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TV show features Blessing Surgical Services and its new ORs

Go inside Blessing’s hybrid and multipurpose operating rooms with a team of specialists on Network Knowledge’s “Illinois Stories.”

One of Blessing Health’s best employee recruitment and retention tools turns 50 years old

The idea led Blessing Hospital to success as a regional healthcare provider and made history, too.

Hospice nurse earns DAISY Award

April Grattan, RN, Blessing Hospice, became the 60th Blessing Hospital nurse to receive the international DAISY Award during a ceremony on May 25, 2021.

Heart nurse earns latest DAISY award

Ashley Bilgri, RN, Cardiovascular Unit, became the 71st Blessing Hospital nurse to receive the international DAISY Award during a ceremony on April 25, 2022.

Lack of family breast cancer history confounds survivor

Barbara “Babs” Herring of Hannibal learned something about breast cancer this past summer.

First baby of 2020 at Blessing Hospital

Kyla Abbey was the first baby of 2020 born at Blessing Hospital’s Blessed Beginnings maternity center, the daughter of Cole Abbey and Heather Osborne of Quincy. She was born at 4:21 am on January 1, 2020.

20 years + 30 seconds + 24 miles + 120 degrees = an exceptional accomplishment for this Blessing employee

Blessing Hospital Information Systems supervisor Jessica Dalheim did something this summer that few people ever attempt, let alone accomplish.

New procedure helps woman catch her breath and change her life

A minimally invasive lung procedure performed at Blessing Hospital, called BLVR, has given a 70-year-old grandmother her life back.

Teacher learns a life lesson

As a substitute teacher, Donia Gardner has to be prepared for a call to work at a moment’s notice. But even with 24 years’ experience there was no way to prepare for her day at Quincy’s Denman Elementary School on Friday, January 31, 2025.

When she needed cancer care, life-long nurse chose Blessing Health

Marty Frier invested her 40-year career in attending to the needs of others as a registered nurse.