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WILLMAR — As Rice Memorial Hospital leaders prepare to dig into the budget process for 2014, they are projecting a patient volume expected to remain mostly flat. The hospital board’s finance committee reviewed the numbers this past week, along with a comparison of volume trends...

WILLMAR -- The Willmar City Council this week sold $1,910,000 million in general obligation bonds to finance this year's street work, but not before being told the city's credit rating dipped slightly, resulting in a 0.1 percent hike in interest cost. The decrease in rating from...

WILLMAR - Nearly two years after opening a new short-term rehabilitation unit at the Rice Care Center, the demand for services is so strong that the facility's owner, Rice Memorial Hospital, is contemplating a $2 million addition to the unit. "Our utilization has outpaced our expectations,"...

WILLMAR — To patients, Rice Memorial Hospital’s transition a year ago to a new integrated electronic medical record system was mostly invisible. But to hospital workers and the medical staff, it was a huge undertaking. And now that the electronic health records system has been...

WILLMAR — The Rice Memorial Hospital Board has approved a new intergovernmental transfer agreement for annual payments to the city of Willmar that take the place of property taxes. The agreement, approved by the board on Wednesday, replaces a previous three-year agreement that expired...

WILLMAR — Citing a host of benefits that come with belonging to the Willmar Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce, the Rice Memorial Hospital Board adopted a resolution Wednesday reauthorizing the city-owned hospital’s membership in the Chamber. The board’s action stakes out Rice’s...

WILLMAR — Rice Memorial Hospital has launched its Healthy Communities Partnership program by hiring two new staff: Kelly Tauber, wellness coordinator, and Amber Chevalier, wellness guide. Within the next few months, the Rice Healthy Communities Partnership team will begin offering...

WILLMAR — The Cushman A. Rice trust fund gave nearly $70,000 in grants last year to help 254 qualified needy patients pay their bill at Rice Memorial Hospital. The need far exceeds the amount of grant dollars available each year, advisers with Bremer Investment Management and Trust,...