John Slettom, executive director of Riverwood Foundation, in affiliation with Riverwood Healthcare Center, announced his retirement this week.  “I’ve been blessed to end my 40-year career in the nonprofit world at Riverwood, working with great colleagues and volunteers who are dedicated to a great mission of advancing health care services locally,” Slettom says. “For the […]

Riverwood Healthcare Center welcomes Jessica Hodson, DO, family medicine physician who will begin seeing patients in mid-August. “We are excited to welcome Jessica to our family practice medical staff,” says Dr. Mark Heggem, Chief Medical Officer. “With her osteopathic degree and training, she brings to Riverwood an extra level of expertise in the treatment of […]

Dr. Austin Krohn, who trained at Riverwood Healthcare Center through the Rural Physician Associate Program from October 2008 through June 2009, returned for a week of family medicine clinical training July 16-20. Krohn, in his third year of residency training at North Memorial Medical Center in the Twin Cities, will join the family practice medical […]

Summer is a good time to focus on eye health and safety. Protecting your eyes from ultraviolet (UV) rays is especially important when many of us are spending more time outdoors. Ultraviolet rays are invisible to the eye and overexposure can cause a number of eye problems, including macular degeneration, cataracts and skin cancer around […]

Riverwood Foundation would like to thank all who contributed to the success of the 29th annual Hospice Charity Event with its premiere golf tournament and dinner held July 8th at Ruttger’s Resort, Deerwood. See donor list and photos. We raised more than $20,000 for local hospice care offered through HomeHealth Partnership in Aitkin and Crow Wing […]

   Otto Bremer Foundation contributes $300,000 for Better Together Capital Campaign  In early 2011, the Otto Bremer Foundation pledged generous support for the hospital expansion and renovations at Riverwood Healthcare Center in Aitkin with a $300,000 challenge grant. A little more than a year later, Riverwood Foundation reports that the community, whose donations were matched […]

Members of the Horseshoe Lake Association present a $250 donation to Riverwood Foundation Manager Katie Nelson for the Better Together Capital Campaign supporting the expansion and renovations at Riverwood Healthcare Center. Pictured left to right are Bill Ethen, Carol Pawlak, Katie Nelson, Paul Held.

Wayne and Janelle Floe with children Easton and Ramsi Donations to Better Together campaign matched to $12,500 Thanks to Wayne and Janelle Floe, McGregor area residents now have an even greater reason to give to the Better Together Capital Campaign.FLOE International is challenging the McGregor area community with a matching gift of $12,500. Floe says, […]

There’s just $11,945 left to raise for Riverwood Foundation to secure a $300,000 challenge grant from the Otto Bremer Foundation. In 2011, Riverwood Foundation set out to raise $2.2 million through its Better Together Capital Campaign to support Riverwood Healthcare Center’s $21 million expansion project that offers greater privacy and safety for patients and their […]

A few rain drops fell during the ceremony but this didn’t keep almost 50 people away from the annual Healing Garden Memorial Ceremony on May 27th to honor and commemorate loved ones. The short program included an invocation by Bill Fox, a reading of honors and memorials by Riverwood Foundation interim chairman Matthew Hill and […]

As part of the hospital expansion and renovation project at Riverwood Healthcare Center, the new wing for support services will open Mon., June 18.  The new wing, located in an addition on the south side of the hospital, will house about 60 to 70 employees from multiple departments, including administration, billing, Riverwood Foundation, education, finance, […]

Patient safety is a top priority in Minnesota’s hospitals. A Riverwood Healthcare Center staff member has been named winner of an award that recognizes hospital professionals who demonstrate their commitment to keeping patients safe by “speaking up” to prevent a potential patient safety issue. Dawn Slette, registered nurse who works in surgical services at Riverwood, […]

Riverwood Healthcare Center welcomes Lisa Gerhart, family nurse practitioner, who has been seeing patients at Riverwood clinics since last fall as she completed her nurse practitioner training. Gerhart brings more than five years of experience as a registered nurse and charge nurse for medical/surgical patients prior to obtaining her family nurse practitioner certification. She also served as […]

Riverwood Healthcare Center is pleased to welcome Kent Dumonseau as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).  He joins Riverwood’s management team and will oversee fiscal management for the hospital and clinics as well as participating in overall strategic planning and administrative operations. “Kent brings to Riverwood a great deal of expertise in financial management and rural healthcare […]

Grant will support Cuyuna Riverwood Breast Health Alliance  Riverwood Foundation has received an $80,000 grant from the Minnesota Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. The award supports breast health education and awareness, community and patient education, screening and advanced diagnostics and individualized care through the Cuyuna Riverwood Breast Health Alliance (BHA) partnership between Riverwood Healthcare […]