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Illini Community Hospital announces $1.6 million construction project
Illini Community Hospital, Pittsfield, IL, will relocate and expand its walk-in clinic as part of a $1.6 million dollar project.
Blessing offers free colorectal cancer screening kits in March
In recognition of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, Blessing Health is providing free, take-home colorectal cancer screening kits to the public at locations in west central Illinois and northeast Missouri. The kits are available beginning Monday, March 2 and while supplies last.
Life changing events lead nurse to new mission
When you meet Jessica Nuebel for the first time, you could think that her 2017 breast cancer diagnosis was the driving force behind her decision to change jobs after more than 17 years, from a Blessing Hospital obstetrics and gynecology nurse to the navigator for patients of the Blessing Breast Center.
Get to know Jessica a little bit better and you will discover that another life-changing event, one that occurred before her diagnosis, which set Jessica on the path that would change radically the trajectory of her career.
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Doctors team up to uncover reason for woman’s vision problem
As is the case for other people, Stacey Mudd began having trouble with her vision when she reached the age of 57. “So, I went and had my eyes checked and got a pair of glasses,” the pharmacist with the James Cary Cancer Center, Hannibal, MO, said.
From mushroom hunting to world travel: Celebrating a life-changing anniversary
Mary Eustace is a leader. In December 2019, she was the first Blessing Hospital patient to have her damaged aortic heart value replaced through a minimally invasive procedure called Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, or TAVR. Over the next 12 months, 32 other people, ages 54 to 94 from throughout the Tri-State area, experienced the life-changing effects of TAVR.
Oh baby, how things have changed and how nurses are responding
Giving birth has changed over the years. New techniques and options allow families to be more involved with their care and plan their own experience. But not all recent changes have been as positive.
Three generations of a family find a second home at Blessing
When Deb Landacre, RN, got a job in maternity at Blessing in 1980, she had a plan. “I was only going to work for three months. I wanted a little Christmas money,” she said.
Minutes Matter: An Emergency Nurse’s Stroke Story
As a registered nurse in the Blessing Hospital Emergency Department, Kelli Terwelp has spent years caring for patients in critical moments. But what happens when a nurse finds herself on the other side of the experience?
Blessing Bariatric Institute earns national accreditation
The Blessing Bariatric Institute has earned the status of nationally accredited metabolic and bariatric surgical center from the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP®), a joint program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).