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Man finds out that when it comes to heart care, the movie line is true – there is no place like home

Jerry Kaszynski knows how to keep the beat. For the past three years, the 75-year-old retired chemist from Hannibal has played bass guitar in the Southern Rail country music band – to the delight of line dancers from Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri to Riverside, Iowa, and many towns in the Tri-State area.

Quarterly food distribution in Pike County on August 27

Illini Community Hospital is hosting a quarterly food distribution for Pike County, Illinois residents only on Tuesday, August 27 in Barry.

Quarterly food distribution in Pike County on March 16

Illini Community Hospital is hosting the quarterly food distribution for Pike County residents only on Saturday, March 16, starting at 9 am until the food runs out.

Special event for women cancer survivors to be held in Quincy

All area women cancer survivors are invited to a special event designed to enhance their quality of life.

Art by Quincy Artists Guild on display at Blessing Hospital

Art by the Quincy Artists Guild will be on display throughout the month of March in the main lobby of the Blessing Hospital 11th Street Campus. The Guild’s annual show at the Hospital features two dimensional works by both amateur and professional members. These works are predominantly watercolor, oil paintings and photography.

Therapist offers quicker path to better mental health

Julie Eftink is a telehealth therapist focused on helping people build resilience through “strengths-based therapy” methods.

Patient’s pain leads Blessing urology team to take quick action

While having her appendix removed six years ago, Dina Carr learned she had a kidney problem. Each year the nurse from Chatham, IL, would have a kidney function test to monitor her condition, in which the tube that drains urine from one of her kidneys to her bladder was blocked.

Man’s 30-year search for freedom ends with a device the size of a quarter

Mike Metcalf invested 28 years of his life defending freedom around the world as a soldier in the United States Army. Today, the 76-year-old Palmyra, Missouri, resident celebrates his freedom. His medical freedom.

How two women - who refused to give up -found help and a brighter future

Blessing doctors help mother-of-the-bride-to-be recapture her “glow”

Marcia Sorrill will be glowing as she watches her daughter get married in December. Not the manufactured glow of a tanning bed, but the radiance that results from a mother’s love for and pride in her daughter, and from the skill of two Blessing doctors.