Allina News

[Coon Rapids Herald, Sept. 9, 2011]  Thanks to state-of-the-art software, a couple of fast-acting, quick-thinking IT staff members and expert medical care, when Samantha Robbins gave birth to little Emilynn via emergency C-section at Mercy Hospital Aug. 30, her husband, a soldier stationed in Kuwait, was right there by her side.  Read the article.

[KSTP-TV, Sept. 2, 2011] Emilynn Robbins’ birth was an international event but still remained a private family moment. Her dad, Nick, is serving in Kuwait . He was scheduled to be home for her birth via scheduled c-section in a couple of weeks, but Emilynn wasn’t waiting. That’s where Skype came into the picture. While [...]

[Star Tribune, July 27, 2011] Marcia Carlson, a licensed clinical social worker at Mercy Cancer Resource Center in Coon Rapids and the Virginia Piper Cancer Institute at Unity Hospital in Fridley, talks about her work. Click here to read the interview.

[KSTP.com, July 20, 2011] The Allina Hospitals & Clinics system has four top-ranking hospitals in the Twin Cities metro and two hospitals with specialty rankings on the national top 50 list. This is according to the U.S. News and World Report’s Best Hospitals. Read the article.

[Coon Rapids Herald, July 9, 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. Click here to read the article.

[Infection Control Today, June 14, 2011] Mercy Hospital, part of Allina Hospitals & Clinics, is one of only four hospitals in the U.S. to be awarded an Outstanding Leadership Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for achievements in eliminating two types of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Read full article in infectioncontroltoday.com.

[KSTP, June 1, 2011] Minnesota U.S. Senator Al Franken visited Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, Minn. to learn about the efforts to improve mental health care and discuss accountable care organizations. Sen. Franken met with Tom O’Connor, president of Mercy Hospital, Lori Wightman, president of Unity Hospital, Paul Goering, M.D., vice president of Allina Mental [...]

[Star Tribune, May 14, 2011] The recent round of firings at two Twin Cities hospitals offers up new evidence that health record snooping victims aren’t all VIPs. There wasn’t one famous person among the dozen young Twin Cities residents who developed dangerous reactions to a synthetic drug taken at a Blaine party back in March; [...]

[KSTP.com, March 30, 2011]  Mercy Hospital is getting national recognition. It was named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals by Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters evaluated hospital performance in ten areas including mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average patient stay, expenses, profitability, patient satisfaction, adherence to clinical standards of care, post-discharge mortality, and readmission rates for [...]

[Coon Rapids Herald, March 31, 2011] Ken Boelter, a 15-year veteran firefighter, is in the fight of his life after a stroke paralyzed the left side of his body last October. Boelter, captain of Coon Rapids Fire Department’s Station 1, was out fighting a house fire early last October. Boelter suddenly felt his left leg [...]

[Coon Rapids Herald, March 31, 2011] Fighting fires means saving lives, protecting property, halting damage. For Ken Boelter, fighting fires served as prelude to one of the toughest fights of his life. The 15-year veteran firefighter is currently in the fight of his life after a stroke paralyzed the left side of his body last [...]

[Twin Cities Business, March 31, 2011] The annual Thomson Reuters study of the “100 Top Hospitals” honored two Minnesota medical centers including Allina’s Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, recognized in the medium community hospitals category. Reuters evaluated 2,914 hospitals across the country on measures of overall organization performance  including patient care. U.S. News also ranked [...]