Allina News

[Pioneer Press, Feb. 26, 2012] Almost two years ago, Roseville Area High School student Claire Frick went to the emergency room with unusual bruises. She was diagnosed with a rare and deadly childhood cancer: Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. To make matters worse, Claire’s mother, Jane Frick, was diagnosed with breast cancer in October. Both Claire and [...]

[Star News, Feb. 24, 2012] It’s hard to imagine, but an Otsego man who went into cardiac arrest while driving this past week was actually pretty lucky. Almond Drone, 52, attracted the attention of what turned out to be an impromptu medical team. “This has to be a God thing,” said Cheryl Jarvis, a resident [...]

[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. [...]

[Star Tribune, Feb. 17, 2012] Construction is underway at the Mother Baby Center, a joint venture between Allina‘s Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Children’s Hospitals and Clinics in south Minneapolis. The $50 million birthing center is wedged into tight quarters on the Abbott-Children’s campus. It will keep parents and their struggling babies in need of intensive [...]

[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 [...]

[Star Tribune, Feb. 12, 2012] Dr. Greg Plotnikoff has spent more than a decade evangelizing about the health benefits of vitamin D to his medical colleagues across the globe. Now the Allina Health doctor at Abbott Northwestern Hospital‘s Penney George Institute for Health and Healing is turning to corporate America, hoping his message will have new [...]

[Star Tribune, Feb 8, 2012] Allina Hospitals and Clinicsis changing its name to reflect a new mission that shifts the emphasis away from places we go when we’re sick and onto disease prevention and personal vitality. The new moniker — Allina Health — has been discussed internally with employees for several months, and now it’s [...]

[Star Tribune, Jan. 30, 2012] As physicians, nurses and technicians looked on, Dr. Benjamin Crandall and Dr. Josser Delgado gingerly inserted a catheter into an artery in the leg of a 55-year-old woman. To guide them, the neuroradiologists watched their progress on several screens showing multiple images of the blood vessels in her brain. It [...]

[WCCO-AM, Jan. 24, 2012] Tuesday is Jack Jablonski’s first full day at his new rehabilitation center. The 16-year-old Benilde-St. Margaret’s sophomore left the Hennepin County Medical Center Monday to begin rehab at Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Doctors couldn’t give us any specific details on what challenges Jablonski would be facing directly, [...]

[Star Tribune, Jan. 13, 2012] Allina Hospitals & Clinics said it is adding an emergency department to its WestHealth facility in Plymouth — a project expected to cost between $5 million and $8 million. The new department will be staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with emergency room doctors affiliated with Abbott [...]

[Duluth News Tribune, Jan. 5, 2012] Here’s one way to think about Michael Robert Calistro-Gomulak’s birth weight: At 15 pounds, 7 ounces, he weighed more at birth than both of his parents put together when they were born. His is the fourth-largest documented birth in Minnesota history. Michael, who was born Sept. 28 at Mercy [...]