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Arrhythmia Care

Blessing Heart & Vascular Center is the only medical center in the region with an electrophysiology (EP) lab for the diagnosis and treatment of heart arrhythmias. Here, we quickly diagnose and treat abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias. Arrhythmia…

Vascular Surgery

If you need surgery for a vascular disorder such as stroke, aneurysm or an artery disease, you are in good hands at Blessing’s Heart & Vascular Center. Our specialized vascular surgery team has decades of experience. Vascular Surgery …

Here’s what happens when two experts in body work meet

Tom Hilbing knows how to fix a body – a vehicle body. In 1967 he joined Hilbing Autobody in Quincy and spent over 50 years making people’s vehicles look like new after an accident.

Blessing's longest-serving employee on record retires after 53 years

The longest serving employee on record at Blessing Hospital, Ann St. Clair, BSN, RN, CAPA, retires on March 20 after 53 years of service.

From tears to triumph: Diabetes diagnosis leads woman to make life-saving changes

Man finds life-changing pain relief by accident

Most people have experienced the agonizing pain of leg cramps, the sudden and involuntary contraction of a muscle. Charles Mast knows the feeling too well.

What this doctor does after work is a mystery

Which American mystery author do you think created the captivating scene below?

Barry Werries: Always on top of his game

The Emergency Center is safe: Heart attack and stroke are not

Two national surveys show the number of heart attacks and the number of stroke cases being treated in U.S. hospitals have dropped by nearly 40% since the pandemic was declared.

New heart procedure reduces stroke risk and fear

Talk with Jim Waterkotte for a while and you know he is one of a kind. But not in every way. Jim had taken a blood thinner for 10 years. So do as many as three million people each year in the United States. Jim took the blood thinner to control life-threatening clotting associated with his heart’s abnormal rhythm, known as atrial fibrillation (Afib).