How Mayo’s Greater Minnesota clinic closures will affect communities

Rural Minnesotans have less access to vitality care providers than their peers in metro areas a gap that could widen even more with upcoming Mayo clinic closures in Greater Minnesota Where are clinics closing Mayo Clinic Soundness System a architecture of physical condition care centers in southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin in recent times disclosed that it will close clinics in the following cities on Dec Belle Plaine Caledonia Montgomery North Mankato St Peter Wells The physical condition system stated that transitions to other sites are part of a broader effort to strengthen care delivery across our communities Apart from Belle Plaine located on the edge of the Twin Cities in Scott County the other sites are in Greater Minnesota counties The closures come after the vitality system closed at least clinics mostly in southern Minnesota a scant were in northern Iowa between and according to an analysis by the Rochester Post Bulletin As of there were about primary care clinics located in rural areas of Minnesota representing of the total in the state Although majority of counties in Greater Minnesota are considered to have healthcare professional shortages according to the Minnesota Department of Wellness only two of the clinics set to close are in such areas Which clinics are in counties with wellbeing professional shortages Montgomery Le Sueur County Wells Faribault County Other clinics perimeter shortage areas Sibley County for example has a shortage and is right across the Minnesota River from Belle Plaine Given the trend of consolidation in wellness care all the clinics likely draw patients from rural parts of their counties where care gaps tend to be bulk pronounced How wide is the vitality care access gap in rural areas of Minnesotans live in isolated rural areas compared with only of soundness care providers practicing in these areas Isolated rural areas have one primary care physician per people as opposed to one per metro area residents according to the University of Minnesota The term metro is not unique to the Twin Cities Mankato and North Mankato are separate cities in different counties Blue Earth County and Nicollet County but combine to form the same metro area Patients in North Mankato wouldn t have to excursion as far to get to the next Mayo facility as patients in other communities impacted by the closures How far is it to the closest Mayo clinic miles from Caledonia to La Crosse Wisconsin miles from Wells to Albert Lea miles from St Peter to Mankato miles from Belle Plaine to New Prague miles from Montgomery to New Prague miles from North Mankato to Mankato Notably Wells St Peter Belle Plaine and North Mankato have other clinics operated by providers other than Mayo Patients in these communities have options that those in Caledonia and Montgomery don t although services and insurance networks may not be like-for-like Related from the MinnPost archive When a Mayo Clinic hospital ward is an art gallery for healing The post How Mayo s Greater Minnesota clinic closures will affect communities appeared first on MinnPost