As the Legislature is about to begin a special session to settle the state's budget, the revenue department issues a release stating that Local Government Aid checks be delayed until at least July 27.
(07/20/2011)
The way national health care reform is creating incentives and penalties to encourage the adoption of electronic record keeping can have a disproportionately harsh effect on rural providers.
(06/20/2011)
Andrew Richburg, Sanford's executive vice president of marketing, gives a brief history of his company, which bills itself as the "largest, rural, not-for-profit healthcare system in the nation."
(06/20/2011)
A introduction to half-dozen in rural Minnesota where change in the way health care is delivered seems to be in the wind.
(06/20/2011)
Rural areas long have had difficulty maintaining hospitals and attracting doctors, but political, economic and demographic changes are adding to the burden.
(06/20/2011)
Bigfork and Virginia are 80 miles apart and have community hospitals that seem quite different. One is financially healthy and gets high satisfaction rates from patients. The other is negotiating with a large health care company to deal with its red ink and try to improve its patient satisfaction.
(06/20/2011)
Outstate communities are finding it increasingly difficult to land doctors who can do it all. Across the country, fewer medical students are choosing to become family practitioners, instead opting for specialties that pay more and afford shorter working hours.
(06/20/2011)
A lack of physicians in rural Minnesota is leading to new ways to deliver health care, including use of such midlevel practitioners as paramedics and dental therapists and innovative ways to deliver care remotely.
(06/20/2011)
Profiles of people who are taking action in the health care industry in rural Minnesota to make their communities better.
(06/20/2011)
Dr. Susan Wasson in Osakis is a throwback to a different time in health care but she also represents dissatisfaction with the current system.
(06/20/2011)
At least by some measures, Cook County in far northeastern Minnesota, has the worst Internet service in the state. Thanks to federal stimulus dollars, this is poised to change. But residents hope high-speed won't change everything about this remote, beautiful county.
(03/24/2011)
Across the state, companies, cooperatives and municipalities are building broadband networks in rural areas that have been underserved. Ground Level has covered some of these projects on this blog, especially public efforts and those that have received federal stimulus dollars.
(03/24/2011)
Rural communities are hoping that better connectivity will make it feasible for more people to live and work farther from the city. They hope it'll stave off a pattern of out-migration that's been draining young people from their towns and farms for a century.
(03/24/2011)
Across rural Minnesota, cities, counties, cooperatives and companies are planning or building broadband internet networks. The goal is to provide even those who live in the remotest parts of the state with high-speed internet in order to foster job growth, better health care and increased educational opportunities. The most optimistic observers think telecommuting and other internet-based endeavors could help stabilize the populations of rural areas.
(03/24/2011)
Minnesota cities and counties encouraged by Gov. Mark Dayton's budget plan to restore funding for local-government aid might want to hold off on the celebrations.
(02/15/2011)
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