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Community Health Beam is a web portal built on top of Al Lun's dmcbeam.org web platform. It is offered as a demo to show how a dashboard tool could be used to track the progress of the Olmsted County's Community Health Assessment and Planning process. 

 

 

 

 

The following are all (future and past) Beam-aware health related events.

Dates shown are dates when postings were made---Not the Actual Event Dates.  Click each event link to get actual event date and detailed event info. 

Please contact us if you want us to post other health-related events. 

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ISAIAH: Rochester Faith in MN Calendar and Strategic Missions (February 01, 2025)

Jan 2025 Rochester Faith in MN Calendar and Strategic Missions

Feb 2025 News and Call for Actions

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2024 – 2026 OLMSTED COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PLAN (CHIP) (January 31, 2025)

A Collaborative Community Effort Led by: Olmsted County Public Health Services, Olmsted Medical Center, and Mayo Clinic

The Community Health Assessment and Planning (CHAP) Process is about improving the health and well-being of residents in Olmsted County. Every three years the community conducts a health needs assessment to determine Olmsted County’s health priorities; formulate a plan to address the needs; and publish an annual progress report. Olmsted County Public Health Services, Mayo Clinic, and Olmsted Medical Center engage with diverse partners across our community to lead this process.
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Local family foundation gifts $250,000 to Ronald McDonald House (January 27, 2025)

Per PB ePaper Reporting  

ROCHESTER — Ronald McDonald House Charities Midwest has received one of its largest individual donations to date, courtesy of a local foundation, the charity announced Thursday, Jan. 23, at its Rochester house.

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One Olmsted: Celebrating 2024 successes of diversity, equity, and inclusion (January 18, 2025)

One Olmsted – Olmsted County’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative – is about envisioning and developing a workplace and community where everyone is treated equitably. Olmsted County staff continue to make progress toward this vision and some highlights of their work in 2024 are noted below.

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Olmsted County rolling out new mobile crisis response process in 2025 (December 16, 2024)

Press Release: ROCHESTER, Minn. – Mental health continues to be a top concern for Olmsted County residents. When someone is experiencing a mental health crisis, timely assistance from trained mental health professionals is critical.  

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Mayo Platform: A wealth of data, but how is it protected? (December 09, 2024)

PB Reporting: Measuring the breadth of Mayo Clinic’s medical data abundance. 

Researchers beyond Mayo Clinic’s walls might make use of the Mayo Clinic Platform. Its data network, Connect, uses millions of de-identified patient records, test results, imaging, pathology reports and more from Mayo Clinic and seven other large health care systems across the world.

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Exam Room Podcast (December 04, 2024)

Rochester Clinic featured on The Exam Room podcast by Chuck Carroll alongside Rochester's Mayor Kim Norton.

 

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Partnership to develop software platform to improve homeless medical care (November 11, 2024)

PB Reporting: "A partnership between the Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the PathCheck Foundation, an open-source software nonprofit, aims to create a digital platform to boost care coordination for people experiencing homelessness."

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Olmsted County shares update on opioid settlement fund use (October 17, 2024)

Support for: Drug and Alcohol Response Team (DART), CredibleMind, "Be in the Know Olmsted" Campaign

 

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Economic Vibrancy & Growth Management (September 30, 2024)

City teammates providing an update on this work, specifically regarding legacy public infrastructure projects, Unbound, infrastructure investments and regulatory milestones.  

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A Study of Financial Hardship (September 23, 2024)

Post Bulletin Reporting

United Way 2024 ALICE  (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) Report 

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