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Sanford Canby recognized for excellence in quality and patient safety

Sanford Canby Medical Center has been recognized by the Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA) for superior performance in quality and patient safety as part of MHA’s Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN). MHA is one of 16 national, regional or state organizations selected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to participate in HIIN. MHA’s HIIN is working to reduce overall patient harm by 20 percent and 30-day hospital readmissions by 12 percent. To earn this recognition, Sanford Canby Medical Center invested resources ...

Wondering ‘where the time went’

MARSHALL — Seventy-one years worth of Bremer Bank experience concluded last week with a Thursday afternoon retirement party. Mortgage lender Deb Blomme and Vice President of Bremer Investments Mark Buss are retiring after spending all of nearly all of their careers at Bremer’s Marshall ...

‘Opportunity of a lifetime’

MARSHALL — The 1990s commercial expansion south of the Minnesota Highway 23 bypass in Marshall during the 1990s included a new lease on life for an existing restaurant building, now the site of The Hitching Post Eatery and Saloon. After success in a variety of restaurant and food service ...

Achieving food visions in Goodview

WINONA, Minn. (AP) — With his parents owning a resort business, Joel Anacabe grew up around private chefs. Food always inspired him. And after graduating from Winona State University in 2006, he decided to take that inspiration on the road — literally, Winona Daily News reported . First with a munchie wagon and then in 2016 in the form of a food truck, Anacabe has grown his idea from having wheels to having a brick and mortar restaurant in Goodview called Anacabe's Little Kitchen. Housed in the former Wenonah Brewing Co. building, the restaurant has been open a little more than a ...

With Trump out, Davos chief eyes fixing world architecture

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The founder of the World Economic Forum says U.S. President Donald Trump would have been an “interesting discussion partner” at its annual Davos event starting this week, but acknowledges that the partial U.S. government shutdown scuttled those plans. Klaus Schwab says he saw Trump shortly before Christmas and heard he had been “very much looking forward to coming back.” Last year, Trump was a highlight attendee at the elite gathering in the Swiss Alps, where he dined with business executives and met foreign leaders. Trump canceled the U.S. ...

May plans next move in Brexit fight

LONDON (AP) — As Prime Minister Theresa May prepared her next move in Britain’s deadlocked Brexit battle, a senior opposition politician said Sunday that it’s unlikely the U.K. will leave the European Union as scheduled on March 29. A government minister, however, warned that failure to deliver on Brexit would betray voters and unleash a “political tsunami.” May is due to present Parliament with a revised Brexit plan today, after the divorce deal she had struck the EU was rejected by lawmakers last week. With just over two months until Britain is due to leave the bloc, some ...