[Star Tribune, April 29, 2020] Delays of nonessential surgeries in Minnesota have caused anxious waits for patients needing treatments. Soon, more procedures will get a chance to be done.
April 29, 2020
[Star Tribune, April 23, 2020] Subtle shifts in the color of blood as it moves through a dense network of blood vessels can be a potent clue that a person has COVID-19, even if other signs of physical problems are absent. That realization has set off a national buying spree for optical medical devices called pulse oximeters, which can clip onto a finger or earlobe and detect color variations to tell how much oxygen is in the blood.
April 23, 2020
[ABC Newspapers, April 16, 2020] Mercy Hospital is a quiet place these days. “It depends on where you are in the hospital, but for the most part, in the hospital it’s very empty,” said Daniel Steffen, Mercy’s vice president of operations.
April 16, 2020
[ABC Newspapers, April 14, 2020] The Association of Minnesota Chinese Physicians donated 2,000 N95 masks to Mercy Hospital on April 8. Representatives of the AMCP gathered outside the hospital’s Unity Campus in Fridley to move boxes of medical supplies and speak with journalists.
April 14, 2020
[New Ulm Journal, April 09, 2020] Allina Health is calling for more donated personal protection equipment , money to help caregivers pay their own bills, and food. The initial request for equipment was to have expired on April 5.
April 09, 2020
[Pioneer Press, April 05, 2020] With the coronavirus showing up in congregate living facilities more frequently now, families are wondering: "Are they safer at home, with me?" Read more.
April 05, 2020
[Star Tribune, March 31, 2020] Bachman's Floral donated 1,500 flowering plants to Abbott Northwestern Hospital in appreciation of health care workers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 31, 2020
[Star Tribune, March 26, 2020] Allina Health members from across the organization volunteered to assemble face shields to protect health care workers working with COVID-19 patients.
March 26, 2020
[New York Times, March 25, 2020] Many of the finished masks are going into the Allina Health network of hospitals and clinics in Minnesota, said Helen Strike, who is in charge of Allina’s coronavirus response. She said she worried that the hospital network’s mask supplies could be depleted as the virus spread in Minnesota.
March 25, 2020
[Pioneer Press, March 23, 2020] In addition to new rules for labor and delivery, pregnant women face changes to clinic visits, in-person access to their doctors and midwives, baby shower cancellations due to social-distancing, and rigid guidelines for keeping themselves and their newborns safe after birth. The changes, and the awareness that more restrictions could be coming, have brought anxiety, disappointment and sadness for many new parents as they lose even more control over a situation where already have little control to begin with, according to local ob-gyns, midwives and other medical professionals.
March 23, 2020