Meet Molly Castle Work
Molly Castle Work is an MPR News reporter based in Rochester. She covers health care in southeast Minnesota.
Prior to joining MPR News, Molly worked as an investigative reporter at the Rochester Post Bulletin and later as a correspondent for KFF Health News in California.
Molly has won multiple national and statewide awards over her career, including the Association of Health Care Journalism’s first place investigative award for her coverage of Mayo Clinic’s debt collection activities. Her reporting helped enact new legislation and led to an attorney general investigation. She has contributed to public radio coverage across the country, including NPR and LAist.
Molly is a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield and has a degree in English. She earned her masters in journalism from the University of Maryland.
She’s on the lookout for stories that expose issues in rural health care and highlight intriguing characters that are part of the solutions.
You can find Molly Castle Work on LinkedIn.
Recent Contributions
- Fillmore County resident tests positive for measles; first case in Minnesota since April
- Why is Rochester’s 10-acre Seneca site still vacant seven years later?
- Winona County paid $128K ransom after cyberattack; then was attacked again
- Minnesota is losing hospital obstetrics units faster than most states, new data finds
- Diocese of Winona-Rochester insurer to pay $30 Million to survivors of clergy sexual abuse
- University of Minnesota offering free vision, hearing tests at the State Fair
- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visits Rochester to announce new autism initiative
- Google launches a charm offensive in 2 Minnesota towns as data center opposition grows
- A tale of two data centers: Google hosts events in to woo residents of Hermantown and Pine Island
- ‘If you’re not first, you’re last’: Mayo lawsuit highlights tensions in hospitals' race to use AI
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