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Blessing offers new treatment for common urologic condition

Blessing Health’s Urology team offers a new treatment for a frustrating and common medical problem that affects millions of adults.

Ready or not, here I come! Parents find the care they need in their new hometown when baby arrives early

Moms and dads, imagine this: You’re pregnant with your first bundle of joy when a great job opportunity comes up in the next state, five weeks before your due date.

Endocrinologist, psychiatrist and emergency physician join Blessing Health

Sandra Dempsey, MD, Roman Fridline, MD, and Bejoy John, MD have joined Blessing Hospital.

Doctor’s care influences patient’s future

For the past 17 years Isabella “Bella” Peterson has been under the care of Blessing Health plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. Arshad Muzaffar, as he and his team repaired her cleft lip and alveolus. An alveolus is a gap in the gum line.

Meet a man at the heart of a Christmas miracle

Miracles can occur anywhere at any time. Ask Dean Woodruff. His miracle began in a cemetery three days before Christmas 2021.

Billing & Insurance - VA

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Blessing nurses on the COVID battle: “We adapt and we overcome”

Every Blessing Health System nurse played a vital role in responding to the COVID pandemic. However, care delivered in two locations drew a high level of attention – the Blessing Hospital Emergency Center and the Blessing Express Clinic. In both places throughout the pandemic, crowds of people arrived daily for testing or care, or both.

Walk-In Clinic nurse earns DAISY award

Megan Courtois, RN, Walk-In Clinic, became the 98th Blessing Hospital nurse to receive the international DAISY award during a ceremony on July 23, 2024, for her extraordinary nursing care.

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.

Billing & Insurance - Managed Medicaid Care Plans versus Medicare

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