Tag: health care

  This week we revisit the topic of drugs and addiction ahead of the release of the Center’s latest research, “It’s an addiction crisis,” discussing the rise of meth in Greater Minnesota and how both meth and opioids impact individuals, families and society. This week we look at the larger picture, the complex nature of ...

  While the nation struggles with the opioid crisis, in rural areas the drug of choice is an old foe: meth. Cheaper and purer than it was ten years ago, it has made a strong comeback, particularly in rural areas. This week, Jim and Marnie talk about the Center’s upcoming article on what is not ...

Across Minnesota, the “opioid crisis” is so much more than just opioids June 2018 By Marnie Werner, VP Research & Operations For the executive summary, click here. For a printable version, click here. If there were any doubt that opioids are the major health emergency of our time, two facts can put that doubt to ...

  This week we finish our conversation with Center board member and Minnesota Farm Bureau President Kevin Paap. Kevin touches on the Farm Bill and health insurance for farmers.

Thomas Hoff from the Southwest-West Central Service Cooperative in Marshall joins us this week to talk about LYFT Pathways, a program that is re-introducing kids to technical careers like manufacturing and health care by teaming up with businesses in southwestern and south central Minnesota.

Limited resources are putting growing pressure on rural communities May 2017 By Marnie Werner, Research Director The mobile crisis and outreach teams of the Northern Pines Mental Health Center in Brainerd are busy. In 2016, they made 1,200 calls in the counties they cover—Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Morrison, Todd and Wadena—and most of those calls ...

The study’s findings documented the following: Only 52% of small rural businesses offered their full-time employees health insurance coverage. Only 4% of these same businesses offered insurance to their parttime employees. Over 40% of small rural businesses reported health insurance premium increases of 20% or more in the past 12 months. In addition to the ...