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Advice to rural Minnesota: Look beyond the physician

Rural health care needs to get beyond the physician and use other health care providers, technology and other approaches, a number of participants argued at the Minnesota Rural Health Care Conference in Duluth.
by Dave Peters

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Sediment clouding the river: Getting to conversations about why

Sediment clouding the river: Getting to conversations about why

A seminar in Mankato sought to explore issues related to sediment in the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers from the perspective of the farming community.
by Jennifer Vogel

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Flow of information can bring disturbance

Several hundred Minnesotans involved in rural health care gathered in Duluth today for a conference called Cornerstones of Rural Health.
by Dave Peters

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Cool Internet speed comparison

Cool Internet speed comparison

This web site shows you how fast is fast when it comes to broadband Internet access.
by Dave Peters

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. . . Gone

The city of Tenney voted 2 to 1 to dissolve, becoming the third Minnesota city to do so.
by Dave Peters

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Tenney MN? Going, going . . .

The voters of Tenney, Minnesota, are deciding today whether to dissolve as a city. It is tied for Minnesota’s smallest city, with five people.
by Dave Peters

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Minnesota’s rural health care system under new pressure

MPR News’ Ground Level project is launching a collection of stories and information about rural health care, the pressures coming to bear on that system and what people are doing about it.
by Dave Peters

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Health care reform creates new wave of IT workers

Health care reform creates new wave of IT workers

An $800,000 federal grant is behind a health IT program at Normandale Community College, designed to help health care providers adopt electronic medical records.
by Jennifer Vogel

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Dental therapists to fill rural gap

Dental therapists to fill rural gap

The first class of dental therapists–who will provide some of the same services as dentists in underserved areas–graduates from Metropolitan State University on June 23rd.
by Jennifer Vogel

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Rural health leaders gather to worry about reform

Rural health leaders gather to worry about reform

Concern about national health care reform’s unintended consequences for rural institutions will likely dominate the conversation at the Minnesota Rural Health Conference June 27-28 in Duluth.
by Dave Peters

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