Essentia, Marshfield quit health-care merger plan
DULUTH, Minn. – Two major health-care chains, Minnesota-based Essentia Health and Wisconsin-based Marshfield Clinic, [...]
Winona Health ending costly kidney treatments
WINONA, Minn. – Caught in a financial squeeze, Winona Heath is closing its money-losing [...]
Company closing Eau Claire, Chippewa Falls hospitals
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.— The Illinois-based hospital chain HSHS is closing its Eau Claire and Chippewa [...]
Ex-Wisconsin state senator to Mayo lobbying job
LACROSSE, Wis, -- A former Wisconsin state senator, Jennifer Shilling, has been hired as [...]
Fund drive seeks $2 million for Saint Anne updates
WINONA, Minn. – The governing board of the Benedictine Saint Anne assisted-living home launched [...]
Widened alert for bacteria-tainted cantaloupe
WASHINGTON – With 99 cases of salmonella poisoning and two deaths, the federal government [...]
Winona Health lauded for patient tracking
MINNEAPOLIS – The UCare health insurance provider for 600,000 Minnesotans recognized Winona Health with [...]
No soft punches: Mayo rebuts lawsuit claims
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Mayo Clinic issued a statement defending its discipline of anesthesiology researcher [...]
Researcher: “Mayo violated my academic freedom”
ROCHESTER, Minn. – A globally prominent Mayo Clinic doctor has sued the clinic, which [...]
Right-wingers pile on against EPA groundwater order
WINONA, Minn. – Two southeast Minnesota legislators accused federal agents of showing up unannounced [...]
State lagged on telling townspeople of benzene hazard
RAYMOND, Minn. – The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency found major ground poisoning where an [...]
Crowded helipad on Winona hospital rooftop
WINONA, Minn. – Police and fire crews blocked Parks Avenue near the hospital for [...]
UM inks new St. Cloud med school details
New med school home. On CentraCare campus in former hospital administration building. Now a [...]
Nursing home probe finds maltreatment, negligence
ROCHESTER, Minn. – A Rochester nursing home, Waters on Mayowood, has been charged by [...]
Cold season ahead with RSP risk: Shots available
WINONA, Minn. – Vaccine against the RSV virus has arrived at the Winona Health [...]
Mayo “tops off” new LaCrosse hospital
Earlier: Mayo expanding old Franciscan hospital As high as it gets. The [...]
West Nile virus makes summer debut
MADISON, Wis. – The first human infection of threaded West Nile virus in Wisconsin [...]
Judge to Winona therapy swindler: Pay back $192,000
WINONA, Minn. – A former Winona mental health counselor, Kristine Ann Radloff Hollund, was [...]
New physician assistant in Winona Health surgery
WINONA, Minn. – A physician assistant at Winona Health’s Rushford clinic since 2021, Holly [...]
Mayo expands service to 45th outside hospital
ROCHESTER. Minn. – Mayo Clinic’s network of independent hospitals that can draw on Mayo [...]
Hospital opens lobby as cooling center
WINONA, Minn. – The Winona hospital has opened the clinic lobby as a cooling [...]
Canadian smoke shrouds Lake Pepin visibility
LAKE CITY, Minn. – The Wisconsin bluffs on Lake Pepin were invisible from two [...]
Court backs up Walz on 2020 face- mask order
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled again that Governor [...]
Data on Minnesota as magnet for abortion
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Significantly more medically induced abortions were performed in Minnesota in [...]
Vandals mess Rochester park restrooms
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Restrooms at all Rochester city parks with toilet facilities have been [...]
Ex-GOP candidate Jensen sues medical ethics board
CHASKA, Minn. -- Former gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen filed lawsuits against the Minnesota Board [...]
Mayo extortion worked: Walz, Democrats cave
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Mayo Clinic’s heavy-handed attempt to maintain 100% control of nurse [...]
Mayo looks ahead: More Rochester skyscrapers
Ever onward, upward, outward. Who knows the price tag of Mayo’s next expansions. At [...]
Paid family leave passes Senate hurdle
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Without a vote to spare, the Minnesota Senate approved paid [...]
Winona Health ends masking but monitors risk
WINONA, Minn. – Although Winona Health made face masks optional April 24, the hospital [...]
Walz on Mayo threat to take marbles elsewhere
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Governor Tim Walz said he needs to see what the [...]
Solon: Mayo late opposing health-care bill
EAGAN, Minn. – The sponsor of a House bill to create a state health-care [...]
Mayo bullying catches legislator unawares
BRIGHTON, Minn. – The sponsor of a House bill to assure adequate hospital nursing [...]
Mayo’s $5 billion ultimatum: Our way or no way
ROCHESTER, Minn. – The financially powerful Mayo Clinic is bullying the Legislature to back [...]
Olmsted Medical face masks now optional
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Olmsted Medical Center lifted its precautionary CoVid face-mask requirement. Masks haad [...]
North Dakota tightens abortion limits
BISMARCK, N.D. – Governor Doug Burgum signed a ban on pregnancy terminations after six [...]
Gundersen Health goes mask-free
LACROSSE, Wis. - Masking will be optional at all Gundersen Health locations beginning Monday, [...]
Mayo scales back face-mask rule
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Effective Monday the Mayo Clinic will ease its system-wide masking requirement [...]
Historic trial: Minnesota takes on E-cig maker Juul
MINNEAPOLIS – The $100 million State of Minnesota suit against E-cigarette marketer Juul opened. [...]
Klobuchar lauded for Alzheimier’s work
WASHINGTON – The Alzheimer’s Association named Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota its 2023 Alzheimer’s [...]
Ethics panel drops case against Jensen
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Charges have been dropped against former gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen [...]
New Lyme companion disease found in ticks
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Another tick-borne disease is spreading in already-Lyme affected Eastern and Midwest [...]
Monticello wants answers on nuclear leak
MONTICELLO, Minn. Townspeople called a public meeting on for Wednesday on whether to extend [...]
WSU to augment school Rochester mental health aid
WINONA, Minn. – A $2 million federal grant has been awarded to Winona State [...]
Walz acts to protect trans-gender people
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Governor Tim Walz issued an executive order to shield the [...]
Psychotherapy recall: Being force-fed at school
WINONA, Minn. – The Winona County attorney has begun investigating a report that an [...]
Clinic adds urgent care physician’s assistant
WINONA, Minn. – The Winona Health clinic has a new physician’s assistant in urgent [...]
Mayo procedure aims to boost cardiac survival
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Mayo Clinic has installed a protocol for immediate application of ECMO [...]
Nurse: Innocent to unauthorized amputation
ELLSWORTH, Wis. – A nurse pleaded not guilty to a charge of cutting off [...]
Winona Health adds to urgent care staff
WINONA, Minn. -- A physician assistant who grew in Mazeppa, Matt Baertlein, has joined [...]
Clinic beefs up mental health outreach
WINONA, Minn. – A behavioral health specialist, Kattie Tibbs, has joined Winona Health’s new [...]
New mental health therapist at Winona Health
WINONA, Minn. – A licensed alcohol and drug counselor, Willa Olivier, has joined Winona [...]
More than ever, abortion access now Minnesota law
ST.PAUL, Min. –Surrounded by 100 legislators and women’s rights advocates, Governor Tim Walz signed [...]
GOP’s Jensen: Medical license at risk
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The physician whom Minnesota Republicans nominated to be governor in [...]
By single vote Minnesota Senate goes pro-choice
ST. PAUL, Minn. – After a night of heated debate with the galleries packed [...]
New skin doctor at Winona Health
WINONA, Minn. – A graduate of the Indiana School of Medicine, dermatologist Chad Weaver, [...]
UM sees better days ahead for teaching hospital
MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota announced plans to start building a mega medical [...]
How they voted: Minnesota abortion reform / 1
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota House voted 69-65 to delete a list of [...]
Biden emissary shows flag on abortion
ST, PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. secretary of health, Xavier Becerra, joined Governor Tim [...]
Winona Health unveils robotic surgery
WINONA Minn. – The Winona hospital invited news media to demonstrate its new $1.8 [...]