Allina News

[CTN News, Aug. 26, 2011] Allina’s Unity Hospital is taking another big step in its push to increase patient wellness. Hospital officials cut the ribbon on a new walking path that goes around Unity.  Watch the story on CTN here. The story is 11:30 minutes in from beginning of the newscast.

[TPT, Aug, 26, 2011] Allina Hospitals & Clinics is a partner in a three year program called Honoring Choices. Its goal is to get Minnesotans talking and planning so families are prepared when dealing with end-of-life issues. Allina’s Sandy Schellinger talked about that with TPT Almanac’s Eric Eskola.

[KARE11, Aug. 26, 2011] Colleen Dobie, Allina Medical Clinic certified nurse practitioner, was at the KARE Barn this morning to discuss childhood obesity and how families can make healthy food choices as kids prepare to go back-to-school. Allina clinics provide primary care and specialty services in more than 50 locations throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin. [...]

[Pioneer Press, August 18, 2011] Chris Evans wants to qualify for a health plan with a lower deductible next year. So the St. Paul man spent five minutes this week with a toothbrush-shaped swab tucked between his cheek and gums as part of a tobacco-use screening test at United Hospital. This year, Allina joins a [...]

[Sun Focus, Aug. 17, 2011] Unity Hospital‘s garden plots, 15-by-20-feet in size, are tilled every spring and are open for use May through October. Previously, 40 plots were available to the public, and those plots were full for the first two years the gardens were open. This spring, Unity added 30 more plots to the [...]

[Sun Focus, Aug. 17, 2011] Rosemary Esler has one of the 70 community garden plots on Allina’s Unity Hospital campus. She is the board chair of the North Suburban Hospital District and served on the Northwest Community Health Board four years ago. The focus of the group’s efforts was how to encourage the community—and adults, specifically—to [...]

[Health Behavior News, Aug. 18, 2011] U.S. health care workers, especially doctors and nurses, use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) far more than do workers in other fields, according to a new study. CAM includes diverse therapies outside the realm of conventional medicine. Overall, 76 percent of health care workers report CAM usage, compared with [...]

(KSTP.com, Aug. 17, 2011) Unity Hospital in Fridley is celebrating the opening of a community wellness path with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday Aug. 24, 2011.  Read the story.

[Coon Rapids Herald, Aug. 17,2011] When intensive care unit (ICU) nurse Chris Olson left Mercy Hospital in 2007 to serve with the U.S. Navy in Germany, Mercy Hospital didn’t leave him behind. Olson’s coworkers kept in contact with him and his family, and Mercy Hospital gave Olson his job back in 2011 when he returned [...]

[Star Tribune, August 12, 2011] It’s a question that some patients are afraid to ask: What are my chances of dying on the operating table? Now, believe it or not, there’s an app for that. Dr. Frazier Eales, a heart surgeon at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, hadn’t seen the app, but he loved the [...]

[KSTP & KARE11, Aug. 11, 2011] School is not yet in session but some St. Paul student athletes took a test Thursday. The test wasn’t about their grades but about their safety after a concussion. Cretin-Derham Hall along with Allina Hospitals (what you should know about concussions in sports) and a grant from Abbott Northwestern [...]

[Anoka County Union Aug. 11, 2011} The Penny George Institute for Health and Healing at Allina’s Unity Hospital campus now offers a holistic approach to health care on an outpatient basis. But you don’t have to be a patient to benefit from its healing services. Services are open to the public. Read the article.