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
- The feds promised Minnesota’s rural hospitals grant money to ease massive Medicaid cuts. Hospitals are still waiting.
- Adolescent sexual health continues to improve in Minnesota, but stark disparities persist
- Rural hospitals worry about the future of an obscure discount drug program they rely on
- Peregrine falcons at Mayo Clinic: How the world-renowned hospital came to raise birds of prey
- School workers pass first goal post toward health insurance reform in final day of legislative session
- Who gives a honk? As Rochester works to curb geese population, some residents push back
- Mayo Clinic CEO and president to step down at end of year
- University of Minnesota expands rural physician residency program to Staples
- Poor sleep can cause or worsen mental illness. Which treatments work and what's just hype?
- Agriculture is changing. To protect farmers from stress, mental health support has to change, too
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