Allina News

[Fox 9 News, Aug. 9, 2010] Allina Medical Transportation Operations Supervisor Kyle Strege knows paramedics will be hearing a lot more calls for heat exhaustion as the Twin Cities heat wave stretches later into the week. Read the full story on myfoxtwincities.com.

[Fast Company, September 2010] Many patients at Allina needed narcotics to manage chronic pain due to back problems or arthritis. Unfortunately, some patients were misusing or reselling the drugs. Everyone agreed on the goal: eliminate narcotics misuse. But good intentions hadn’t been enough. Read the full article at fastcompany.com.

[KSTP-TV, Aug. 4, 2010] Laparoscopic, or minimally invasive, surgical techniques are making all kinds of medical procedures quicker and safer for patients. Allina Medical Clinic – Shakopee surgeon Dr. Jayson Dock talked with KSTP-TV’s Megan Newquist about just what laparoscopic surgery is and how it’s being used. Watch the interview below.

[Savage Pacer, Aug. 9, 2010] Two familiar medical clinics – Allina and St. Francis – have been inked into plans to construct a two-story building on the southwest corner of county roads 42 and 27. Mark Davis of Davis Real Estate Services Group LLC, said Allina will move its current Crossroads Clinic at the corner [...]

[Wright County Journal Press, Aug. 9, 2010] The first thing you notice upon entering the new Birth Center at Buffalo Hospital is the size. Long corridors and rows of hotel-like postpartum rooms are quite a contrast to the former Birth Center. The space for the Birth Center has nearly quadrupled from about 4,500 square feet [...]

[New Ulm Journal, August 4, 2010] New Ulm has been named a “Heart Safe” community by  Allina Hospitals and Clinics. Officials from Allina and New Ulm Medical Center gave the news and presented a certificate to the New Ulm City Council at its meeting on Tuesday. New Ulm is only the third community in Minnesota [...]

[Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, August 3, 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. The [...]

[Heart Matters, ReachMD XM Radio] Takotsubo, or stress-induced cardiomyopathy (also known as ‘broken heart syndrome’), was first recognized in Japan in the 1990s. Acute emotional or physical stress trigger the condition, which mimics the symptoms of a myocardial infarction (or MI). How can physicians differentiate between stress-induced cardiomyopathy and a more conventional MI, and how [...]