Blessing Hospital offers many programs free to churches, clubs, and community organizations through the Speaker's Bureau Educational Series. (Programs to businesses and employee groups may be subject to a fee.) Topics are presented by health care experts and include programs on a variety of health related issues. The programs usually last 20 to 30 minutes followed by a question and answer period. 

Dealing with Death

• Blessing Hospice: Caring at the end of life
• Grief support: SHARE and HEAL
• Helping children handle grief
• Stages of grief

Emergency Medicine

• Advantages of Air Evac memberships
• CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver
• First Critical Hour: Signs of a heart attack
• First minutes: What to do until an ambulance arrives
• Hurry up and wait: Triage in the Emergency Center
• Stroke: Recognize and Respond

Health Services

• Arthritis: Signs, symptoms and treatments
• Blessing Home Care: Bringing care home
• Cancer Care at Blessing
• Cardiac Care at Blessing
• Gift of Life: Organ & Tissue Donation
• Managing Diabetes
• Rehabilitation Services
• Quincy's Healthcare History
• Understanding Advance Directives
• Volunteer opportunities at Blessing
• Wound Center Services 

Living Fit

• Gaining freedom from smoking
• Cholesterol: Know your number
• Cut the fat in your diet
• Exercise: Fact and fiction
• Healthy balance: Nutrition, exercise and stress management
• Nutritional guidelines for weight loss
• Understanding nutritional labeling

Mental Health

• Dealing with Conflict
• Depression across the lifespan
• Staying mentally healthy
• Stress Management
• Using Meditation to Reduce Stress

Spiritual Health

• Role of spirituality in health care
• Spiritual beliefs about organ donation

Women's Health

• Fibromyalgia: The Invisible Attacker
• Mammography: Early detection of breast cancer
• The importance of self breast exams
• Verbal Self-defense
• Violence Against Women
• Women and Heart Disease

Please complete this form and we will contact you about setting up a program.