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Mercy Hospital is a part of Take Heart Anoka County, a coalition of doctors, nurses, paramedics, health educators and community leaders that aims to dramatically increase the likelihood of survival after sudden cardiac arrest by training more people in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and placing automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in public places throughout the community.
By 1948, the hospital itself was severely overcrowded, with a majority of the population being women. In the 1960s and 1970s many residents were moved out into nursing homes for better care. [3] In 1985 the site was renamed the Anoka Metro Regional Treatment Center. It was closed in 1999 and was given to Anoka County.
Location of Anoka County in Minnesota. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Anoka County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
The largest hospital, in terms of staffed beds, is Mayo Clinic Hospital - Rochester, which was founded in 1864 by William and Charlie Mayo and has a total of 2,014 beds (1,220 beds at its St. Marys campus and 794 at its Methodist campus). There are twice as many rural hospitals as urban hospitals in Minnesota.
Anoka (/ ə ˈ n oʊ k ə / ə-NOH-kə) [6] is a city in and the county seat of Anoka County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 17,142 at the 2010 census . [ 7 ] Anoka is the " Halloween Capital of the World" because it hosted one of the first Halloween parades in 1920. [ 1 ]
Anoka County (/ ə ˈ n oʊ k ə / ə-NOH-kə) [2] is the fourth-most populous county in the U.S. state of Minnesota.As of the 2020 census, its population was 363,887. [3] The county seat and namesake of the county is the city of Anoka, [4] which is derived from the Dakota word anoka meaning "on (or from) both sides", referring to its location on both banks of the Rum River.
The name "Ah-Gwah-Ching" means "out-of-doors" in the Ojibwe language. The center remained a treatment center for tuberculosis until January 1, 1962. During that time, it treated nearly 14,000 patients.
C. K. Bartlett was the superintendent of the hospital in its early years before his resignation in 1894. [6] Its first patient checked on December 6, 1866. The hospital soon became overcrowded, so the state built 3 other facilities in Rochester, Fergus Falls, and Anoka. The St. Peter location remained the main hospital.