
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
- Investigation continues into fire that killed 4 people in southern Minnesota
- One in 10 Minnesota women of childbearing age live in counties without a birthing center
- Down by 323 votes, Republican Finstad calls for recount in Minnesota's 1st District race
- Democrat Jake Johnson claims victory, but recount likely in 1st District race with Finstad
- Prominent business owner Joe Powers wins Rochester mayor race
- Jake Johnson supporters hope for an upset in Minnesota's 1st District
- Proposed Google data center in Pine Island to undergo new environmental review
- Money floods into southern Minnesota Finstad vs. Johnson race that could help flip the House
- VeggieRx: A Red Wing clinic prescribes and gives healthy food to patients, for free
- U of M fellowship aims to boost rural obstetrics training and keep labor and delivery units open
