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What does “exceptional care” look like?

Exceptional care looks different through the lens of each Blessing Health System affiliate. At Illini Community Hospital, exceptional care is being in the top 10% of critical access hospitals (CAHs) in the country for exceptional care transitions for all emergency department transfer patients, as recognized by the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Program (MBQIP).

How Blessing’s Express Clinic team handled COVID surges

The Blessing Express Clinic team will likely never forget January 2022. They saw more than 6,000 patients over those 31 days, mostly for COVID-19 testing due to the omicron variant. How was the team—including 2 RNs, 3 LPNs and 2 CMAs—able to meet that demand?

Talk about going the “extra mile”, meet a man who goes nearly 200 extra miles

Ray and Pam Smith pass other dermatology offices during their every-two-to-three month drive from their Lake of the Ozarks, MO, home to the office of Blessing Health dermatologist Elise Scoggin, DO, in Quincy.

Tinkerbell's Tale

National Stroke Awareness Month and Blessing Health’s observance of National Nurses Week began on a heartwarming note.

On the Road Again: Tinkerbell and Mark are Headed Home

Tinkerbell and her very grateful owner are on the road again.

Blessing Hospital earns fourth straight top safety score

For the fourth consecutive survey period, an independent national healthcare watchdog organization has given Blessing Hospital a grade of “A” for patient safety.

Meat manager battles pain until he got a “sign” in the breakroom

Tom Adam was looking forward to a dream vacation – Cancun, Mexico with his wife to celebrate their 20th anniversary and his 50th birthday. It was memorable all right, but for all the wrong reasons. “It was the worst pain I ever had,” said the 54-year-old meat manager from the County Market store in Palmyra, MO.

Blessing doctors help mother-of-the-bride-to-be recapture her “glow”

Marcia Sorrill will be glowing as she watches her daughter get married in December. Not the manufactured glow of a tanning bed, but the radiance that results from a mother’s love for and pride in her daughter, and from the skill of two Blessing doctors.

Psych tech earns Honey Bee award

Dain Duffy, psychiatric tech II, Adolescent Psychiatric Services, received Blessing Hospital’s 43rd Honey Bee award during a presentation on May 23, 2022.

New visitor registration process comes to Blessing Hospital on May 31

Blessing Hospital visitors will begin using an automated visitor and vendor registration process on Tuesday, May 31. It will allow hospital officials to know everyone who is in the building at any point in time, enhancing safety.