Rice Memorial Hospital

ATWATER -- Two people were injured Saturday afternoon in a two-vehicle crash in Atwater. Kamal H. Ahmen, 27, of Willmar, and Kama H. Ahmed, 23, of Willmar, were taken to Rice Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to the report from the Minnesota State Patrol. The...

WILLMAR — Three registered nurses at Rice Memorial Hospital were honored this past week for making a difference in the lives of their patients. Monica Rohner, Jeannine Dahl and Karen Janssen were chosen by a panel of judges for exemplifying the skills and compassion that nurses...

WILLMAR — New requirements for how public entities must report net liabilities for defined-benefit pension plans could have a big impact on local government. Rice Memorial Hospital had a foretaste last week of the pending changes, and the hospital’s auditors said the impact will...

WILLMAR — Greater emphasis on quality care and less on volume is helping keep more patients out of the hospital, but the changing landscape of reimbursement also is bringing considerable financial pain to hospitals. Rice Memorial Hospital posted a $3 million loss last year on revenue...

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...