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Two physicians join Illini Rural Health Clinic
Dakota Lammy, MD, and Alborz Javadzadeh, MD, have joined the medical staff of Illini Rural Health Clinic.
Individuals, organizations rally to support local Novel Coronavirus response
Blessing Health System is following federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for health systems across the country to implement tactics to conserve the use of PPE. One CDC-approve tactic is the use of cloth masks over Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) N95 masks to extend the life of the masks. Individuals and organizations are now contacting Blessing Health System to volunteer to sew the cloth masks.
Three Blessing heart caregivers earn advanced certification
Blessing Heart & Vascular Center registered nurses Jody Figge and Naomi Schenk and registered radiologic technologist Shannon Peters have earned the status of Registered Cardiac Electrophysiology Specialist (RCES) from Cardiovascular Credentialing International.
Blessing Hospital to staff and manage hospitalist service
Blessing Hospital will staff and manage its hospitalist service effective February 6, 2018. For the past seven years hospitalist care has been provided by a national company, Sound Physicians.
Blessing Health urologist to see patients in Macomb
David Lieber, MD, board certified urologist, Blessing Health, will see patients at McDonough District Hospital (MDH) each Wednesday, beginning October 5, between the hours of 9 am and 3 pm.
Blessing Hospital earns top grade for patient safety in latest national report
Blessing Hospital was awarded an ‘A’ from the Leapfrog Group in the group’s fall 2020 Hospital Safety Grade report. This national distinction recognizes the hospital’s achievements in protecting patients from harm and providing safer health care.
How Blessing’s Express Clinic team handled COVID surges
The Blessing Express Clinic team will likely never forget January 2022. They saw more than 6,000 patients over those 31 days, mostly for COVID-19 testing due to the omicron variant. How was the team—including 2 RNs, 3 LPNs and 2 CMAs—able to meet that demand?
First COVID-19 Related Death at Blessing Hospital
Today, Sunday, April 19, the first death of an area resident who died of medical conditions complicated by COVID-19 occurred at Blessing Hospital. The individual is a resident of Lewis County, MO and a person in their 80’s to 90’s.
Bond between cancer survivor and care team grows stronger with time
There was a time not so long ago when Darla Hobson avoided healthcare. Now, she never misses an appointment thanks to the cancer team at Illini Community Hospital’s Casteel Center.