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Pharmacy tech earns Honey Bee award

Sherri Ritter, pharmacy tech, became Blessing Hospital’s 50th Honey Bee award winner during a presentation on November 9.

Celebration leads Blessing nurses to Horizons Community Outreach

Blessing Hospital nurses donated 200 pounds of food and delivered it to Horizons food pantry on May 8, 2019, as part of their 2019 National Nurses Week celebration. Then, a group of those nurses put on hairnets and plastic gloves and served lunch to…

Behavioral therapist earns Honey Bee award

Shelby Emerick, inpatient intervention therapist, Adolescent Psychiatric Services, earned Blessing Hospital’s 65th Honey Bee award during a surprise presentation on February 28. The Blessing Hospital Honey Bee award recognizes the exceptional service provided by support staff.

One nurse’s journey to the bedside: “I wish I would have done it earlier”

Bev Armstrong’s path to a nursing career began late in life, with the arrival of her granddaughter. Born in Keokuk, Iowa, with a hematoma, the baby was transferred to the neonatal intensive care unit in Iowa City.

Centralized Staffing nurse earns DAISY award

Meredith Hyer RN, Centralized Staffing, became the 88th Blessing Hospital nurse to receive the international DAISY award during a ceremony on September 18, 2023.

Blessing cardiac caregiver passes national registry examination

Lincoln Smith, LPN, Non-Invasive Cardiology, Blessing Hospital, recently passed the national examination and is a registered cardiac sonographer (RCS).

Blessing Hospital Laboratory participates in COVID-19 research project

The Blessing Hospital Laboratory is one of eight in a nine-state region to participate in a COVID-19 antibody testing research project with Roche, an international pharmaceutical and diagnostics company.

Blessing awarded federal grant to address vaccine confidence in rural areas

Blessing Health System has received a Rural Health Vaccine Confidence Program Grant in the amount of $445,761 from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

Celebrating Black History Month: Dr. Bessay's Story

Emmanuel Bessay typifies—and then some—the nontraditional Northwestern medical student. Like the 30 other members of the Class of 2010 who didn’t go directly from their undergraduate alma maters to the Feinberg School of Medicine, this 36-year-old West African native took a different and somewhat harrowing route to medical school.