Wadena Pioneer Journal

Program to address health care workforce shortages graduates first Brainerd participant

BRAINERD — Essentia Health is participating in a program to help address health care workforce shortages. The program’s first participant at Essentia Health-St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Brainerd ...

Nurses union calls for more staffing following four recent on-the-job assaults

DULUTH – Nurses with the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) have called out Essentia Health over unsafe working conditions ...
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Nurses union calls for more staffing after assaults at Essentia hospitals

Essentia officials said they “will continue focusing on meaningful preventative measures at all of our facilities and ...
Brainerd Dispatch

Legislators encourage businesses to apply for job training grants

Reps. Josh Heintzeman, R-Nisswa, and Dale Lueck, R-Aitkin, are encouraging area businesses to apply for grants through the Job Training Incentive Program, operated by the Minnesota Department of ...