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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.
Blessing Health Hannibal breast biopsy technology earns national accreditation
Blessing Health Hannibal has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in stereotactic breast biopsy as the result of a recent review by the American College of Radiology (ACR), earning the organization’s gold seal of accreditation.
Getting outpatient lab testing done gets easier on March 4
People in the Illini Community Hospital area who need lab testing have a new option beginning March 4. Illini Express Clinic will provide pre-registered patients their outpatient lab testing in the Clinic’s drive through bay, instead of the person having to go the laboratory inside the hospital during the hours they are open.
Blessing Hospital organ and tissue donation efforts earn national recognition
For the second year in a row, Blessing Hospital and its Life Team have been awarded Platinum recognition from the federal Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) and Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network for “saving and healing lives by encouraging their employees and communities to register as organ, eye and tissue donors” through the National Hospital Organ Donation Campaign.
Through helping others, woman replaces grief with joy and anger with peace
Three years ago, a tidal wave of nearly unbearable grief and anger flooded Victoria Marten Haxel’s world.
Prostate cancer patients have access to advance testing at Blessing Health
Blessing Health urologist Dr. David Lieber sees the health system embracing its responsibility to cancer patients, their loved ones, and their providers.
Blessing EP Lab team celebrates 10 years of care with a FIRST!
A Blessing patient seeking care for atrial fibrillation became one of the first patients in the country to find the life-improving help they needed using brand new technology.
Update: All Clear on Lockdown of Blessing Hospital at 11th Street
The lockdown of Blessing Hospital’s 11th Street campus and the Blessing Health Center has been lifted. The threat has been resolved and those entering the buildings will no longer be screened.