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How One Blanket Warms An Entire Family

Blessing Hospice hosts the “Memory Bear” program, making items including stuffed bears and pillows for their families out of textile items that belonged to their loved one.

Vascular Conditions

Vascular conditions affect the arteries and veins that circulate blood throughout your body. Some of these conditions can lead to stroke and even death if not treated. Vascular Conditions The vascular…

Emergency Room - Blessing Hospital

No matter if it is day or night, our team of emergency medicine specialists can provide care for all types of injuries and conditions. We are known for: 11th & Broadway 1st Floor 62301 IL …

Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC)

Patients living with an increased stroke risk due to non-valvular atrial fibrillation (Afib) have multiple care options at the Blessing Heart & Vascular Center. Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC) What…

ER Physician Receives Who's Your Angel Award

Dr. Vince Boston, Emergency Center Physician, received a Who’s Your Angel nomination from the Chad and Karla Hildebrand family. The Blessing Foundation presented the Who’s Your Angel certificate and angel wing pin award to Dr. Boston on November 11.

A sister’s advice leads to shocking discovery

It’s probably pneumonia. Maybe it’s COVID? Those were the thoughts running through the mind of 28-year old Patrick Smith as he drove through a dark winter’s night from his home in Hannibal to the Blessing Hospital Emergency Center.

Advice from a stage 3 breast cancer survivor

Joyce Mayfield began breast cancer treatment in January. At that time, Blessing Health surgeon Emmanuel Bessay offered her some advice.

Man finds relief from one of the “costs” of farming

Farming is a tough business. It’s not just the weather, commodity prices, and fertilizer, feed or seed and equipment costs. As if the stress of all that wasn’t enough, the physical activities required in farming take a toll on the human body.

Heart Disease

Atherosclerosis affects the arteries that carry blood to your heart. Also known as hardening of the arteries, this condition is a main contributor to heart disease, a disorder of the heart’s blood vessels. Heart Disease …

Finding hope - and a reason to laugh - after cancer

Dan Simbro has a contagious sense of humor. Ask him how many grandchildren he has and Dan will tell you “a bunch” because he’s afraid to give an exact number and forget someone. In the days before Easter 2022, at age 68, Dan dressed up in a bright pink bunny suit and passed out candy in public.