Case Study
The Next Big Challenge
CASE STUDY The Next Big Challenge Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Ill., is a 340-bed teaching hospital with a medical staff of some 250 physicians and more than 2,000 employees. It is part of the two-hospital Blessing Health System, which has a physician group and a four-year nursing education program. Quincy, a city of 41,000, is on the Mississippi River, and is the economic hub of west-central Illinois. Blessing is the major health