Allina News

[KARE 11, April 27, 2012] Allina Hospitals and Clinics has a new name and a new mission. It will now be known as Allina Health and it’s launching a new program to connect with the community. The Minneapolis Farmers Market will be the site of an event on Sunday, April 29, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., [...]

[KARE 11, April 17, 2012] Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute’s(SKRI) 49th Annual International Art Show by Artists with Disabilities features more than 300 pieces of art produced by more than 170 artists. All art is for sale through May 11, 2012. 75% of the sale price, established by artist, benefits the artist. The balance supports programs [...]

[KARE 11, April 10, 2012] Are you heart healthy? Would you know what symptoms need to be checked to make sure? You can find out at the upcoming ’From Table to Ticker‘ event at the Galleria. Allina’s Dr. Elizabeth Grey of the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital previewed the event on KARE 11 Today, [...]

[KARE 11, March 27, 2012] Allina Hospitals & Clinics is now posting current wait times for its Urgent Care locations across the Twin Cities metro region. The service went live on the Allina web site, allina.com/urgentcare, this week. See more here.

[KARE 11, Feb. 14, 2012] Allina Medical Transportation is the first EMS service in the nation linked to a national program to help cardiac arrest victims. The program is called AED Link and it is aimed at getting defibrillators to cardiac patients faster. Doctors say when someone goes into cardiac arrest they have only a [...]

[KARE-TV, February 5, 2012] Like many of his 16-year-old classmates Jack Jablonski is learning to drive. Thursday he took his first trip through the halls of Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute in his motorized wheelchair. He displayed the usual student driver anxiety, but significantly, his left hand was running the controls. It ranked as one of [...]

[KARE-TV, Feb. 3, 2012] Newlywed Hayley Bester has to look at her wedding pictures with only one eye. Bester’s right eye is the victim of an attack by a water-borne parasite called Acanthamoeba Keratitis. “The amoeba is an organism that lives in water and it also has an affinity for contact lenses,” says Dr. Omar Awad, [...]

[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 [...]