Allina News

[Star Tribune, April 14, 2012] Allina Hospitals and Clinics has broken ground on a new emergency department at WestHealth in Plymouth. They’re building an 18,000 square-foot building to offer a 24-hour, full-service emergency department. It will be staffed by physicians from Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Allina officials said the expansion allows the hospital to treat patients [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio, April 12, 2012] Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis is one of 22 hospitals across the country being asked to get rid of its McDonald’s restaurant. Corporate Accountability International, a corporate watchdog group that has gone after companies such as Coca-Cola, said hospitals shouldn’t be letting McDonald’s market unhealthy foods in health care [...]

[ABC Newspapers, April 12, 2012] Lions and Lioness clubs and Allina have provided screenings in health classes at Anoka and Coon Rapids high schools. The screenings not only made health lessons personal to students, they also served as a way to identify health issues requiring attention. This turned out to be the case for an Anoka [...]

[ABC Newspapers, April 12, 2012] The stars were aligned over Coon Rapids one morning in February. So much so that Mary Rosemark, 49, Coon Rapids, survived a pulmonary embolism thank to the swift action of her husband, Dan Rosemark, an Allina EMS crew, and emergency responders from several agencies. The emergency responders from Allina, both [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio, March 26, 2012] There’s new research showing that people suffering from heart disease might be able to use their own stem cells to repair the damaged areas of their heart. The study was conducted by a network of five research facilities, including the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Timothy Henry, [...]

[Fox 9 News, March 22, 2012] Two men — one a doctor and the other a banker — both shared a love of baskeball, but neither could have imagined they would have shared a moment that would lead one to save the other’s life. Dr. Frank Anderson’s love for basketball may have saved his life. [...]

[Star Tribune, March 8, 2011] Anoka High School sophomore Gavin Putt took a pass on a medical screening offered in his health class, Healthy Living, last fall. His teacher this trimester made the in-class screenings mandatory, and for Putt, it may have been a lifesaver. His blood pressure reading came in high — 183/86 — and [...]

[Pioneer Press, Feb. 21. 2012] Where can you go to fix a broken heart? Allina’s ambulance service is working with a Florida company to answer the question with a map of all automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in the Twin Cities. With the map and an electronic system for alerting good Samaritans, the emergency call center [...]

[Star Tribune, Feb. 19, 2012] Today’s grandparents are getting schooled on the changes in child-rearing since they raised their own families. Prenatal classes for grandparents are designed to give expecting grandparents skills that combine their wealth of knowledge and experience with modern ideas and practices. About a dozen grandparents gathered at United Hospital in St. [...]

[KSTP-TV, Feb 16, 2012] Researchers at Dartmouth College found that some brands of baby formula and energy bars contain arsenic. KSTP-TV talked with Allina dietician Susan Lundy about the potential dangers. Watch the full story here.

[KARE 11, Feb. 14, 2012] Allina Medical Transportation is the first EMS service in the nation linked to a national program to help cardiac arrest victims. The program is called AED Link and it is aimed at getting defibrillators to cardiac patients faster. Doctors say when someone goes into cardiac arrest they have only a [...]

[Star Tribune, Feb. 12, 2012] Hospitals are paying widely varying prices for the same implantable medical devices, according to a new study that suggests that secretive sales agreements prevent many buyers from getting the best deals. The report from the U.S. General Accounting Office — which turned up a difference of more than $8,000 for [...]