Essentia-St. Mary’s: Big Hospital. Big Challenge.
It is now open. The nearly $1 billion project. The Essentia Health complex now dominates the skyline of Duluth. The hospital is supposed to be usable for more than 50 years and designed to be flexible, adapting to change as modern medicine continues to advance. It comes amid rising healthcare costs, a shortage of nurses and other labor concerns, and attempts to serve the vast geography and many remote communities of the Northland.
Will the new medical complex be able to meet these challenges and more?
WATCH: A walk-through of Essentia Health
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Brandon Weatherz: Warmer stretch starts today
Light rain tapers off this morning, then today is mostly cloudy with a slight chance for a passing shower in the afternoon. Highs reach 50s.
Justin Liles: A chance of snow on the way
High pressure keeps near-zero precipitation chances over all the Northland through early Wednesday morning. An area of low pressure will move north to south along the Minnesota and Dakotas border tonight into Wednesday shifts winds to the east, which further increase through the daytime hours. There is a change if the winds are more easterly that we could see some lake enhancement near the head of the lake, which includes Duluth.
