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This gardener wears a lab coat (sometimes)
April 14 is National Gardening Day. What do you get when you mix a love for the land with a passion for helping people? You get Sara Martin, APRN-FNP, Nurse Practitioner, in Blessing’s Family Medicine Department.
Patient and nurse connect on a spiritual level, leading to DAISY award
Stormy Leazer, RN, and a patient she cared for believed a higher power brought them together. This exceptional bond led to Stormy receiving Blessing’s 118th DAISY award.
This is HOT and COOL and GENEROUS
The patients and staff of the Blessing Breast Center thank the customers and team at Peters Heating and Air Conditioning for their commitment to raising breast cancer awareness.
How a very smart person helped a friend find the road to recovery
No one should go through a medical crisis alone. But that is just what one local resident faced after a devasting injury.
Two Blessing Nurses Retire
Two long time Blessing Hospital employees are celebrating their retirement.
Patient’s pain leads Blessing urology team to take quick action
While having her appendix removed six years ago, Dina Carr learned she had a kidney problem. Each year the nurse from Chatham, IL, would have a kidney function test to monitor her condition, in which the tube that drains urine from one of her kidneys to her bladder was blocked.
A strong friendship leads to stronger hearts
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer Helen Adams Keller said that. Her insight describes the relationship between Joyce Hildebrand, Danny Vahlkamp and Rich Ellerman.
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.
Blessing Health Hannibal hosting no-cost skin cancer screening on May 1
Board-certified dermatologist, Susan Meidl, MD, FAAD, Blessing Health Hannibal, will conduct a no-cost American Academy of Dermatology Spot Skin Cancer Screening on Thursday, May 1, by appointment only.