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Heart Failure

Heart failure occurs when your heart cannot pump enough blood to meet your body’s needs. Heart failure is a progressive, irreversible disease that continues to weaken your heart over time. Heart Failure …

Know your options before taking a medical “road trip”

Learning you have a medical condition can be stressful. Believing you have to go out of town to receive the care you need – putting your life into the hands of a doctor and staff you don’t know at an unfamiliar hospital, away from your regular support system of family and friends – adds to that stress. Not to mention the hours on the road and precious days of care lost in-between appointments.

Blessing pharmacist co-authors published article

Abby Dunker, PharmD, Emergency Department Clinical Pharmacist, Blessing Hospital, co-authored an article published in the November 2016 issue of Hospital Pharmacy Journal.

Blessed Beginnings Secretary Receives "Who's Your Angel?" Award

Kristi Primm, Unit Secretary, Blessed Beginnings/Obstetrics, received a Who’s Your Angel award on September 4.

MEDICAL LAB TECHNICIAN (MLT) OR MEDICAL LAB SCIENTIST (MLS) - LABORATORY

**UP TO $20,000 SIGN ON BONUS AVAILABLE** STARTING RATE WITHOUT EXPERIENCE FOR MLT: $21.66 + $2.25 SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL IF APPLICABLE STARTING RATE WITHOUT EXPERIENCE FOR MLS: $27.66 + $3.50 SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL IF APPLICABLE FULL TIME; 40 HOURS;…

Halloween trip turns into nightmare for this husband and father

Josh Crabtree remembers he coughed one time as he drove with his wife and two children on a recent overnight Halloween trip to St. Louis. The 39-year-old believes the cough unleashed a bizarre chain of medical events.

Cancer Care

At Illini Community Hospital’s Casteel Center, we give our patients the high-quality medical oncology care you would expect in a large city. Our medical oncology providers are part of the comprehensive cancer care program at the Blessing Cancer…

After a decade of suffering, Baylis man celebrates a second chance at life

On April 5, 2025, Rev. Gary Dice will celebrate one year with his transplanted heart. He is thankful to God, to his family and friends, to the many members of his medical team and to someone he does not yet know, the individual - and their loved ones - who donated the heart that gave him his second chance at life.

Post Discharge Clinic

Our Post-Discharge Clinic provides care for patients age 18 years and older. In addition to hospital follow‑up visits, providers will also be able to complete pre‑operative clearances and college sports physicals.Services Provided:Post-hospital…

Singing the praises of the Radiation Oncology team – really!

Have you ever “sung someone’s praises”? You probably have, but may not be familiar with the phrase. Singing someone’s praises means to, “express enthusiastic approval or admiration of someone or something.” It does not require actual singing.