The City of Fosston is planning a meeting in regards to Rural Healthcare and OB within Essentia. City Administrator Cassie Heide explains the city’s role in bringing OB back to the Fosston community and their vision in ensuring CORE services remain in Fosston. After forming of the task force in 2022 the group met with…
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FOSSTON, MN—Essentia Health in Fosston is going to hold a class for anyone wanting to be a CNA–or certified nursing assistant. Carissa Affeldt with Essentia Health Fosston talks about the class. Affeldt says there aren’t many prerequisites needed to take this CNA course. Affeldt tells us when the CNA class will start and what it…
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FOSSTON, MN—There’s going to be a fundraiser Friday for Prairie Pines Community Assisted Living in Fosston. Carissa Affeldt with Essentia Health in Fosston has details. You can pick up the meal Friday from 11 until 1 at Prairie Pines Community….located at 903 Prairie Pines Drive in Fosston.
ST. PAUL, MN—A doctor from Fosston is one of three health care professionals who will receive a Minnesota Rural Health Award this week. Dr. Wesley Ofstedal, the medical director of Living Center at Essentia-Health-Fosston, is receiving the Rural Health Lifetime Achievement Award for his devotion to his patients and his focus on geriatric care and…
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Essentia Health-Fosston is hosting a women’s health day focusing specifically on pap smears and mammography on Friday, June 10th. Maija Duppong, a family medicine nurse practitioner at Essentia Health-Fosston, will be seeing patients during normal clinic hours of 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for paps, education and scheduling other screenings, such as mammograms, as needed.…
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