[Star Tribune, June 13, 2015]
Any health care facility with “suites” in its name sounds like it’s got to be more of a hotel than a clinic. It’s true that Interlude Restorative Suites is a different kind of health care facility, but the most meaningful differences can’t be spotted from the parking lot.
June 13, 2015
[Star Tribune, May 17, 2015]
The paperwork stacks up slowly but steadily. Some months, the pile of appeals from insurance companies denying coverage of a medical implant for severe acid reflux is more than a foot high in Minneapolis surgeon Dr. Dan Dunn’s office.
May 17, 2015
[KARE-TV, October 28, 2014]
Unity Hospital in Fridley is one of four Minnesota hospitals designated to care for Ebola patients. It's all part of the state's coordinated strategy to handle the virus if it arrives here.
October 28, 2014
[Star Tribune, January 23, 2014]
While acknowledging that one error is too many, hospital officials said patients are safer than they were 10 years ago when Minnesota first started publicly listing hospitals that committed any of 28 adverse events, also known as “never events” because they are considered preventable. Surgeries to the wrong body part, for example, declined from 31 three years ago to 17 last year.
January 23, 2014
[Star Tribune, August 07, 2013]
Two major players in Minnesota health care have teamed up on a new insurance plan they say removes obstacles that keep people from getting the best care. The plan that Allina Health and insurer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota unveiled Tuesday offers a handful of free office visits plus full coverage of many prescription drugs and lab screenings.
August 07, 2013
[Isanti County News, June 05, 2013]
With more than more than 25 years of health care leadership experience, Gary Shaw is excited to begin as president of Cambridge Medical Center , part of Allina Health . Shaw, who began in his position May 6, has been busy making his way around the community and recently visited with the Cambridge-Isanti Rotary Club.
June 07, 2013
[New Ulm Journal, May 02, 2013]
Roger Lindholm , M.D., New Ulm, received the 2013 Teacher of the Year Award from the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP). Lindholm is a family physician at the New Ulm Medical Center , part of Allina Health .
May 08, 2013
[Star Tribune, February 10, 2013]
Minnesota legislators rekindled the debate over tobacco taxes on Thursday as a House committee considered a proposal to vastly increase the cost of cigarettes. "This bill will ensure that I will deliver less bad news to my patients," said Dr. Courtney Jordan Baechler, a cardiologist and vice president of the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing, part of Allina Health.
February 11, 2013
[Pioneer Press, May 22, 2012]
The chief executive officer of St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul is leaving the HealthEast system for a job running Mercy Hospital, part of Allina Health, in Coon Rapids, Minn. Sara Criger has held the top position at St. Joseph's for five years.
May 22, 2012
[HealthLeaders, January 01, 0001]
About three years ago two rival Minnesota health systems—HealthPartners and Allina Health—began exploring how they could combine their resources to accomplish together what they couldn't do alone. The two formed Northwest Metro Alliance to focus on achieving the triple-aim of healthcare—better care, better health, and lower cost—for 27,000 high-risk HealthPartners commercial members who live in the northwestern suburbs of Minneapolis and receive their medical care at Mercy Hospital, part of Allina Health, or at the nine local medical clinics operated by either HealthPartners or Allina.
May 18, 2012