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WILLMAR -- Local anesthesia services would be enhanced under a proposal to fold them into Willmar Medical Services, a 4-year-old joint venture between Rice Memorial Hospital and Affiliated Community Medical Centers. The plan would transfer sleep lab services into the joint entity...

WILLMAR -- The Kandiyohi County Commissioners are expected to discuss the pros and cons of appointing, rather than electing, certain statutory officers during their regular board meeting on Tuesday. The board delayed the discussion last month, but will likely hear details about the...

WILLMAR -- Kandiyohi County Administrator Larry Kleindl said he intends to recommend that Ann Stehn, the county's public health director, be appointed as interim family services director to fill the vacancy of Jay Kieft, whose resignation as head of family services takes effect March...

ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Driver and Vehicle Services Division has launched an updated website at dvs.dps.mn.gov with a design based on customer feedback gathered since last summer. If you want to renew your license or get Minnesota plates, there are front-page clicks specifically...

ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Driver and Vehicle Services Division has launched an updated website at dvs.dps.mn.gov with a design based on customer feedback gathered since last summer. If you want to renew your license or get Minnesota plates, there are front-page clicks specifically...

WILLMAR -- Every year Kandiyohi County Family Services receives about 800 reports of suspected child abuse. The phone calls typically come from family, neighbors, school or medical officials who suspect children may be abused, citing everything from children being dirty, underfed...

I believe in fairness in taxation. Those who benefit the most from government functions should also pay the most in taxes to finance those functions. But aren't those with lower incomes the main beneficiaries of government? Quite the opposite is true. Contrary to popular mythology,...

I just saw the news article Oct. 3 about the grant for a new utility task vehicle. What a wonderful addition for Willmar area emergency services. When I had my near-fatal heart attack in 2006, a rural Wisconsin volunteer fire department used a similar vehicle to save my life and...

WILLMAR -- Support for patients and employees dealing with financial difficulties helped earn Affiliated Community Medical Centers a financial advocacy award from Lutheran Social Service. The awards were recently announced by LSS Financial Counseling Service. Other recipients included...

GRANITE FALLS -- Child care that helps low-income parents re-enter the work force, treatment programs for juvenile offenders in custody, and chemical dependency treatment are among the areas where human service cuts are most likely to be made first by Yellow Medicine County. The...

The Willmar Community Transitional Services, formerly known as the Willmar Community Behavioral Health Hospital, was licensed on March 14 and began accepting admissions for a service that will be billed, at a lower cost, to Medicaid or private insurance. To take a phrase from Mark...

WILLMAR -- Counties have until the end of August to complete a tedious process of converting clients from MinnesotaCare to the newly expanded Medical Assistance coverage. It's a process that came with an 18-page list of directions from the state's Department of Human Services. But...