Allina News

[Anoka Hennepin School District newsletter, Nov. 10, 2011] Shari Carlson, sixth grade integrated language arts teacher at Coon Rapids Middle School, is the featured artist through November and December at the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing at Unity Hospital. Read more.

[KSTP.com, Oct. 31, 2011] Unity Hospital in Fridley wants to prevent kids from smoking and is providing parents with resources to help. Read the story.

[KSTP-TV, September 22, 2011] A Coon Rapids woman gave birth in water at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. It was the first water birth within in the Allina Hospitals and Clinics system. Aimee Blomberg gave birth to Kaelyn Grace Blomberg at 3:37 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15. Abbott Northwestern delivers approximately 4,000 babies a year and is the [...]

(KSTP.com, Aug. 17, 2011) Unity Hospital in Fridley is celebrating the opening of a community wellness path with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday Aug. 24, 2011.  Read the story.

[MedPage Today, July 18, 2011] Children under 18 can safely undergo coronary CT angiography (CCTA) imaging with radiation exposure equivalent to a few chest x-rays, without suffering degradation in image quality and diagnostic confidence, a single-center study found. Between 2007 and 2011, the effective radiation dose delivered to patients under 18 went from 1.7 mSv [...]

[Cardiovascular Business, July 20, 2011] Integrating therapeutic hypothermia (TH) protocols into a regional STEMI network can be an effective rescue therapy for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) that can help improve survival, according to a study published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. In fact, researchers from the Minneapolis Heart Institute (MHI) found that [...]

[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.

[MedCityNews, July 1, 2011] In 2003, Todd Stitt was able to deal with his depression. The 37-year-old computer programmer from Minneapolis worked as a contractor. “I was clear with my employer that I had depression. When I worked, I got paid. When I didn’t work, I didn’t get paid,” Stitt said. But then everything fell [...]

[Lakeville Patch, June 8, 2011] Despite fewer ambulance transports in Apple Valley, Lakeville and Farmington, tools like the LifePak 12 defibrillator and the LUCAS mechanical CPR device help ALF Ambulance paramedics provide better ambulatory care for sudden cardiac arrest patients. Read more at lakeville.patch.com.

[Lakeville Patch, June 7, 2011] From 2008 through 2010, Apple Valley, Lakeville and Farmington ambulance response times decreased nearly two minutes on average, according to data from Allina Medical Transportation. Allina Medical Transportation has operated ALF Ambulance since 2009. The service they provide has become more efficient and has saved the participating cities money, according [...]

[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 [...]

[Augustana Care, April 14, 2011] A new partnership between Augustana Care’s Apple Valley Villa apartments, Allina SeniorCare Transitions and Apple Valley Medical Center brings medical care directly to residents so they don’t have to leave the Villa when medical issues occur. Nurse-practitioner Julie Whelan of Allina SeniorCare Transitions is available Monday through Friday by appointment [...]