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Blessing Health System and Hannibal Clinic Announce Affiliation
QUINCY, IL…. Blessing Health System and Hannibal Clinic announced today that they have signed an affiliation agreement which will allow them to work more closely together to enhance clinical programs and services, to improve access to quality healthcare, and to lower healthcare costs.
Heart failure doesn’t stop Jim Robinson
Jim Robinson calls himself a “common person.” Some might call Jim lucky.
Illini nurse saves a life and has a pin - and grateful patient - to prove it
Ashley Holland is the first Illini nurse to receive a Blessing Health System “Stroke Recognition Pin” for her role in saving the life of 78-year-old Linda Smith of Pittsfield.
CNA’s impact on patients and coworkers earns Honey Bee award
The coworkers who nominated Tyler Brinkley for the Honey Bee award called him a “team player” and “absolutely amazing with patients.” That nomination led to Tyler, CNA, General Medical/Hospitalist/Observation Decision Unit, to receive the health systems 83rd Honey Bee award during a recent ceremony.
ER doctor cures family’s fears, earns ICARE award
When a woman experienced heart attack symptoms three weeks after a heart attack that required three stents, her frightened daughter – a Blessing employee - brought her to the Emergency Center. There she found a cure for her mother’s symptoms, and for her own fear, in the person of Emergency Center physician, Dr. Roman Fridline.
Provider’s approach turns coworker into a patient and earns an ICARE award
For her relationships with coworkers and patients, Christina Remmert, DO, Blessing Health Hannibal internal medicine, received an ICARE Award for Compassion on September 15.
Nurse reflects on “hugs and thank-you’s” as long career ends
The lesson Angie Hancox takes from Blessing Hospital is timeless when she retires on September 11 after a 41-year nursing career. “Treat others as you would want to be treated."
Celebrating Black History Month: Dr. Bessay's Story
Emmanuel Bessay typifies—and then some—the nontraditional Northwestern medical student. Like the 30 other members of the Class of 2010 who didn’t go directly from their undergraduate alma maters to the Feinberg School of Medicine, this 36-year-old West African native took a different and somewhat harrowing route to medical school.
Blessing Now Offers Cutting-edge Technology to Help Patients with Swallowing Problems
Patients of Blessing Health System’s nationally-accredited physical rehabilitation program now have access to new technology to treat swallowing difficulties.