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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.
The Experience is Part of the Care We Deliver
There is an item on the To-Do List of Blessing Health System employees that is not on most other lists—making true human connections with each person served every day.
One nurse’s journey to the bedside: “I wish I would have done it earlier”
Bev Armstrong’s path to a nursing career began late in life, with the arrival of her granddaughter. Born in Keokuk, Iowa, with a hematoma, the baby was transferred to the neonatal intensive care unit in Iowa City.
A life-long cough may have saved this woman’s life
Candy Tretter has enjoyed good health for most of her life, except for what she calls “this stupid little cough.”
Who's Your Angel Award - Lauren
CAREGIVER APPRECIATION: Lauren
"Lauren deserves this award because she is literally an angel on earth. Lauren is not just a nurse that goes above and beyond with her care and compassion but you can tell she is an amazing wife and mother…
Blessing Health System leader publishes book chapter
Dr. Rafferty’s contribution to the book covers trends in medical tourism and associated developments.
Meet a lady who turns up the heat
According to caregiver.com, as we age our bodies become sensitive to cold temperature. Among the reasons for that is a decrease in the metabolic rate that leaves aging bodies unable to generate enough heat to help maintain the normal temperature of 98.6 degree.
This is not your typical “first-ever” surgery
The words printed on Marla Harper’s shirt said it all, “Think Happy Thoughts.” A week from the day she wore the shirt, Marla would have a mastectomy. In her 68 years of life, this would be her first surgery.
About The Blessing Foundation
ABOUT THE BLESSING FOUNDATIONFounded in 1983, The Blessing Foundation raises, maintains and disburses charitably donated funds for the benefit of the Blessing Health SystemMISSIONTo improve the health of our communitiesVISIONBlessing Health System…
Benefit for new mothers raises $4,000
People attending the inaugural Birth Trauma Awareness Dinner on July 22 to benefit local women raised $4,000.