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Minnesota Baby Born at 24 Weeks Returns Home After Record-Breaking 334-Day Stay in the NICU
Baby Adonis left North Memorial Health in Maple Grove, Minn., after nearly a full year in the NICU
Sahan Journal
Beyond the ER: Hospital-based legal aid helps improve long-term patient outcomes
Christina Toro faced the possibility of losing her housing while caring for her infant grandson. Free legal help from Children’s Minnesota gave the family more stability. The post Beyond the ER: Hospital-based legal aid helps improve long-term patient outcomes appeared first on Sahan Journal .
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St. Paul City School Clinic Marks One Year, Aims to Close Achievement Gaps
A health clinic tucked next door to St. Paul City School has just wrapped up its first full year of operation, offering everything from well-child checkups to eye exams to students and their families without them ever having to leave campus. Staff there say some kids who visited for routine physicals hadn't seen a healthcare provider in years, and the clinic's leaders believe that gap in care is exactly the kind of problem on-site healthcare is built to close.
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Doctors strike: Allina Unity, Mercy Hospitals to see 4-day picket starting Monday
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - A group of doctors at two Allina hospitals is heading to the picket line after years of what they call unsuccessful negotiations. About 150 doctors at Allina Unity and Mercy Hospitals, represented by Doctors Council-SEIU, say they are set to strike starting Sept. 14 after the last scheduled bargaining session failed to produce a first union contract.
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Fairview hospitals stop scheduling UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage patients on January 1
Fairview Health Services will stop scheduling non-emergency appointments for patients enrolled in UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plans starting January 1, 2027, the Minneapolis-based health system confirms on its own patient-notice page. The change reaches every M Health Fairview hospital and clinic across the Twin Cities metro area, plus Fairview Range in Hibbing and Grand Itasca Clinic […]
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Allina doctors at Unity, Mercy hospitals file strike notice after 3 years without contract
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Doctors at two Twin Cities hospitals are heading toward a strike after years of stalled contract talks. More than 150 physicians at Unity and Mercy Hospitals have filed a formal 10-day strike notice against Allina Health, setting the stage for a walkout beginning Sept. 14 and running through Sept. 17.
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St. Paul Clinic Closures Leave Homeless Patients Facing a Two-Mile Gap in Care
Minnesota Community Care shut down its Downtown Clinic and St. Paul Wellness Hub in early July, eliminating the only walk-in medical care inside the Dorothy Day Place campus and forcing patients, many of them unhoused, to travel roughly two miles south to the organization's West Side flagship, La Clinica. The closures came as the state's largest Federally Qualified Health Center braces for a wave of anticipated Medicaid losses tied to federal policy changes, and as its own finances have grown increasingly shaky.