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Here’s what happens when two experts in body work meet

Tom Hilbing knows how to fix a body – a vehicle body. In 1967 he joined Hilbing Autobody in Quincy and spent over 50 years making people’s vehicles look like new after an accident.

There is no place like home

Meet two 20-something Pike County, IL, natives who represent everything that is right with healthcare today and inspire a healthy dose of hope for a future.

Finding hope - and a reason to laugh - after cancer

Dan Simbro has a contagious sense of humor. Ask him how many grandchildren he has and Dan will tell you “a bunch” because he’s afraid to give an exact number and forget someone. In the days before Easter 2022, at age 68, Dan dressed up in a bright pink bunny suit and passed out candy in public.

Hospice nurse earns DAISY award

Molly Beaver, BSN, RN, Blessing Hospice, became the 90th Blessing Hospital nurse to receive the international DAISY award for extraordinary nursing care during a ceremony on November 28, 2023.

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).

Endocrinology

Our endocrine system regulates hormones that act as messengers from one area of the body to another. The system includes the pancreas, thyroid, parathyroid, pineal, hypothalamus, adrenal and pituitary glands, and the ovaries and testes.…

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 System, which includes Blessing Hospital, Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing &…

Blessing Volunteers in Partnership (BVIP)

Blessing Volunteers in Partnership (BVIP)  The BVIP Board of Directors governs the Tea Room Café and Gifts and the day-to-day operations are managed by Blessing team members Tea Room Manager and the Director of Volunteer…

Blessing participates in new cancer treatment trial

The Blessing Cancer Center has been selected as one of 51 study locations worldwide participating in a new metastatic breast cancer clinical trial. Metastatic cancer has traveled to other parts of the body from its site of origination. It is estimated that 20-30 percent of all breast cancer cases will become metastatic. The clinical trial is studying the effectiveness, safety and tolerability of a first-of-its-kind medication, Enobosarm.

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.