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
- Mayo Clinic just closed 6 rural Minnesota health clinics. More closings may follow
- ‘Total sadness’: Stewartville High School shooting leaves community grieving
- Community sounds alarm after apparent ICE arrest in Rochester
- Mower County water wells show elevated levels of arsenic and manganese
- How a Carleton College alum went from Northfield to ‘Saturday Night Live’
- COVID-19 pandemic narrowed health care industry pay gap, new study finds
- More than a year after negative genetic test, new findings give family long-sought diagnosis
- The CDC has backtracked long-held vaccine guidance; Minnesota public health expert responds
- Health insurance confusion, questions abound amid UCare failure and rising costs
- Minnesota applies for $1B in rural health care funds, but it won’t offset massive Medicaid cuts