation survey

Illinois Department of Public Health surveyors sited eight strengths of the Blessing Hospital Trauma Program and no opportunities for improvement after a recent survey.

Orthopedic Surgeon Surprises Patient

On May 3, a year after Ted Dede suffered a terrible hip and elbow fracture in a fall, and his wife Doris fractured her knee cap, the couple were back in the spotlight entertaining area nursing home residents with their musical skills.

Nurses play key role in operating new life-support system

National statistics from the height of the COVID-19 pandemic showed that 50%-60% of patients placed on the life-support system known as ECMO, short for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, survived at least 90 days.