[COON RAPIDS HERALD, July 09, 2011]
A new partnership between Allina Hospitals & Clinics and Life Time Fitness includes MyHealthCheck, a service available to Allina employees. It gives employees a health score through testing their LDL/HDL ratio, glucose, triglycerides, body composition, tobacco use and blood pressure.
July 11, 2011
[Allina Newsroom, April 11, 2011]
Allina's United Hospital will celebrate its new emergency department, the Peter J. King Emergency Care Center , on Friday, April 15, with an open house .
April 12, 2011
[Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, January 05, 2011]
Allina Medical Clinic has promoted from within to fill its chief medical officer position. The clinics operation, which has 45 clinics in Minnesota and western Wisconsin, named Dr. Rod Christensen to the position.
January 05, 2011
[Allina Newsroom, December 21, 2010]
Allina's Mercy Hospital has been verified as a Level Two Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons. Level Two accreditation means that the emergency department and other areas of Mercy are capable of caring for complex trauma patients.
December 21, 2010
[Allina Newsroom, November 03, 2010]
Piper Breast Center at the Virginia Piper Cancer Institute – Abbott Northwestern has relocated to Suite 402 in the Piper Building, 913 E. 26 th St. in Minneapolis.
November 03, 2010
[Allina Newsroom, September 27, 2010]
Mercy Hospital's heart surgery group, Twin Cities Heart and Lung, is among the top 50 in the nation, according to Consumer Reports October 2010 issue.
September 28, 2010
[Allina Newsroom, August 16, 2010]
Allina Medical Clinic – Northfield now offers new ways to interact online with your doctor. Instead of taking time out of your busy schedule to go to the clinic, you can log onto MyChart for e-visits and medical messaging.
August 16, 2010
[Allina Newsroom, August 09, 2010]
Anneliese Barnes of Albertville, Minnesota, gave birth to the first baby on opening day at Buffalo Hospital's new Birth Center . Baby boy Pierre Barnes was born August 2 at 4:32 p.m. Labor and delivery went smoothly for mom and baby who weighed eight pounds and four ounces, said Birth Center Manager Cindy Oquist, RN.
August 11, 2010
[Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, August 03, 2010]
The George Family Foundation, the foundation launched by former Medtronic CEO Bill George and his wife, has donated $556,000 to the University of Minnesota to provide nurses with integrative-medicine training. The dollars will go to the university's Center for Spirituality & Healing and the School of Nursing.
August 03, 2010
[Allina Newsroom, May 07, 2010]
Allina’s Mercy, Unity and United Hospitals have set special events throughout May for the public to learn about stroke, stroke prevention and receive special low-cost stroke screenings. “Stroke is, essentially, a brain attack, cutting off vital blood flow and oxygen to the brain,” says Penny Wheeler, MD, Allina Hospitals & Clinics chief clinical officer.
May 07, 2010