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Medical Oncology

The Blessing Cancer Center provides expert care and individualized treatment plans. Medical Oncology After a cancer diagnosis, one of the first doctors you meet will be a medical oncologist. Medical…

Cosmetic Procedures

Cosmetic Procedures Experience the Blessing Difference: Cosmetic ProceduresBlessing Health offers safe and effective procedures to combat the effects of aging. Treatments such as Botox® and other…

How we’re reducing your cost of healthcare

The Blessing Health System is the community’s health system - there are no far away corporate headquarters and no Wall Street executives to answer to. We not only serve, but also report to our communities. A challenge our communities face, as do all towns in America, is the expense of healthcare.

Lack of family breast cancer history confounds survivor

Barbara “Babs” Herring of Hannibal learned something about breast cancer this past summer.

Teacher learns it takes teamwork to treat cancer

Shari Kirtlink loved her career as a pre-kindergarten teacher at Carpenter’s Kids, a program of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Hannibal. All of a sudden, it was her students and their families making a difference in the 57-year-olds life, wearing “Team Shari” shirts and praying for her regularly after she had to leave teaching because of lung cancer that spread to her brain.

Can an email change your life? Wilma says yes!

Checking her emails one day this spring, a particular message caught the eye of 78-year-old Wilma Hathaway of Palmyra.

Illini Community Hospital gains honors for excellence in quality of care, top performance

PITTSFIELD, IL – The Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network (ICAHN) recently recognized Illini Community Hospital, Pittsfield, for its ongoing commitment to exceptional quality of care, during a ceremony held October 29th at the I-Hotel and Conference Center, Champaign, IL.

It was the smartest thing I ever said

John Craig has been hospitalized twice in his life; once when he was born and once when he almost died.

Northeast Missouri community welcomes new medical clinic

Officials with Scotland County Hospital in Memphis, Missouri; Blessing Health System in Quincy; the city of Edina and Knox County, cut the ribbon for a new medical clinic in Edina, Missouri, on Thursday, June 11.

How much pain and suffering are too much?

All of us experience pain and suffering during our lives – some much more than others. This is Jessie Parker’s story of often times unbearable pain and what motivates her to continue living.