Health Care

Representatives from Red Lake Nation, Leech Lake Band, Mille Lacs Band and Fond du Lac Band testified on preserving or increasing funding for essential programs.

The new contract comes some five months after the two sides began negotiations. The two sides butted heads on contract length, pay, wage scales, staffing programs and more.

Dr. Matthew Hallanger, an emergency medicine physician at Sanford Health-Bemidji, discusses what he's seeing and how to prevent illness from spreading.

In 2021, about 14% of Minnesota women had no birthing hospital within 30 minutes, according to a report from the nonprofit March of Dimes.

As Congress eyes around $2.3 trillion in cuts to the Medicaid program, a new study from Georgetown University underscores the critical need it fills in rural America.

To fill some empty positions, the industry has recruited nurses from other countries to live and work in Minnesota on employment-based visas.

Citing a recent rise in regional respiratory illness, Sanford Health will implement seasonal visitor restrictions starting Wednesday, Jan. 8.

Healthcare systems serving the region shared a wide variety of top names for new babies born last year, including Oliver, Maverick, Lainey and Everly.

The stopgap funding ranges from the tens of thousands to the hundreds of thousands. Chisholm Ambulance will use the aid to help replace an aging ambulance.

KAXE covered pushback on the LGBTQ+ community, changes in rural health care delivery, a coal ash spill at Boswell Energy Center, tribal land back efforts, helium mining and more.