Riverwood Connects
Riverwood Connects is a program linking our community to local resources.
Your Health & Wellness Journey Starts Here
Riverwood Healthcare Center is dedicated to providing our patients with exceptional care in the hospital, clinic, surgery, and pharmacy setting, and within our community. Our facility strives to focus on our communities’ social determinants of health or the driving factors of the health and wellbeing of an individual.
What are Social Determinants of Health? Social determinants of health are the conditions in the environment where people are born, live, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality of life outcomes and risks.
FindFoodAitkinCounty.org is a guide to help find groceries, serving all who need food in Aitkin County. Visit the page to find a food shelf, meal program, or farmer’s market.
Are you looking for community resources and don’t know where to begin? Help starts here! Click HERE for access to 24/7 easy access connecting you to over 1,800 local resources including:
- Housing
- Jobs
- Education
- Legal
- Food
- Transit
- Money
- And more
At Riverwood Healthcare Center, we integrate behavioral health and mental health services into primary care, helping you find relief for depression, anxiety, PTSD, bi-polar disorder, grief, substance abuse, and other mental, behavioral, or psychosocial challenges. To learn more about our Behavioral Health services click HERE
Riverwood Healthcare Center is committed to providing high-quality, personalized and compassionate care to the communities we serve. Every three years, Riverwood conducts a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) to better understand the communities we serve by identifying, analyzing and prioritizing community health needs. In collaboration with community partners, organizations and individuals along with statistics gathered from the state priority areas are identified and strategies are put in place to address the local health needs. To learn more about Riverwood’s CHNA click HERE
Child and Teen Checkups offer specialized health examinations at no cost for children from birth to age 21, covered under Medical Assistance. These checkups help keep babies, children, teens, and young adults healthy.
Identifying and addressing health and dental issues early on simplifies the treatment process. With the support of their families, teens and young adults can learn to take control of their own health.
Recommended schedule for checkups:
- Infants: Birth, two weeks, 2, 4, 6, and 9 months.
- Toddlers: 12, 15, 18, 24, & 30 months.
- Every child aged 3 years and beyond should have a yearly checkup.
To schedule your Child and Teen Checkup, call 218-927-2157.
The Toolkit for Adolescent Care is a program developed by the University of Minnesota’s CDC-funded Healthy Youth Development – Prevention Research Center. Below are tools to initiate conversations with adolescent patients and their parents on a range of psychosocial and sexual health topics. Click on a topic for additional information.
