Mayo Clinic

Mayo announces furloughs and salary reductions

Apr 15, 2020

Temporary furloughs and salary reductions are coming to Mayo Clinic at the end of April, the healthcare provider announced in an April 10 news release. “Mayo Clinic is taking necessary steps to reduce expenses but additional measures are needed to ensure that we can emerge from this situation in a...

Masks required for Mayo patients, visitors

Apr 13, 2020

Patients and visitors are now required to wear a personal homemade or cloth mask while on any Mayo property and are highly encouraged to bring their own cloth masks to help conserve the supply of surgical masks for front-line medical staff. For people who do not have a mask, Mayo Clinic Health...

Corrected: Mayo, PMI partner to produce ‘much-needed’ PPE

Apr 8, 2020

A Lake City manufacturer has joined forces with the Mayo Clinic to produce hundreds of thousands of face shields to help protect against the spread of COVID-19. Pepin Manufacturing (PMI) is running two shifts, six days a week, for two weeks to produce the roughly 200,000 pieces of personal...

Mayo plans to defer elective care at least eight weeks

Mar 19, 2020

Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic Health System have announced that, beginning March 23, they are deferring elective care for at least eight weeks. A full statement from Dr. Amy Williams, Dean of the Practice at Mayo Clinic, is below: “Mayo Clinic continues to actively monitor all aspects of the COVID-...

Board approves part-time highway workers, audio upgrades for courtrooms in short meeting

Feb 26, 2020

The Feb. 18 meeting of the Wabasha County Board of Commissioners was very brief, with no action items. All Commissioners were present, along with County Administrator Brian Buhmann. The consent agenda included advertising and hiring of three 2020 part-time seasonal employment positions which had...

Corrected: Boe: Mayo Community Board hasn't voted on CRNA coverage

Nov 27, 2019

An emergency room staffing policy at the center of a lawsuit against Mayo Clinic Health System in Lake City hasn’t been voted on by the Board of Trustees that must approve major service reductions, nor has the policy been implemented. That’s according to Russell Boe, the Lake City City Council’s...

Stinson is guest speaker at the library Nov. 14

Nov 6, 2019

The Lake City Public Library (LCPL) invites the public to come and learn how being grateful is an important factor in helping achieve overall health. This event, led by Sarah Stinson, MS, LPC, CHTP/I Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing, takes place on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 6:30 p.m. at the...

Mayo Clinic Health System seeks hospice program volunteers

Sep 25, 2019

The Hospice program at Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing is recruiting for companion, respite and pet therapy volunteers.Hospice is a program designed to provide care for people in the final stages of life, and support patients and their families through this time. The physical, emotional and...

Katie Hinderaker joins Mayo Clinic Health System

Sep 11, 2019

Katie Hinderaker, M.D., has joined the Family Medicine team at Mayo Clinic Health System in Lake City. Dr. Hinderaker received an undergraduate degree from The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth and earned her medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis. She...

Letter: Grateful for Mayo here in Lake City

Apr 24, 2019

To the editor: As a Lake City resident for the last decade, this will be my first letter to the editor—Lake City’s Mayo clinic and hospital facilities, the reason I write, was one of the top reasons we moved here from the Twin Cities. “Catch them being good,” I was encouraged when I started...