In the community
Community partnerships
Just as we work side-by-side to provide care and service to patients and their families, we also form partnerships to improve the health of the community around us.
Nestled in the diverse Phillips community of south Minneapolis, Abbott Northwestern Hospital is involved in these and other community partnerships:
Community Health Assessments
Every three years, Allina Health conducts an assessment to better understand the health status and needs of the communities it serves to identify community resources and organizations that we can partners with to make improvements.
The Backyard Initiative
This partnership between seven south Minneapolis neighborhoods and Allina Health looks at ways to go beyond health care to improve the lives of its community members. Residents drew upon their own knowledge, skills and cultural values to improve their health.
Phillips Partnership
Allina Health is a partner in this strategic partnership aiming to bring resources, property value improvements, job gains and infrastructure development to the Phillips neighborhood.
Public Safety
All of the partnerships listed on this page, and more, encompass one of our primary goals, to make the neighborhoods we serve safer and stronger.
Learn more about community involvement and all Allina Health partnerships
Project for Pride in Living: Training to Work
Career training, at whatever stage you are at in your journey, is an important key to helping you find the career that fits you best. Attend an upcoming career session, work with a coach, and get access to tools like business clothes and computers to help you find the job for you.
Midtown Community Works
Our partnership with Midtown Community Works supports the Native American Community Development Institute, Midtown Greenway pedestrian and bikeway safety improvements, ADA Accessible Connections projects and more to support and improve the Midtown Greenway and Lake Street corridor.
About Phillips Community
The Abbott Northwestern Hospital campus is located in one of Minnesota's most diverse communities: Phillips. Just south of downtown Minneapolis, Phillips is home to nearly 20,000 residents and is made up of four neighborhoods, including Phillips West, Ventura Village, Midtown Phillips and Phillips East. According to the 2000 Census, about 31 percent of Phillips residents are White, 29 percent are African American, 22 percent are Latino American, 12 percent are American Indian and 6 percent are Asian American.
Phillips is one of the oldest communities in Minneapolis. One of its main streets, Park Avenue, is known for its historic mansions that were built by industrialists in the 1920s. Today, many of those mansions have been renovated and are home to businesses and non-profit agencies.
Other organizations in the community include Allina Health, Phillips Eye Institute, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Saint Mary's College, Lutheran Social Services, the American Swedish Institute, Children's Hospitals and Clinics - Minneapolis, and Andersen School.
The community's numerous specialty businesses such as Ingebretsen's Scandinavian Gifts and Foods, Mercado Central, the Heart of the Beast Puppet Theater and the Ancient Traders Market reflect the its cultural diversity.
Public safety
For years, Phillips community residents and Abbott Northwestern Hospital employees have come together to discuss neighborhood safety concerns and plan crime prevention actions. The partnerships we have participated in over the years have brought a significant reduction of serious crime to Phillips and its surrounding areas. Examples of these partnerships include:
- The Community Crime Prevention Initiative(CCPI), which meets the fourth Tuesday of each month at Abbott Northwestern. The concept behind CCPI is broader than crime prevention. CCPI also functions as a tool to develop and strengthen community involvement and raise community awareness.
- Minnesota HEALS (Hope, Education And Law and Safety), which is a collaboration of government agencies, community groups, law enforcement and private corporations that began working together on tough issues of crime and violence. This group helped create a place where their organizations could begin to work together in a systematic way. An example is CODE FOR, which fights crime by supporting community-oriented policing and other strategies to anticipate, track and respond to crime.