Maria Hillebrenner, RN, Blessing Hospital Surgery Center, became Blessing Hospital’s 105th DAISY award winner during a ceremony on February 19, 2025, for her extraordinary nursing care.
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Allison Schrand, patient access educator, Blessing Hospital, has met the requirements and passed the certification examination of the National Association of Healthcare Access Management to earn the status of Certified Healthcare Access Associate (CHAA).
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Progressive Care Unit CNA Amber Hudnut clocked out after work, but did not go home as most employees would. On this day she went to the bedside of a dying patient.
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Jerry Kaszynski knows how to keep the beat. For the past three years, the 75-year-old retired chemist from Hannibal has played bass guitar in the Southern Rail country music band – to the delight of line dancers from Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri to Riverside, Iowa, and many towns in the Tri-State area.
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Cindy Haxel, secretary, Denman Corporate Services, received the ICARE Award for Compassion during a surprise presentation on Monday, February 3.
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Ellie Hull and Macey McEuen, registered radiologic technologists specializing in computed tomography (CT) at Illini Community Hospital, have earned national certification in CT imaging from the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists.
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Kaleigh Roberts, CT technologist, joined Blessing Hospital in May 2024. Nine months later, February 3, 2025, she earned an ICARE Award for Compassion.
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The Blessing Heart & Vascular Center has been awarded Electrophysiology (EP) accreditation by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) for demonstrated expertise in and commitment to treating patients with abnormal heart rhythms, known as arrythmias.
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Abby Safar, RN, Surgical Services/Post Anesthesia Care Unit, made it her mission for her patient to receive the care he came for – no matter what it took. That passion and determination made her the latest ICARE award recipient, for Compassion, on January 30, 2025.
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Blessing Hospital is among 12 organizations in Illinois that has received a portion of $4.5 million in grants, through the state’s Birth Equity Initiative, to decrease pregnancy-related complications and deaths. Blessing received a $400,000 grant.
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