Holiday season is a poignant time to remember loved ones we have lost.

Northfield Hospice hosts "Tree of Remembrance" to honor those who have passed away. This community event is a short program of reflections, music, and reading of the names of loves ones remembered and honored.

The ninth annual "Tree of Remembrance" airs Tuesday, December 6 at 7:00 pm on KYMN Radio (95.1 FM, 1080 AM, and streaming at kymnradio.net). Special thanks to our friends at KYMN for hosting the program.

NOVEMBER 15, 2022 – Starting today, Northfield Hospital will not allow visitors under age 18 during the current RSV outbreak.

This restriction is to protect our patients and to protect children, who are at risk of serious illness from the highly contagious virus RSV (respiratory syncytial virus). Cases of RSV are increasing dramatically across the community.

Siblings under age 18 are not allowed in the Birth Center at this time.

Only visitors 18 and older are allowed for patients in the hospital and in the Birth Center, and residents in the Long Term Care Center.

OCTOBER 25, 2022 – Bivalent boosters work twice as hard against COVID. “Bivalent” means the vaccine contains two antigens – one from the original strain of coronavirus, and one from Omicron variants. (An “antigen” is a substance that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against a virus.)

Bivalent boosters began on Sept. 2. Any booster you had before then was not the new formulation designed to fight Omicron variants.

NH+C has bivalent boosters available for everyone age 5 and older.

SEPT. 22, 2022 -- Pfizer bivalent boosters are here! Call for your appointment: 507-646-8019

"Updated" boosters are recommended for everyone 12 and older. Get yours 2 months (or longer) after your last dose.

Updated boosters are designed to protect against Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants of COVID, which account for the majority of cases currently. Boosters are also available at local pharmacies.

It’s important to get unvaccinated people protected against COVID-19. Need your first or second dose? Schedule your appointment: 507-646-8019

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022 – The Minnesota Nurses Association is planning to go on strike Sept. 12-14 in hospitals in the metro and Duluth. NH+C has plans in place to provide safe care throughout this time.

The strike does not include nurses at NH+C.

The strike does impact NH+C’s ability to transfer patients. 

Some surgeries may have to be postponed or rescheduled. Elective surgery patients who are affected will be contacted directly by NH+C one day in advance of their scheduled surgery if it needs to be rescheduled.

We’re updating our Electronic Health Records system. Here are answers to questions you may have about your medical records, prescription refills and more.

Your medical records

Your past medical records are accessible from our new EHR system. Your provider and care team can access your medical records while caring for you.

If you’re a MyHealth Info user, you can access your information that’s new since June 28, 2022 through MyHealth Info. That includes test results, x-rays and other imaging.

Wow, it’s hot.

Extreme heat events in Minnesota are already occurring and are expected to become more common, more severe, and longer-lasting as our climate changes.

Protect your health during high heat and humidity:

JUNE 9, 2022 – Due to recent public violence including the June 1 shooting at a hospital in Tulsa and the June 3 stabbing at a hospital in California, NH+C is addressing its safety measures against possible threats of violence in our facilities.

We have no known threat to our workforce or campuses at this time.

NH+C staff are reviewing their training on how to respond to an active threat of violence (including active shooter) if such an event were to occur on any of our campuses.

When EMS gets called to a trauma – a car crash, a farming accident – the response is fast, and far-reaching.

As EMS rushes to the scene, the ambulance crew reports in to Medical Resource Control Center (MRCC), the regional dispatch center for emergency services. MRCC contacts the hospital’s Emergency Department, so the trauma team can prepare.

MRCC gives crucial details from the scene:

Hospitalization has been headline news during the pandemic. So, what’s it like to be in the hospital – whatever your illness or injury?

At Northfield Hospital, your care is led by hospitalists, doctors who specialize in hospital care. Northfield Hospital’s seven hospitalists are family practice and internal medicine doctors with additional expertise in high-acuity care – everything from recovery after surgery to injuries to heart attacks, respiratory illness, infectious disease.