Champlin
Champlin, MN · Health
Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
Air and water disparities, and the fight to shut down HERC
Zero Burn Coalition hunger strikers and North Loop residents are amplifying community testimonies about the daily health and quality of life impacts of living near the HERC trash incinerator, from airport-level noise to respiratory illness, mold growth and toxic emissions linked to asthma, heart disease and cancer. A North Loop...
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Twin Cities Nursing Home Workers Launch Three-Day Strike
More than 300 nursing home workers across the Twin Cities walked off the job Tuesday, opening a three-day unfair-labor-practice strike at five metro facilities. The workers and their union say they are turning up the heat to win raises, better benefits, and safer staffing ratios that they argue are critical to protecting residents and stabilizing an industry they describe as chronically understaffed.
KARE
KARE 11 Investigates: Disabled Minnesotans abandoned after care provider disappears amid fraud probe
ST PAUL, Minn. — Months after a Medicaid-funded care provider shut down amid fraud allegations, disabled Minnesotans are still living without care, oversight or stable housing. In a St. Paul apartment building once leased by an Integrated Community Supports (ICS) company, residents say they’ve been left behind -caught between...
KARE 11
Pressure to save Minnesota's largest public hospital mounts on lawmakers
FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
Minnesota lawmakers brainstorm how to save Hennepin Healthcare
FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
Finding solutions for HCMC's financial trouble
KARE 11
Two proposals to save HCMC being considered by lawmakers
mynorthnews.org
Self-effacing Northsider becomes face of movement to shut down trash burner
Natasha Villanueva stood behind the circle of people, a position that suits her when she allies with social justice groups. She prefers the quieter necessities of a movement and is unlikely to get behind a bullhorn or microphone. During the ICE occupation in Minneapolis, she did laundry for families and delivered meals in the Jordan neighborhood where she lives.
KSTP 5 Eyewitness News Minneapolis-St. Paul MN
New Hennepin Healthcare CEO says his eyes are ‘wide open’ on crisis facing hospital system
Just a few days into the job, new Hennepin Healthcare CEO Dr. John Cumming is already facing a major financial crisis, but he’s optimistic the Minnesota Legislature will intervene to prevent Hennepin County Medical Center from closing.