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Heart of New Ulm project shows early promise
[Mankato Free Press, April 5, 2011] A 10-year community initiative to prevent the occurrence of heart attacks in New Ulm has produced some early encouraging results. The Heart of New Ulm Project is sponsored by Allina Hospitals & Clinics’ Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. A study shows a 24 percent drop in the number of acute [...]
Posted: April 6th, 2011, 7:13 am under Allina System, Center for Innovation, community service, heart health, Heart of New Ulm, Mankato Free Press, Minneapolis Heart Institute, New Ulm Medical Center, newspapers, _.
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New Ulm Medical Center outcomes tracked on Web
[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 [...]
Posted: April 26th, 2010, 9:38 am under Mankato Free Press, New Ulm Medical Center, newspapers, _.
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Almost $2M for local projects
[Mankato Free Press, Dec. 14, 2009] The Mankato area will receive a bit less than $2 million in direct appropriations from a massive federal funding bill if President Obama signs it into law. Included in the bill is $250,000 for the Heart of New Ulm project, an experiment in identifying residents who are at risk [...]
Posted: December 14th, 2009, 7:33 pm under heart health, Heart of New Ulm, Mankato Free Press, _.
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