[KDWA-AM, September 16, 2019]
For the 2019-2020 school year, Allina Health’s Change to Chill (CTC) School Partnership has expanded to include16 new area high schools, in addition to providing continued support to schools that participated in the Partnership last year. “Allina Health, through its CTC program, is helping teens manage stress, improve their mental well-being and build resiliency,” Susan Nygaard, Allina Health’s Manager of Community Health Improvement told KDWA Radio in Hastings.
September 16, 2019
[KMSP Fox 9, August 13, 2019]
This year non-profit Genesys Works will place more than 300 high schools seniors from underserved communities with 56 Twin Cities companies. Allina Health started taking Genesys Works interns with two last year and for its efforts won Genesys Works' Rookie of the Year award.
August 13, 2019
[Star Tribune, August 11, 2019]
Allina Health’s long-running Heart of New Ulm project is unique nationally in proving that a communitywide focus, led by a local hospital, could improve cardiac health. Allina invested $9 million in the 10-year project, which reduced the number of residents with high cholesterol, hypertension and smoking habits in New Ulm — a town known for the beers and brats of its Oktoberfest.
August 11, 2019
[Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, July 19, 2019]
The need for adolescent mental health programming emerged during Allina's Community Health Needs Assessment giving shape to the Change to Chill program.
July 19, 2019
[KSTP TV, May 23, 2019]
One in ten Minnesota families live with food insecurity. Allina Health joined with The Food Group to collect healthy foods at more than 50 Allina locations.
May 23, 2019
[MPR News, May 15, 2019]
This week, Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith spoke publicly for the first time about living with depression.
May 15, 2019
[Faribault Daily News, January 01, 0001]
Health goes beyond a person’s physical well-being. Allina Health has partnered with HealthFinders Collaborative to address patient needs beyond the clinic.
April 26, 2019
[Northfield News, April 26, 2019]
Seventy percent of teenagers say anxiety & depression are major problems among peers. Northfield HS has been selected to participate in Change to Chill.
April 26, 2019
[County News Review, April 25, 2019]
Sixty-eight community nonprofits and local government organizations are the newest recipients of Neighborhood Health Connection grants from Allina Health . The grants support on-going activities that promote social connections through healthy eating and physical activity among adults in local communities.
April 25, 2019
[Sun Focus, March 15, 2019]
Change to Chill, Allina Health’s award-winning mental well-being program, offers free training sessions to share the program’s techniques more widely.
March 15, 2019