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Rivercross Diagnostics celebrates anniversary, earns accreditation

A Blessing Health System laboratory with special testing technology located in Quincy celebrates its first anniversary July 15 with expanded services and a national accreditation.

Blessing cardiologist brings new care option to patients

People at risk for a stroke because of a blocked carotid artery have a new option for their care at the Blessing Heart & Vascular Center, thanks to Jeffrey Cook, MD, cardiologist, Blessing Physician Services.

Blessing is among first providers in nation to offer specialized X-ray technology

Shed No Tears For This Survivor

Bobbie Bright was born at Blessing Hospital. She eventually moved to Keokuk, Iowa, and built a life as a hairstylist for herself and her daughter. Sixty-seven years later, Bobbie is back at Blessing, a patient of the Blessing Cancer Center receiving…

Blessing Hospice helps unites couple one last time

Loving and caring. That’s how people who knew her describe Shirley McLaughlin. “She put everyone else before herself,” said one of Shirley’s four daughters, Kelly Sylvester.

How a woman’s “families” worked together when her heart needed care

Family means everything to Michelle Obert; that includes her nuclear family of husband John, to whom she has been married for 40 years, and seven children and five grandchildren; church family at St. Francis in Quincy and her work family of 40 years at Transitions of Western Illinois.

Living with Diabetes: Five Tips for a Healthier Holiday Season

If you have diabetes, and particularly if you suffer from a chronic wound, it’s important to eat mindfully and follow your treatment protocols. For smoother sailing, here are five helpful holiday tips for diabetics.

What’s that sound? It’s a colorectal cancer survivor!

If you hear shouting from the rooftops in and around New London, MO, don’t worry. It’s just Jennifer Epperson – a Blessing employee, Josh’s wife and Madison and Cal’s mom. She has every reason to shout from the rooftops.

Shared sacrifice defines pandemic for Blessing nurses

COVID-19 forced Morgan Colston, RN, to move out of her family’s home. “My mom provides in-home daycare. I moved out to prevent exposure,” said the Blessing Physician Services nurse. “It was a big change. My parents are still adjusting.”

Advice from a stage 3 breast cancer survivor

Joyce Mayfield began breast cancer treatment in January. At that time, Blessing Health surgeon Emmanuel Bessay offered her some advice.