Riverwood Healthcare Center is partnering with the McGregor Area Chamber of Commerce for a Business After Hours event at the Riverwood McGregor Clinic on Mon., Aug. 21, 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. “This is a great opportunity to visit with McGregor clinic providers and learn more about Riverwood’s clinic expansion project and Growing Together Campaign,” said […]

Heidi Klingelhofer, a third year medical student at Des Moines University, began a 4-month clinical rotation at Riverwood Healthcare Center the first week in August. She will spend eight weeks seeing family medicine patients with Dr. Erik Bostrom, Dr. Melissa Herbranson and Dr. Don Hughes; then four weeks with OB/GYN specialists Drs. Michael and Rachel […]

This is the sixth article in a 6-part series on Kids’ Health Tips from Dr. Erik Bostrom, family physician at Riverwood Healthcare Center in Aitkin. Molluscum contagiosum, a contagious skin condition, is caused by a virus called molluscum contagiosum that is part of the pox virus family. The virus is contagious through direct contact and is […]

Riverwood Healthcare Center is expanding once again. This time, the expansion — at a cost of about $14.9 million — will focus on the clinic campus in Aitkin. Groundbreaking for the project took place July 17 with a program that drew about 100 people. “This is an exciting day for all of us here at […]

In memory of the late Roger Wilson, the Wilson family of Aitkin created the Roger D. Wilson Scholarship to help ease the burden of tuition costs for aspiring students or healthcare professionals who are pursuing advanced healthcare training and nursing degrees. Briana Brophy, an Aitkin resident who is completing the registered nursing program at Rasmussen […]

This is the fifth article in a 6-part series on Kids’ Health Tips from Dr. Erik Bostrom, family physician at Riverwood Healthcare Center in Aitkin. As a parent, you are in a powerful and unique position to decide how your child eats every day. You also have the power to role model healthy behavior and attitudes […]

The summer issue of our Healthy Living newsletter highlights the latest developments at Riverwood’s hospital and clinics as well as other news on you can use on key patient services. Here’s a quick summary of all the news items with links to more information: Riverwood is one of the Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals in […]

Riverwood Healthcare Center is now certified as a Stage 6 Healthcare facility for use of electronic health records (EHR) by Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics. “Riverwood began implementing and using an electronic health record system in 2005 long before it was required by federal regulations,” said Dr. Tim Arnold, Riverwood family physician who […]

Beginning the week of July 17-21, construction work will begin on a major expansion and renovation of Riverwood Healthcare Center’s clinic facilities in Aitkin. Riverwood will host a groundbreaking program on Mon., July 17, at 3 p.m. This event will be held on the northeast side of the parking lot near the Healing Garden. The […]

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Janet Larson recently did a presentation on “Mental Health & You” at Riverwood Healthcare Center. Below are key messages she shared. When you think of someone with mental illness, what image pops into your mind? Is the person homeless? Does he or she look disheveled, scary? Is he or she […]

This is the fourth article in a 6-part series on Kids’ Health Tips from Dr. Erik Bostrom, family physician at Riverwood Healthcare Center in Aitkin. For most kids, playing and being physically active comes naturally. Exercise tends to become more structured as kids age with gym class, dance lessons, or soccer practice. Unfortunately, kids are sitting […]

Riverwood Healthcare Center and Riverwood Foundation are hosting Holes fore Hospice, a charity event golf tournament and lunch, on Fri., July 14, at Cuyuna Rolling Hills Golf Course in Deerwood. Holes fore Hospice is an annual fundraising event that supports hospice care and palliative programming for patients and families who are facing terminal illness. Providing […]

Riverwood Healthcare Center is pleased to welcome two new managers and a new infection preventionist. April Morris is the new clinic and outpatient services manager overseeing clinical and nursing operations for Riverwood’s Aitkin, Garrison and McGregor clinics, including family practice, specialty and outpatient services. She brings 10 years of nursing management experience, most recently as […]

This is the third article in a 6-part series on Kids’ Health Tips from Dr. Erik Bostrom, family physician at Riverwood Healthcare Center in Aitkin. Most tick bites are harmless and don’t need medical treatment. But some ticks (deer tick, wood tick and others) can carry harmful germs that cause diseases like Rocky Mountain spotted fever […]

As Riverwood Healthcare Center prepares for its new clinic expansion construction project in Aitkin, the Healing Garden adjacent to the hospital will close temporarily. There is a need to construct a retaining wall along the garden to allow for clinic expansion and parking spaces on the north side of the hospital. Given that heavy machinery […]