Allina News

[KSTP-TV, Dec. 10, 2011] Across the metro and greater Minnesota, thousands of kids from families in need received free bikes Saturday. The nonprofit Free Bikes 4 Kidz, with the help of hundreds of Allina Hospitals & Clinics employee volunteers, collected donated used bikes in October, refurbished them in November and delivered them Saturday. One of [...]

[KARE-TV, November 25, 2011] Toni Almstedt, 64, of Two Harbors, Minn., is one of the first patients at Abbott Northwestern Hospital to be treated with a new device designed specifically for the treatment of giant brain aneurysms.  Abbott Northwestern is the first Twin Cities hospital and one of only two centers in Minnesota where physicians perform this procedure. Watch her story on [...]

[KARE-TV, Nov. 22, 2011] For 39 years Max Day has been a pastor and for 25 years he has gone deer hunting in northern Minnesota with his sons on opening weekend. This year, on the day of the hunt everything changed when Pastor Day’s deer stand gave way. “I was thinking on the way down, this is not [...]

[KARE-TV, October 24, 2011] Move over beer and brats. New Ulm restaurants will soon be known for their veggies and fruit, too. A project to end heart attacks in New Ulm is entering a new phase in November. The Turner Hall restaurant is just one of many revamping its menu as part of the next [...]

[KARE-TV, October 21, 2011] As we age so can the valves in our heart. And until now, replacing those valves with open heart surgery has been considered risky for patients in their 80s or 90s, even if they are otherwise healthy. Well now a cutting edge but experimental procedure is being performed at Allina’s Abbott [...]

[KARE11, Oct. 20, 2011] Use of antidepressant drugs has soared nearly 400% since 1988, making the medication the most frequently used by people ages 18-44, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. Dr. Greg Plotnikoff, at Allina’s Penny George Institute for Health & Healing, says antidepressants are useful, but shouldn’t always [...]

[KARE11, Oct. 5, 2011] Allina’s Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Childrens’ Hospital broke ground this week on a new $50 million Mother Baby Center in Minneapolis adjacent to both hospitals. The new center will bring together needed services under one roof. Watch the story below.

[KARE, Oct. 5, 2011] A new care coordinator position created at Allina’s Piper Breast Center is offering a consistent advocate for patients facing breast cancer. The care coordinator role was created in April of 2010 in hopes of providing more continuity to patients moving through treatment for breast cancer. KARE11 found out what a difference it [...]

[KARE-TV, Sept. 7, 2011] The state-of-the-art BodyGem Resting Metabolism Testing device is now available at Abbott Northwestern Hospital’s LiveWell Fitness Center. The 10 minute test measures your breathing, then calculates your resting metabolic rate. If you would like more information on the test, here is a link to the Allina LiveWell Fitness Center.

[KARE11, Aug. 26, 2011] Colleen Dobie, Allina Medical Clinic certified nurse practitioner, was at the KARE Barn this morning to discuss childhood obesity and how families can make healthy food choices as kids prepare to go back-to-school. Allina clinics provide primary care and specialty services in more than 50 locations throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin. [...]

[KARE11, Aug. 9, 2011] Since late July, five young football players in Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina have died and heat is suspected in their deaths. Those cases have renewed calls for more stringent standards on practices during the summer months. Brent Millikin, an Allina sports medicine specialist and head of the Minnesota Athletic [...]

[KARE11, Aug. 4, 2011] A new University of Washington study says it’s harder to eat a nutritious diet if you’re on a low income as the number of families using food stamps is growing. Alicia Stewart, a clinical dietician with Allina’s United Hospital in St. Paul, toured a local supermarket and talked with KARE11′s Boua [...]