Allina News

[Star Tribune, Sept. 13, 2011] The Muslim Experience in Minnesota project aims to capture and convey the Muslim experience in Minnesota.  This entry features Amin Rahmatullah, MD. a Pakistani-American cardiologist who has worked at Mercy Hospital and Unity Hospital for ten years.  Read the interview.

[Sun focus, Sept. 7, 2011]  The Ask a Doc guest column series features advice and commentary from medical professionals at Unity Hospital in Fridley.  This month’s topic on concussions is from Kurt Belk, MD, medical director of Unity’s emergency department. Read the column.

[Coon Rapids Herald, Sept. 8, 2011]  “This is a great thing, to talk about wellness and keep our community in that mode increasingly, rather than waiting until you are ill and show up here on not such great terms,” said Fridley Mayor Scott Lund.

[Anoka County Union, Sept. 7, 2011] I remove my shoes and socks and hesitantly lie face up on the table, a pillow at my head. I am undergoing an acupuncture session at the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing in Fridley. Read a writer’s account of her experience with integrative medicine.

[Sun Focus, Sept. 1, 2011] Unity Hospital staff and the public celebrated the opening of the hospital’s Wellness Path Aug. 24. The path creates an approximately 1-mile loop around the hospital campus and is connected with Fridley’s sidewalks. Read the article and watch a slide show of photos at mnsun.com.

[CTN News, Aug. 26, 2011] Allina’s Unity Hospital is taking another big step in its push to increase patient wellness. Hospital officials cut the ribbon on a new walking path that goes around Unity.  Watch the story on CTN here. The story is 11:30 minutes in from beginning of the newscast.

[Sun Focus, Aug. 17, 2011] Unity Hospital‘s garden plots, 15-by-20-feet in size, are tilled every spring and are open for use May through October. Previously, 40 plots were available to the public, and those plots were full for the first two years the gardens were open. This spring, Unity added 30 more plots to the [...]

[Sun Focus, Aug. 17, 2011] Rosemary Esler has one of the 70 community garden plots on Allina’s Unity Hospital campus. She is the board chair of the North Suburban Hospital District and served on the Northwest Community Health Board four years ago. The focus of the group’s efforts was how to encourage the community—and adults, specifically—to [...]

(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.

[Anoka County Union Aug. 11, 2011} The Penny George Institute for Health and Healing at Allina’s Unity Hospital campus now offers a holistic approach to health care on an outpatient basis. But you don’t have to be a patient to benefit from its healing services. Services are open to the public. Read the article.

[Star Tribune, July 27, 2011] Marcia Carlson, a licensed clinical social worker at Mercy Cancer Resource Center in Coon Rapids and the Virginia Piper Cancer Institute at Unity Hospital in Fridley, talks about her work. Click here to read the interview.

[Coon Rapids Herald, July 23, 2011] For the Sexual Assault Action Team of Anoka County, part of prevention is fighting the mentality that the victim is partially responsible. A recent New York Times article sparked controversy about this issue in Cleveland, Texas, with its description of a sexual assault victim. Readers complained that the stories [...]