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Blessing Hospital to use state grant for new programs to improve at-risk pregnancy outcomes
Blessing Hospital is among 12 organizations in Illinois that has received a portion of $4.5 million in grants, through the state’s Birth Equity Initiative, to decrease pregnancy-related complications and deaths. Blessing received a $400,000 grant.
Blessing Hospital employee retires after 16 years of service
Trudy Baze, unit secretary, Skilled Nursing Unit (SNU), Blessing Hospital, retires December 31, 2024, after 16 years of service.
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.
Blessing Breast Center is first in tri-states to offer new, more comfortable mammogram with 3D imaging service
The newly acquired SmartCurve™ breast stabilization system improves patient comfort without compromising image quality. The technology has the potential to assist women who have reported avoiding regular mammograms due in large part to the fear of discomfort associated with breast compression.
How a woman’s “families” worked together when her heart needed care
Family means everything to Michelle Obert; that includes her nuclear family of husband John, to whom she has been married for 40 years, and seven children and five grandchildren; church family at St. Francis in Quincy and her work family of 40 years at Transitions of Western Illinois.
How a nasal spray is saving lives
Blessing Outpatient Behavioral Health Services has been offering a new therapy with a medication called Spravato, a nasal spray used to treat depression.
Illness increases bring masks back to Blessing
Effective Monday, December 5, all patients and visitors entering any Blessing Health clinic or hospital in the region must wear a mask for the protection of patients, visitors and employees as respiratory illness levels rise.