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Dedication, divine intervention and determination leads woman to Blessing Cancer Center
As a wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Jean Abbott has had her share of experience with illnesses and accidents. She knows what she wants and needs from healthcare providers – answers. “It’s my body. I want to know what you are going to put in to it and why you are going to put it in there,” the 68-year-old Quincy resident said.
Blessing Hospital Laboratory participates in COVID-19 research project
The Blessing Hospital Laboratory is one of eight in a nine-state region to participate in a COVID-19 antibody testing research project with Roche, an international pharmaceutical and diagnostics company.
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.
150 Years - A History of Care and Compassion
Blessing Hospital, Circa 1890
Blessing Hospital traces its roots to 1873 and a group called “The Charitable Aid and Hospital Association.”Members of the association felt there was no place to go in the city of Quincy for the sick poor or sick…
Palmyra man finds life-changing care in his own backyard
Dustin Day moved his family – teen-age daughter and wife – from southern California to Palmyra, MO, to be closer to his wife’s family. The move had some unexpected benefits for Dustin including saving his life.
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.
Public invited to tour Blessing Cancer Center Hannibal on 11/29
The public is invited to tour the Blessing Cancer Center Hannibal on Wednesday, November 29. A ribbon cutting will be held at 4 pm with tours of the new facility offered until 6 pm. The Blessing Cancer Center Hannibal is located inside the South Entrance to the Blessing Health Hannibal campus.
Man makes service a lifetime commitment
For his 78 years on this planet, the following themes connect different times in John Summers’ life – volunteerism, service to others and communication.
How Blessing’s Express Clinic team handled COVID surges
The Blessing Express Clinic team will likely never forget January 2022. They saw more than 6,000 patients over those 31 days, mostly for COVID-19 testing due to the omicron variant. How was the team—including 2 RNs, 3 LPNs and 2 CMAs—able to meet that demand?
Nurses play key role in operating new life-support system
National statistics from the height of the COVID-19 pandemic showed that 50%-60% of patients placed on the life-support system known as ECMO, short for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, survived at least 90 days.