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Lymphedema

Some types of cancer treatments can cause side effects afterward. If you experience pain and swelling in your arm or leg after treatment, the specialists at Blessing Cancer Center can help you manage it. We offer treatment to help relieve side…

Know your options before taking a medical “road trip”

Learning you have a medical condition can be stressful. Believing you have to go out of town to receive the care you need – putting your life into the hands of a doctor and staff you don’t know at an unfamiliar hospital, away from your regular support system of family and friends – adds to that stress. Not to mention the hours on the road and precious days of care lost in-between appointments.

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.

Nurse practitioners helping to meet a growing need in primary care

Maria Baker faced a challenge becoming more common these days nationwide. She lost her primary care doctor when he ended his practice unexpectedly.

Lack of family breast cancer history confounds survivor

Barbara “Babs” Herring of Hannibal learned something about breast cancer this past summer.

Immediate Care

Immediate Care Blessing Health System offers access to high quality healthcare and outstanding customer service you expect from Blessing at our immediate care clinics at a location nearest you with no…

How a Conversation Between Strangers Saved a War Veteran's Life

A telephone call from a fellow veteran (but a complete stranger) helped convince Jim Nauert to go through with a lifesaving heart procedure.

Patient Family Advisory Form

Experience the Blessing Difference: Patient and Family Advisory Council At Blessing Health System we want members of our community to work with us to help us achieve our mission and vision by creating an environment where patients, families,…

Speech Therapy Services

Speech Therapy Services Speech Therapy Services We Offer Blessing’s expert care team offers a full range of outpatient speech therapy services at our main campus. Our speech-language pathologists are…

Donor Stories - Rebecca Phillips

Organ donors are so important to me.  My mom, one of my brothers, and I are all recipients of corneal transplants.  We have a hereditary disease called Fuchs dystrophy. Without the gift of sight, I would not be able to work, drive or enjoy…