(5/12/2021)
This week we are celebrating Hospital Week at Winona Health, and it is more fitting than ever that we do so. We all have a mental image of what we think a hospital is and why it is there; and most often that image is based on history and/or experience. It is not wrong, but it is not a complete picture of Winona Health today.
Winona Health has a rich and deep history grounded and grown over the decades with the community’s and the region’s healthcare needs. And the times continue to change. What I admire and value so much about this organization is the people who make it the organization that it is. We continue to evolve and grow in unique and certainly community and patient-centric ways.
Plays explore living with memory loss (5/5/2021)
Winona is hosting The Remember Project, a series of one-act plays about memory loss. These are wonderful plays and have a great community conversation following the play.
The play “In The Garden” will be peformed on Thursday, May 6 at 6:30–8:30 p.m. over Zoom. To register for this free event, visit encore-garden2021.eventbrite.com.
Arthur Monsetin’s adult children have come together to decide a course of action for their beloved father who is struggling with Alzheimer’s disease. Long ingrained familial tensions come to the surface as Peter, Karen and Jamie wrestle with how best to treasure their father as they also come to terms with his limitations.
Mariah Talsma, who graduated from Winona State University just days ago with a degree in public health, receives a vaccine against COVID-19 on May 5 from Winona Fire Department firefighter Derick Ritter at one
of Winona County Public Health’s vaccine clinics. Local doctors field vaccine questions (5/12/2021)
Officials in Winona and Trempealeau counties are fighting an uphill battle in their efforts to convey the information that COVID vaccines are safe to those whose hesitancy obstructs the possibility of herd immunity.
The Trempealeau County Health Department (TCHD) originally planned on a series of five informational presentations on the COVID-19 vaccine. However, the county decided to curtail the presentations, department spokesperson Kaila Baer said. “Nobody came,” she said.
WINONA, Minn. (KWNO)-The Food and Drug Administration on Monday granted Pfizer emergency use authorization for distributing their COVID-19 vaccine to 12-15-year-olds.
In Winona County, Emergency Management Coordinator Ben Klinger says they’ve seen the majority of new infections in that age group. Public Health Supervisor Melanie Tatge said the county has been in communication with area school districts, forming vaccination plans.
“We’re going to try our best to make that before schools close we can at least get one dose administered to those 12 to 15-year-olds,” said Tatge during an interview on KWNO’s In the Know last week.