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needing inpatient mental health care. The questions that are important to them and building includes: enroll in a plan. The shop is the first of its REGIONS HOSPITAL RECEIVES HHS AWARD FOR ORGAN DONATION + an eight-story, 115,000-square-foot, kind in Minnesota. The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human freestanding building located between "We know that shopping for individual Services awarded a silver medal of the North Section and the power plant health insurance or a Medicare plan can honor to Regions Hospital at the National along University Avenue be complicated," says Andrea Walsh, Learning Congress in Grapevine, TX. HealthPartners Vice President. "We want to The award recognized Regions Hospital option of finishing an additional floor and meet our members, prospective members for increasing the number of lives saved adding 20 more rooms and their families where they live their through organ donation for the fourth lives and help them make smart, informed time. The award commends hospitals for choices about their health care coverage." achieving and sustaining national goals, + 100 private, inpatient rooms, with the + a better environment for patients with private, handicapped accessible rooms, private bathrooms, and outside space + family-friendly patient care space for mental health therapies and education STATEWIDE DIABETES AWARD GOES TO SAINT PAUL DIETITIAN Arlene Becker recently received the 2012 Bruce Zimmerman Diabetes Award in recognition of her pioneering work in diabetes prevention in Minnesota and nationally. The Minnesota Diabetes Steering Committee and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) presented Becker with the award. The award ceremony was held at the Many Faces of Community Health Conference in the Twin Cities. The annual award honors Bruce Zimmerman, M.D., an internationally known diabetes expert and endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic, who was a leader in the fight against diabetes in Minnesota and served as a founding member of the Minnesota Diabetes Steering Committee from 1985 until his death in 2001. HEALTHPARTNERS OPENS RETAIL LOCATION AT RIDGEDALE CENTER HealthPartners recently opening a retail location at Ridgedale Center in Minnetonka that will provide a face-toface setting for seniors to learn about Medicare and for Minnesotans who buy their own insurance to learn about their options. HealthPartners wants to make choosing a health insurance plan as easy as possible for Minnesotans by doing so. The location will be staffed by licensed sales agents, providing individuals the ability to learn about HealthPartners Medicare and individual products, ask MDNEWS.COM I MD NEWS Twin Cities | 23

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