1313 pages found
Mystery solved: Surgeon diagnoses, treats icy injury
Kim Peters is one in a million. That is how many people the federal Centers for Disease Control estimates are injured each year as the result of falling on ice and snow. On an icy day and with her hands full, including the leash of her puppy, Kim slipped and fell down three stairs.
Nurse earns DAISY award for work on COVID 19 Hotline
Tammy Ruths, RN, Centralized Staffing and COVID-19 Hotline, became the 55th Blessing Hospital nurse to receive the international DAISY Award. She received the award during a ceremony on October 28, 2020.
Integrated Care: Mom finds life-saving help in a crisis
Seeking and receiving behavioral health care is as important as physical healthcare. Our Integrated Care team members provide short-term therapy support to patients working through various conditions.
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.
Blessing kidney specialists seeing patients in Macomb
Theseswi Pujar, MD, MBA, FACP, and Taylor Welch, APR-AGACNP, Blessing Hospital Nephrology department, are seeing patients monthly at the Macomb Clinic, 437 E. Grant Street.
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’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.
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).
Three nurse educators retire
Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences faculty members Sheila Capp Taber, PhD, RN; Deborah Race, PhD, RN; and Linda Burke, MSN, RN, have retired after a total of 101 years of service.