QUINCY, IL -- Blessing Health System has added several new online tools to help make it easier to find health and wellness information, pay bills and connect with family and friends during a significant health challenge.
“With our website improvements and our new Facebook page, Blessing Health System is the region’s premiere health resource,” said Lisa Neisen, director of Public Relations and Communications for Blessing Hospital. “We’re excited to offer a variety of interactive tools that can help people identify their health risks and meet their wellness goals, get tips for healthy living, learn about a new diagnosis, procedure or medication, and much more.”
‘Be Well’ Section of Website Includes Health Library & Wellness Guide A “Be Well” section has been added to the Blessing Health System website, www.blessinghealthsystem.org, which links people to a collection of offerings to keep them well. One item is a Health Library & Wellness Guide, which is a comprehensive health information resource with medically substantiated health and wellness information.
The guide features more than 90,000 content items, including:
A-Z disease and condition encyclopedias for adults and children; Test and procedures database; Drug reference covering 33,000 drugs and drug interaction checker; Descriptions of 102 herbs, vitamins and supplements; A wellness library with 1,700 articles; Health centers for diabetes, heart disease, pregnancy and newborns, cancer, and women’s health; and Interactive tools including calculators, quizzes and risk assessments.
The multimedia content includes 84 newsletter podcasts, 112 test and procedure podcasts, 43 patient education videos, 20 medical animations and three interactive risk assessments.
Blessing Health System Facebook Page Offers Wellness Tips, Videos, Recipes & More Blessing Health System’s Facebook Page, www.facebook.com/blessinghealthsystem, offers the latest news about all of the Health System’s entities, including information about upcoming events, free and low-cost screenings and new providers and procedures.
Those who “like” the Facebook page also will receive wellness tips, healthy recipes, how-to fitness videos, cooking demonstrations, and links to health-related articles from reputable sources. “We want to engage our community with our Facebook page,” Neisen said. “We are posting content multiple times a day, and hope that our ‘fans’ join in on the conversation. We want the page to be interactive, and we want to hear people’s questions, comments – and even their own tips about how to stay healthy and active.”
Blessing Health System also plans to launch a YouTube channel.
CaringBridge Partnership Helps Blessing Patients Connect with Families & Friends Blessing Health System and CaringBridge have partnered to offer a new avenue of support for individuals and families. CaringBridge is a nonprofit organization providing free websites that give patients and caregivers a place to provide health updates, post photos and receive messages of hope and encouragement in a guestbook.
Since the founding of CaringBridge in 1997, more than 254,000 CaringBridge websites have been created, and more than 1.1 billion people have visited these sites. Each day, over half-a-million people connect through CaringBridge to give their support to loved ones. To set up a CaringBridge site, visit www.blessinghealthsystem.org/caringbridge.
Online Bill Pay offers convenience for Blessing Hospital, Illini Community Hospital & Blessing Physician Services Patients Blessing Hospital, Illini Community Hospital and Blessing Physician Services now offer online bill pay services using Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express and most debit cards. Online bill pay is fast, free, secure and convenient. Blessing Hospital and Illini Community Hospital patients can pay bills online by simply entering the billing account number and the payment amount. The online bill system offered by Blessing Physician Services allows a patient to view the current bill, including itemized charges, any insurance payments credited to the account and the patient’s balance due. To use the system, the patient must enter date of birth and the billing account number.
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