Allina News

[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 [...]

[Fox 12 News, Mankato, Minn.] In order to get advice or a diagnosis on a minor medical condition, people are used to making an appointment and going to see their doctor. Now at New Ulm Medical Center, patients can take advantage of new, convenient services that allow them to check their symptoms and communicate with [...]

[Mankato Free Press, April 23, 2010] Your chance of dying from a heart attack, pneumonia or heart failure can be significantly different at hospitals just miles from each other. That’s the findings of the latest report from a federal agency that tracks what happens to the nation’s 44 million Medicare patients. Lori Wightman, president of [...]

[New Ulm Journal, April 24, 2010] Community garden plots are a great idea, and we are glad to see that idea taking root in New Ulm. Lonnie Luepke, with the help of his friend Bob Grussendorf, was plowing up plots on land owned by New Ulm Medical Center, near Oak Hills Living Center this week. [...]

[The New Ulm Journal, April 22, 2010] A retired school teacher is creating a community garden on New Ulm Medical Center property. Administrator Lori Wightman said she was pleasantly surprised to get a letter in the mail recently from Lonnie Luepke, asking if the land could be used for a community garden. “The hospital board [...]

[New Ulm Journal, April 16, 2010] While you might not consider New Ulm as a trend-setter, in some ways, this town just may be “ahead of the curve.” As anti-obesity efforts nationwide gain urgency, the New Ulm Medical Center is pointing to specific data that its DAAN program, now in its third year, may already [...]

[New Ulm Journal, March 24, 2010] The Heart of New Ulm program would receive $2 million in federal funds if Rep. Tim Walz’s 2011 appropriation requests are approved in Congress. The funding for the Heart of New Ulm is part of over $134 million in funding requests, or earmarks, that Walz is making for fiscal [...]

[New Ulm Journal, Feb. 18, 2010] Brown county received a mix of good and bad news Wednesday when a health rankings study was released by the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Each county was ranked within its state on how healthy people are and how long they live. [...]

[Eden Prairie News, Jan. 29, 2010] More couples are turning to natural family planning as a way to achieve or postpone a pregnancy. Whether for religious, health or environmental reasons, these couples are shying away from contraceptives and having the family they always wanted. Dr. Frani Knowles, a family medical physician at New Ulm Medical [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio-Midday, Jan. 18, 2010] On Minnesota Public Radio’s Midday program, U.S. Senator Al Franken fielded questions on a wide range topics including several on health care. During the program he cited Allina’s Heart of New Ulm program as an example of preventive health care that will improve health and save money. Listen to [...]

[New Ulm Journal, Jan. 12, 2010] About 300 patients of the New Ulm Medical Center’s Infusion Center and Oncology departments and their family members were treated to a turkey dinner Monday in the NUMC auditorium. The NUMC Foundation donated $1,000 for the meal and CashWise Foods of New Ulm also helped with the food. See [...]

[KNUJ-AM, Jan. 9, 2010] The New Ulm Medical Center hosted Congressman Tim Walz at the medical campus on Friday, January 8, to thank him for his work on behalf of the Heart of New Ulm project. Congressman Tim Walz helped secure a recent $250,000 congressional appropriation toward the Heart of New Ulm project. Hear the [...]

[Fox 12 News, Mankato, Jan. 8, 2010] The Heart of New Ulm, along with Congressman Tim Walz, celebrated a $250,000 federal appropriation that will be used to support local lifestyle programs. News 12′s Sara Miles tells us how the year-old program has already changed people’s lives. See the story at keyc.tv.

[The Journal, Jan. 9, 2010] The Heart of New Ulm project is planning on stepping up its efforts this year to bring New Ulm to a new level of health. Friday, the Heart of New Ulm, a ten-year initiative of Allina, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation and New Ulm Medical Center to eliminate heart attack deaths [...]

[New Ulm Journal, Jan. 2, 2010] The Heart of New Ulm, a project of Allina Hospitals & Clinics and New Ulm Medical Center to stamp out heart attack deaths in New Ulm over the next 10 years, and the $3.5 million surgical center expansion and remodeling at New Ulm Medical Center were voted two of [...]

[Positively Minnesota-DEED, Nov. 6, 2009] This partnership addresses the serious healthcare worker shortage faced by four rural healthcare facilities in Southern Minnesota – New Ulm Medical Center, Sleepy Eye Medical Center, Madelia Community Hospital and Oak Hills Living Center. South Central College will work with Ridgewater College and Hennepin Technical College to develop curriculum focusing [...]

[KEYC-TV, Dec. 16, 2009] Center for Disease Control says, heart disease is the number one cause of death for Americans. But Minnesota sees totally different numbers. Allina’s Heart of New Ulm project is working to lower that number more. New Ulm Medical Center Family Practitioner Dr. Charles Stephens says, “what we are trying to do [...]

[New Ulm Journal & KEYC-TV, Dec. 13, 2009] More than 600 runners and walkers competed in The Heart of New Ulm’s Jingle Bell Jam Saturday. The four-mile run/walk began and ended at Allina’s New Ulm Medical Center. Read the full story at www.nujournal.com and see pictures of the participants at cu.nujournal.com. You can also watch [...]

[New Ulm Journal, Nov. 14, 2009] As evidenced by the Heart of New Ulm Project Summit report provided to the public last weekend, the project definitely is off to a fast start, allowing those involved in the project to get more specific in 2010, the second year of a 10-year initiative to greatly reduce the [...]

[New Ulm Journal, Nov. 9, 2009] New Ulm Medical Center (NUMC) will conduct an H1N1 flu vaccine clinic on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 at 5 p.m. The clinic will go until 8 p.m. or until the supply of vaccine has been exhausted. The clinic will be held in the third floor hospital auditorium. Please use [...]

[New Ulm Journal, Nov. 5, 2009] Bob Harper, known as one of the trainers on the NBC show “The Biggest Loser,” is coming to New Ulm on Saturday to participate in the Heart of New Ulm’s Second Annual Heart Summit. The summit runs form 7-9 p.m. Saturday at the District 88 Administrative Center Auditorium, 15 [...]

[KEYC-TV, Nov. 4, 2009] Minnesota Senator Al Franken praised the Heart of New Ulm project while speaking to lawmakers on the Senate Floor about health care costs. New Ulm has teamed up with Allina Hospitals and Clinics and has made a commitment to reduce heart attacks over the next ten years. Senator Franken says initiatives [...]

[New Ulm Journal, Nov. 4, 2009] Minnesota U.S. Senator Al Franken delivered his second speech on the Senate floor Tuesday on the issue of Health Care, and New Ulm figured prominently in his remarks. As the Senate prepares to bring a health care reform bill to the floor, Franken invoked Minnesota’s leadership on the issue, [...]

[The New Ulm Journal, Oct. 27, 2009]  Bob Harper, health and motivational expert on NBC’s the Biggest Loser is the keynote speaker for the Second Annual Heart of New Ulm Summit on Saturday, Nov. 7 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the District Administrative Center Auditorium, 15 N. State St. The summit’s theme will be “Diagnosing [...]

[Allina News, Aug. 19, 2009] U.S. Sen. Al Franken made a brief stop at a Heart of New Ulm (HONU) project screening Wednesday, Aug. 19. Franken expressed an interest in learning more about the project from a preventive health care and best practice aspect, in light of the debate taking place nationwide about health care [...]