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MinnesotaCare is a health coverage program in the U.S. state of Minnesota for low-income individuals and families who do not have access to employee-sponsored health insurance and do not qualify for Medical Assistance (MA). [1] It is administered by the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
The agency was established in 1977 after the abolition of the state board of health, which had existed since 1872. [2] The agency is responsible for Minnesotans' public health, including disease control and prevention, environmental health, public policy, and regulation of health care providers.
Minnesota's oldest hospital is M Health Fairview's St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul, which first opened in 1853 in the Minnesota Territory. 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 ...
In June 2010, Thomson Reuters identified Fairview Health Services as one of the top ten health care systems in the United States. [4] The University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis was also recently recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a top hospital in the United States for treatment in six different specialties. [5]
HealthEast Care System was a non-profit health care provider organization located in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the surrounding suburban area. It included four hospitals, 14 clinics, medical transportation and a variety of other outpatient services.
HealthPartners was founded in 1957 as Group Health, the first HMO, by Mid-America Mutual Insurance Company as an experiment in managed care and lower-cost health care. They established a full-service clinic in their headquarters on Como Avenue, at Highway 280, in St. Paul, near the border of Minneapolis. Its board of directors included one patient.
Although the term medical center is sometimes loosely used to refer to any concentration of health care providers including local clinics and individual hospital buildings, the term academic medical center more specifically refers to larger facilities or groups of facilities that include a full spectrum of health services, medical education ...
A National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a unique 10-digit identification number issued to health care providers in the United States by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The NPI has replaced the Unique Physician Identification Number (UPIN) as the required identifier for Medicare services, and is used by other payers ...