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Woman uses creativity to express gratitude after terrifying experience
Anne Stupavsky uses words including “positive”, “nice”, “honest” and “candid” to describe herself.
Benefit for new mothers raises $4,000
People attending the inaugural Birth Trauma Awareness Dinner on July 22 to benefit local women raised $4,000.
Blessing doctors help mother-of-the-bride-to-be recapture her “glow”
Marcia Sorrill will be glowing as she watches her daughter get married in December. Not the manufactured glow of a tanning bed, but the radiance that results from a mother’s love for and pride in her daughter, and from the skill of two Blessing doctors.
Patient’s pain leads Blessing urology team to take quick action
While having her appendix removed six years ago, Dina Carr learned she had a kidney problem. Each year the nurse from Chatham, IL, would have a kidney function test to monitor her condition, in which the tube that drains urine from one of her kidneys to her bladder was blocked.
Meet two special ladies connected at the heart
Mary Eustace and Sandee Marcinek share a bond. While they didn’t know each other for the first 70-plus years of their lives, the first time they met, they felt a connection.
State commends Blessing trauma program after re-designation survey
Illinois Department of Public Health surveyors sited eight strengths of the Blessing Hospital Trauma Program and no opportunities for improvement after a recent survey.
Donate Life - Valerie Pryor
Donate Life - Valerie Pryor's Story
On August 20, 1995, the story of my brother’s life began. My mother had a tubal ligation and four years later, she found herself pregnant again. My parents each had two girls separately and together had myself.…
UnityPoint Health, Blessing Health System announce transition of Keokuk hospital
UnityPoint Health and Blessing Health System are announcing the organizations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) – a non-binding agreement – that outlines plans to transition the affiliation of UnityPoint Health-Keokuk to the Blessing Health System.
Blessing department earns rare certification
Patient safety at Blessing Health System attained another level of national recognition and earned Advanced Sterile Processing Certification from the international accrediting organization, DNV.