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Blessing Health System selected to participate in national Rural Home Hospital project

Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health system innovation created by Harvard T. J. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts, has selected Blessing Health System to participate in the Rural Home Hospital project, a three year research study that will help to build, launch and evaluate a nationwide home-based healthcare program to serve rural residents across the country.

Blessing Career Care Program

“My managers have told me I have grown so much,” said Diana Weatherford, BSN, RN, Open Heart Surgery and Career Care participant (pictured above). The goal of Career Care is to continue to promote high-quality nursing care by providing…

Rivercross Diagnostics celebrates anniversary, earns accreditation

A Blessing Health System laboratory with special testing technology located in Quincy celebrates its first anniversary July 15 with expanded services and a national accreditation.

Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) is a comprehensive course to teach learners how to respond to cardiorespiratory emergencies using the systematic ACLS approach. ACLS provider candidates will learn, then practice, the key skills of basic and…

Blessing career education program reaches milestone

Blessing Hospital’s Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Training Program reached a milestone recently, when its 100th graduate passed the Illinois state certification examination.

Care Coordination staffer earns Honey Bee award

Amy Land, social services case worker, Care Coordination, Blessing Hospital/Blessing Health Hannibal, earned the 70th Honey Bee award during a surprise presentation on July 24. The Blessing Hospital Honey Bee award recognizes the exceptional service provided by support staff.

Emergency and Acute Care

As one of 52 critical access hospitals in the state of Illinois, Illini Community Hospital offers a 25-bed acute care inpatient unit and a 7-bed ER. Our inpatient unit cares for medical and surgical patients, with all types of health…

Man learns – and feels – how much knee replacement has improved

Daniel Wert has had both knees replaced. While the procedures took place several years apart, the difference in his experiences is best described as night and day.

Blessing Health installs public medication disposal containers

Residents of the Quincy and Pittsfield areas now have more options in which to safely and properly dispose of unneeded prescription and over-the-counter medications.

Blessing nurse earns advanced certification

Lacy Nichols, BSN, RN, Blessing Beginnings, the birth center of Blessing Hospital, has earned the status of Neonatal Touch and Massage Certified (NTMC) nurse.