A new process at Blessing Health System will facilitate access to the COVID-19 outpatient drug Bamlanivimab. As supplies last, it will be made available to confirmed positive COVID patients who meet the drug’s required criteria.
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Two Blessing Hospital respiratory therapists were nominated for the department’s annual Respiratory Care Excellence award during the observance of National Respiratory Care Week 2020.
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Blessing Hospital administered the first dose of a new COVID-19 drug called Bamlanivimab to a patient on Wednesday, November 18, 2020.
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Hannibal Clinic’s Research Center has been approved by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as part of the federal Operation Warp Speed initiative, to participate in an outpatient COVID-19 treatment research trial.
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Blessing Health System’s COVID-19 Hotline nurses make calls to those who have pending COVID-19 tests and share the test results. The report is either “positive” or “negative.”
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The COVID-19 related patient surge that Blessing Health System leaders and staff have planned for since March has hit. Space at Blessing Hospital, and at hospitals throughout the region and across the country - is running very short with no end to the demand in sight.
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Illini Community Hospital has earned the 2020 IMEC Interest in Excellence Recognition award from the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC).
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Kim Peters is one in a million. That is how many people the federal Centers for Disease Control estimates are injured each year as the result of falling on ice and snow. On an icy day and with her hands full, including the leash of her puppy, Kim slipped and fell down three stairs.
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Whether it is charging the net on the tennis court to deliver a volley, or digging in the ground around her home to plant flowers, Deb Davis leads an active life. Pain tried to steal that from her.
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