
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
- ‘Usual Minnesota’: March snowstorm pummels Rochester, Twin Cities get less
- Rochester and Mankato suspend public transit operations Sunday
- Mayo Clinic performed record number of solid organ transplants in 2025
- Meet the farmer who helped Mayo strengthen its understanding of rural health care
- Rochester police officer fatally shoots man experiencing a mental health crisis
- Mayo Clinic earned $1.5 billion profit in 2025, but is still below average in charity care
- Rochester Mayor Kim Norton announces she will not seek reelection this year
- Kidney transplant recipient is back home in Minnesota after two weeks in ICE custody
- Kidney transplant recipient in ICE custody may be released soon
- Rural Minnesotans of color skipping medical care out of fear of ICE
