Allina News

[WCCO Radio, Feb. 16, 2010] Can you die of a broken heart? Turns out you can according to a growing body of research. The latest study comes from Allina’s Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. MHI’s Dr. Scott Sharkey discussed that research on WCCO Radio’s Mondale & Jones program today. Listen below or at [...]

[WCCO Radio, Feb. 12, 2010] Former President Bill Clinton had two stents inserted into a coronary artery Thursday and was released from the hospital a day later. Cardiologist Kevin Graham, from Allina’s Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital visited with WCCO Radio’s Susie Jones and John Hines about the procedures performed on Clinton and [...]

[Isanti County News, Jan. 20, 2010] A doctor prescribes a long-lasting narcotic, such as Vicodin, Percocet or OxyContin, to a patient complaining of chronic pain. The patient, with a smaller dosage, faces an empty pill bottle in no time and is denied refills. A search then begins and evolves into a “shopping spree” at area [...]

[Owatonna People's Press, Feb. 12, 2010] Operations are running smoothly at the Owatonna Hospital, which relocated to 26th Street in October. So smoothly, in fact, that some of the patients who have been treated at the facility are coming back to volunteer their services. That’s one of the experiences that Sue Simons, volunteer services supervisor [...]

[Farmington Independent, Feb. 11, 2010] From the outside of the Feely Elevator silos, onlookers were left to wonder what was happening inside the silo where Mark Malecha was trapped. Inside, though, ALF (Apple Valley, Lakeville, Farmington) paramedics worked diligently to save Malecha not only from being crushed by the shifting corn, but from toxins that [...]

[MinnPost, Feb. 10, 2010] MinnPost columnist and Abbott Northwestern Hospital hospitalist Dr. Craig Bowron, writes this week on the departure of another Allina doctor heading home from Haiti: After spending the last two weeks working in a field hospital in Port-au-Prince, internist and pediatrician Dr. Peter Melchert is heading home today (see two previous posts [...]

[Wall Street Journal, Feb. 11. 2010] Two defibrillator brands made by Boston Scientific Corp. have a design flaw that can result in the devices delivering potentially life-threatening shocks to the hearts of patients, authors of a medical journal article say. The defect can cause the Cognis and Teligen brand defibrillators to deliver the shocks when [...]

[WCCO Radio, Feb. 10, 2010] February is Heart Month. Dr. Kevin Graham is a cardiologist and president of Allina’s Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. He talks with WCCO’s John Hines on a wide range of heart health issues including how vitamin supplements, including vitamin D, can improve how you feel and improve your [...]

[The Hospitalist, Feb. 10, 2010] A concerted effort to reduce patient falls in Minnesota hospitals culminated last year as the Gopher State reported zero fatal falls—a result heavily attributed to hospitalist efforts. A report last month from Minnesota health officials shows that no patients died from falls in 2009. It was the first fatality-free reporting [...]

[Northfield News, Feb. 9, 2010] Dr. Scott Koehler loves his job as a sports medicine specialist at Allina Medical Clinic in Northfield. He also realizes if he’s busy, that means somebody is hurt. For the second time in his medical career, Koehler is taking his talents to the biggest stage in the world. He applied [...]

[Allina Newsroom, Feb. 10, 2010] Allina Hospitals & Clinics’ United Hospital has once again earned the Gold Seal of Approval™ for health care quality. The Joint Commission, a national hospital accreditation agency, awarded United Hospital the Certification of Distinction for its Inpatient Diabetes care Inpatient Diabetes, one of only two hospitals in Minnesota to win [...]

[Natural Medicine Journal, Feb. 10, 2010] Lori Knutson, RN, BSN, HN-BC, is the Executive Director of the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing at Abbott Northwestern Hospital and holds the Brenden Leadership Chair in Integrative Medicine. She has developed the largest hospital-based integrative care program in the U.S. that includes: inpatient programs and services; [...]