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Allina Health is closing four clinics in Minnesota, including one on Nicollet Mall, due to efficiency concerns and evolving patient preferences, impacting up to 150 workers, amid ongoing financial challenges and previous clinic closures by other health systems.
Minnesota doctors and healthcare workers staged their first union-led picket outside Allina Health clinics to protest stalled contract negotiations over administrative workload and staffing, highlighting broader healthcare labor unrest in the region.
Allina Health, a nonprofit health system based in Minnesota, has announced that it will no longer deny medical care to patients with outstanding bills of $4,500 or more. Previously, Allina's hospitals provided emergency care to all patients but cut off other services for those in debt, including children and individuals with chronic illnesses. The policy change comes after an investigation by the attorney general of Minnesota into Allina's practice of withholding care from indebted patients. Nonprofit hospitals like Allina receive tax breaks in exchange for providing care to vulnerable communities, but many have been found to have abandoned their charitable missions.
Allina Health, a nonprofit health system based in Minnesota, has announced a temporary halt to its policy of cutting off services for patients with outstanding medical debt as it re-examines the practice. The policy had previously cut off services for patients with at least $4,500 in outstanding bills, including children and those with chronic illnesses. Allina Health owns 13 hospitals and more than 90 clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin and avoided roughly $266 million in state, local, and federal taxes in 2020 due to its nonprofit status.