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Blessing Health System hopes to expand garden areas

Blessing Health System contributed 264 poundsof produce to people in need during the 2018 growing season. By STEVE EIGHINGER Staff Writer | 217-221-3377 seighinger@whig.com | @StevieDirtWHIG

Local stroke care receives national recognition

The American Heart Association recognizes Blessing Hospital among the nation’s leading providers of stroke care. For the fourth consecutive year, the hospital earned the AHA’s Get With the Guidelines Gold level recognition. Specifically, Blessing received a 2024 Gold Plus Award for meeting or exceeding national core standard levels of care in the treatment of stroke patients for 2 consecutive calendar years or more.

Heard of sepsis? If not, please read this. It could save a life.

The Weigand family of Warsaw, IL, lived a nightmare. The nightmare had a name. Sepsis.

Blessing to offer employers COVID-19 vaccine

Blessing Health System has partnered with the Adams County Health Department to help with the mass vaccination effort, focusing on large employers for several manufacturing, retail and wholesale grocery businesses in Adams County.

Meet The Cleft Palate Team

Meet The Cleft Palate Team Cleft Lip and Palate Surgical TeamArshad Muzaffar, MD, FACS, FAAPPediatric Craniofacial Plastic SurgeonJennifer Hermann, BSN, RNFA, CNORRN Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery…

Psychiatrist, neurosurgeon and orthopedic surgeon join Blessing Health

The following doctors have joined Blessing Health:

150 Years - Stotts Family Pride Shines Bright At Blessing

As part of Blessing Hospital's celebration of its 150th anniversary, we're proud to share stories of generations of families who have made Blessing Hospital a part of their careers and life.

How a visit to the Blessing Express Clinic can make you smile

A doctor named William Osler was credited with having come up with the idea, a long time ago, that there was art and science involved in medicine – meaning that helping someone heal is about knowledge and skill, but also compassion and relationships.

These two words set the tone for same sex couple’s life in Pike County

Two words from her boss – shared nearly four years ago – are etched into the memory and onto the heart of Jenna Maki, Performance Excellence Coordinator at Illini Community Hospital in Pittsfield, IL. Jenna is the wife of another Illini employee, Laura Maki, Informatics Analyst. The couple has been together through civil union and then marriage, when it became legal for same sex couples, for 10 years.

Meat manager battles pain until he got a “sign” in the breakroom

Tom Adam was looking forward to a dream vacation – Cancun, Mexico with his wife to celebrate their 20th anniversary and his 50th birthday. It was memorable all right, but for all the wrong reasons. “It was the worst pain I ever had,” said the 54-year-old meat manager from the County Market store in Palmyra, MO.