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Nurse reflects on “hugs and thank-you’s” as long career ends

The lesson Angie Hancox takes from Blessing Hospital is timeless when she retires on September 11 after a 41-year nursing career. “Treat others as you would want to be treated."

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…

Nurses deliver two lives thanks to “great catch”

At least 1.7 million adults in America will develop sepsis every year. Over the past year, more than 30 Blessing caregivers have been recognized as “Sepsis Heroes” for the early identification of sepsis in their patients.

New heart procedure reduces stroke risk and fear

Talk with Jim Waterkotte for a while and you know he is one of a kind. But not in every way. Jim had taken a blood thinner for 10 years. So do as many as three million people each year in the United States. Jim took the blood thinner to control life-threatening clotting associated with his heart’s abnormal rhythm, known as atrial fibrillation (Afib).

Financial Assistance Policy

Blessing Health System provides medical care regardless of the patient’s ability to pay.  A variety of payment options are offered to patients and their families. Special payment arrangements may apply to elective services.No one will be denied…

Financial Assistance

Blessing Health System provides medical care regardless of the patient’s ability to pay.  A variety of payment options are offered to patients and their families. Special payment arrangements may apply to elective services.No one will be denied…

3 Surgical unit nurse earns latest DAISY award

Kenzie Blentlinger, RN, 3 Surgical, became the 69th Blessing Hospital nurse to receive the international DAISY Award during a ceremony on February 24, 2022.

Man Praises Program that Saved his Life

Steve Goodman received a phone call in February 2020. It saved his life.

How much pain and suffering are too much?

All of us experience pain and suffering during our lives – some much more than others. This is Jessie Parker’s story of often times unbearable pain and what motivates her to continue living.

First outpatient RN receives DAISY Award

Ashley Sherwood, RN, Cardiology, became the first registered nurse from a Blessing Health outpatient department to receive the international DAISY award during a ceremony on February 26, 2024, for her extraordinary nursing care.