Wellness

I am sitting at a local coffee shop trying to keep the numbers straight. Sitting across from Joel Albers can be quite a whirlwind of dates and figures. Papers are clutched in his hands explaining all about why the Minnesota health care system is on the verge of a major crisis. MORE »

In a park near the University of Minnesota campus, Matt Peterson sits on a bench and talks about his health. He is young, healthy and one of the more than 135,000 Minnesota residents in their twenties without health insurance, according to Families USA, a non-profit advocacy group for the uninsured. The 21-year-old former U of M student works 30 hours a week at a restaurant, but health insurance is the last thing on his mind. MORE »

Quietly, Children’s Hospital of Minneapolis is closing the clinic it managed at Southwest High School, part of a Minneapolis-wide program established in the 1980’s to improve teenagers’ access to health care by putting clinics in high schools. MORE »

On August 1, over one hundred and fifty members of the local Asian community met with representatives from federal, state and local government offices to discuss Minnesota Asian Health Disparities and to share stories and testimony’s on a broad range of health issues impacting Minnesota’s Asian and Pacific Islander community. MORE »