Allina News

[KSTP-TV, March 30, 2012] Warm temperatures may be tempting some to wander into area lakes and rivers. But emergency room physician Rudi Alvey at Allina’s United Hospital in St. Paul warns that may not be a very safe idea.

[CBS, April 1, 2012] Statistically, fewer than one percent of all medical devices fail their patients – far fewer, in fact. Small comfort if one of those very rare failures strikes you or me or someone you love. CBS Sunday Morning examined one of those cases and how it lead Allina cardiologist Robert Hauser at [...]

[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.

[Fox 9 News, March 25, 2012] Former vice president Dick Cheney is recovering Sunday after getting a new heart. While getting a transplant at 70 is unusual according to the doctor we spoke with, its not unheard of. So what is the process and what is the feeling waiting for a heart? Watch the story [...]

[Fox 9 News, March 22, 2012] Two men — one a doctor and the other a banker — both shared a love of baskeball, but neither could have imagined they would have shared a moment that would lead one to save the other’s life. Dr. Frank Anderson’s love for basketball may have saved his life. [...]

[KMSP Fox 9, March 9, 2012] A pair of sister turned their February birthdays a bit upside down. Instead of gifts for themselves, they asked for gifts of baby clothes and blankets so they could give them to babies at Allina’s United Hospital in St. Paul, where they were born. Watch the story here.

[WCCO-TV, March 2, 2012] Two nurses at Allina’s Abbott Northwestern became more than co-workers and friends when one of them volunteered a kidney to the other. WCCO reports on a special bond that has meant so much to both women.

[WCCO-TV, March 13, 2012] In a world where heart failure’s an epidemic, doctors say there’s now a game-changer in their fight. Starting Tuesday, doctors at a Twin Cities hospital started what they call a less-invasive alternative to open-heart surgery. WCCO-TV went inside the operation room at Abbott Northwestern Hospital to show the procedure that is [...]

[WCCO-TV, Feb. 29, 2012] It’s not quite the way he envisioned, but Jack Jablonski is headed to the Class AA Boys State Hockey Tournament next week. The 16-year-old was at Mariucci Arena Wednesday night as his Benilde-St. Margaret’s Red Knights beat Minnetonka 5-1 in the Section 6AA Championship game. WCCO met Jack as he was [...]

[KSTP-TV, Feb. 29, 2012] What if you only got to celebrate your birthday once every four years. Todd Johnson, Jr. was born at Allina’s United Hospital on Leap Day and he may find out. Watch more below.

[CTN News, Feb. 24, 2012] There’s a new place in the north metro for people to go who’ve been diagnosed with a terminal illness. This week, Allina’s J.A. Wedum Residential Hospice opened its doors to the public just across the river in Brooklyn Park. The facility is committed to providing end-of-life care in a home-like [...]

[WCCO-TV & KMSP-TV, Feb. 19, 2012] It was a car ride the Heath family will never forget. A mother, father and their toddler were taking the half-hour trip from their home near Mora to Cambridge welcome a new addition to their family. But the baby just wasn’t in a mood to wait. Two-and-half-year-old Maiah has [...]