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Blessing Health System and Quincy Park District partner for community fitness
Beginning April 7, area residents will have a new and exciting fitness option. In partnership with Blessing Health System, the Quincy Park District will offer an outdoor fitness boot camp.
Oh deer! Mother and daughter experience the Blessing Difference in the middle of the highway
Kimberly Bartimus is a natural-born helper and Debby Rabe is forever grateful. “That’s why I am in this field,” said Kimberly, a certified nurse assistant and four-year member of the Blessing Hospital staff. “It’s in my blood.”
Teresa Adams House Bar Olympics
Join us at The Dock in Quincy on September 20 for the Teresa Adams House Bar Olympics!Get a partner and participate in cornhole, pool, darts, bottle strike, quarters, golf, a-hole, washers, beer pong and ladder golf! Complete all 10 games to be…
Through helping others, woman replaces grief with joy and anger with peace
Three years ago, a tidal wave of nearly unbearable grief and anger flooded Victoria Marten Haxel’s world.
What can you do to help a cardiologist sleep better at night?
Help your Blessing cardiologist sleep easier tonight by committing to call 911 if you ever experience chest pain or other symptoms that could be a heart attack – and tell your family and friends to do the same thing.
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.
Finish line to a lifetime dream gets closer for a Blessing Hospital volunteer
Rich Avoletta will be on the east coast July 30 competing in triathlon.
Knee replacement leads woman to second career helping others in pain
Three weeks into retirement from a job she held for 31 years, 62-year-old Pam Porter decided she needed to get back to work. So, Pam got a new job – actually two of them. She was hired to do patient registration for Blessing Health orthopedic surgeon Dr. Barry Werries. And her other job? “I am like a walking billboard for Dr. Werries.”