Reporter for the Star Tribune covering health care and medicine. Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting.
Minneapolis, MN
Joined May 2009
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Worker and patient complaints about care at Capitol Park Mental Health Hospital in St. Paul mirror the concerns that Minnesota leaders had before they allowed Acadia to build the place. startribune.com/new-for-prof…
Mayo Clinic's AI-powered smartwatch app is detecting child tantrums before they start, and ready for next phase of research: startribune.com/article/6018…
A Star Tribune check-up on Minnesota's hospitals. They're actually doing a bit better, financially, in 2024, but the divide between the haves and have nots appears to be growing across the state: startribune.com/minnesota-ho…
One of those humbling moments when I dipped back into the topic of AI in healthcare and realized the entire landscape had shifted since my last story. @AllinaHealth @FerrumHealth startribune.com/as-use-of-ai…
I kept mentioning Northern Exposure during reporting about a residency program that sends HCMC doctors up to Sanford Bemidji's ER. Few got the reference. I'm getting old. @sanfordhealth @HennepinHC startribune.com/hcmc-physici…
Sometimes rare disease stories don't get traction with readers, but this one is hitting home today. Life with PANDAS sounds really challenging. startribune.com/doctors-depa…
Workers at HCMC face dilemma of losing employer coverage of drug that has already helped them lose substantial excess weight. startribune.com/hcmc-pulls-c…
It will only cost tens of thousands for this nonprofit group to retire $3.5 million in medical debts for Minnesotans. Amazing how cheaply health care providers sell off their medical debt ... startribune.com/check-your-m…
In less than 24 hours, Minnesotans responded with enough donations to resolve this woman's medical debts and allow her in all likelihood to keep her doctors. Heck of a baby shower gift for someone giving birth on Thursday. startribune.com/donors-moved…
Always appreciate the MN Senate quoting my articles -- kinda, sorta accurately -- to debate health care payment reform in the state. What lawmakers decide this session will no doubt impact small hospitals: startribune.com/minnesota-s-…
Embarrassing when I just find a federal dataset that's existed since June. March survey: 1 in 8 Minnesota adults have had long COVID. More than half have had COVID, too, but that's an undercount missing asymptomatic/untested infections. startribune.com/minnesota-or…
@delta please help. We understand that blizzards cancel flights. But my daughter needs to get to college and now we have to drive from MSP to IND. Can you help us get her checked bag out of MSP so we can get on the road? We shouldn't have to request it 5 am and then wait hours.
Glorious @delta. You tell me to be at MSP at 5 am to reclaim my bag. So on 2 hours sleep I drag myself to baggage at 5 ... Only to be told you've changed your mind and won't complete any bag returns today. So now I get to drive my daughter to Indiana on 2 hours sleep. Not helpful
Cascade of misfortune that started when @delta didn't have the crew to leave on time. The delay caused the flight to miss the good weather window -- leaving my daughter and others on the tarmac for 2 hours until MSP closed and the plane had to roll back to the gate.
Not surprising and yet shocking at the same time -- the mental health struggles of teens following the pandemic. Results of the 2022 MN Student Survey: startribune.com/minnesota-st…
MN Gov. Walz gets a variant specific COVID booster at the Capitol Friday following his initial J&J single dose at the Vikings training facility last year and then boosters at Cub in Minneapolis and St. Paul Corner Drug. He also had COVID in December 2021.
MNA Turner on nurses resolve to get better staffing: "Nurses I hate to say it, we're heading into round two." A second strike a la Allina in 2016? She wouldn't commit to that yet.
MNA prez Mary Turner alleges hospitals survived COVID understaffed and are trying to take advantage and make that permanent ... "That's the way they want to go."
Infant Kaylee pulled herself up by a picket sign at Southdale before her dad Jeff addressed media, saying inadequate hospital staffing is pulling him in to too many emergency last minute shifts and too often away from his family.
A little bagpipe interlude to the pop music on the Southdale nurse picket line. Final full day of the strike with the big question being -- what's next?
Props to new daddy Edwin Avalos for discussing care inside hospitals under strike. He didn't have to it. Nothing to gain. But he wanted his community to have a fuller understanding of the situation. startribune.com/twin-cities-…
