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Sepsis

Sepsis, the body’s overwhelming and toxic response to infection, kills over 350,000 adults in the U.S. every year. Through public education, we can raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of sepsis so people in our communities know when to seek…

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.

Blessing Hospital increases visiting to select inpatients

Billing & Insurance

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6 North Nurse Earns DAISY Award

Katie Hildebrand, RN, 6 North general medical/oncology, became the 87th Blessing Hospital nurse to receive the international DAISY award during a ceremony on August 29, 2023.

Man finds relief after decade of suffering

New visitor registration process comes to Blessing Hospital on May 31

Blessing Hospital visitors will begin using an automated visitor and vendor registration process on Tuesday, May 31. It will allow hospital officials to know everyone who is in the building at any point in time, enhancing safety.

It’s your health. It’s your life. It’s your choice.

Teaching people, helping them to understand their health and how the choices they make impacts their health, is as much a part of caregiving as taking vital signs.

Type 1 Diabetes

If you or someone you love is newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, you may feel overwhelmed by your “new normal.” At the Blessing Diabetes Center, we know that managing your blood sugar is just the beginning of successful diabetes care. Type 1…

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.