healthcare

Mayo parking lot construction begins Aug. 8

Aug 3, 2016

The main parking lot at Mayo Clinic Health System in Lake City will be under construction starting Monday, Aug. 8. Construction is expected to last approximately seven weeks. The project will involve a complete reconstruction to fix pot holes, low spots and cracks, and will allow for closer...

Pediatrician joins Mayo Lake City

Aug 3, 2016

Pediatrician Joel Cassingham, M.D., has recently joined the Mayo Clinic Health System team of primary care providers in Lake City. Dr. Cassingham received his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He studied medicine at the University of Illinois in Chicago, Ill., and...

A farewell for departing providers

Jul 14, 2016

Four departing Mayo Clinic Health System in Lake City providers, three physicians and one nurse practitioner attended a farewell party in their honor July 9 at Lake City Golf Club organized by the acute care nurses at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Lake City hospital. From left are Family Nurse...

Wabasha hospital recruits emergency, hospital providers

Jun 29, 2016

Saint Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Wabasha has announced plans to provide provider coverage for its hospital and emergency department as its staffing agreement with Mayo Clinic Health System comes to an end. Effective July 1, Kent Jeffery, MD, will serve as Saint Elizabeth’s main hospitalist....

Mayo: Agreement with city may change, not end

Jun 23, 2016

Any change in the affiliation agreement between the City of Lake City and Mayo Clinic may be as much as two years away and will not lead to ending the agreement, Mayo officials said this week. “Mayo Clinic Health System does not plan to end its affiliation agreement with Lake City. We continue to...

Mayo announces temporary replacements for departing providers

Jun 23, 2016

In the wake of three resignations and a retirement from its roster of primary care physicians and nurse practitioners, Mayo Clinic Health System of Lake City has announced that a team of providers from within the Mayo Clinic system will begin seeing patients in Lake City in early July. Dennis...

Gartner: Mayo wants out of city contract

Jun 16, 2016

Mayo Clinic Health System wants out of its 30-year contract with the City of Lake City, the City Council was told Monday night. A new regional Mayo structure covering much of southeastern Minnesota and some western Wisconsin locations would be governed by a 15 member board which would replace Lake...

Letter: More interested in money than patients

Jun 9, 2016

To the editor: I would like to express my disappoinment and anger with the mess Mayo Clinic has made of our medical clinic. I suggest we do whatever we have to to boycott the Lake City Mayo Health System until they bring our doctors back. Mayo Clinic is obviously more interested in money than the...

Letter: Loss of MDs inexcusable

Jun 8, 2016

To the editor: Mother Mayo’s pillage of Lake City is entirely inexcusable. I’m referring to what must be the departure of three extremely well trained, well qualified and experienced well liked MDs as well as a well qualified and liked nurse practitioner.They have abruptly resigned or retired from...

Letter: Does Mayo Meet Our Needs?

Jun 2, 2016

To the editor: It used to be that physicians would settle down in a community and devote their entire lives to caring for their neighbors. Lake City was like that not to long ago. We appreciated that our doc knew us, knew our families, our medical history, and what drugs worked with our bodies. It...