Minneapolis, MN
Allina To Join CA-Based Sutter Health
Allina Health and Sacramento-based Sutter Health have signed a letter of intent for Allina to join Sutter, creating a combined nonprofit health system serving Minnesota, western Wisconsin, and northern and central California, the two organizations announced Tuesday.
Under the agreement, Allina Health would become the Upper Midwest Division of Sutter Health, keeping the Allina name, brand and regional headquarters in Minneapolis. Sutter would maintain its headquarters in Northern California. Lisa Shannon would remain president and CEO of Allina, and Warner Thomas would lead the combined system as president and CEO of Sutter.
A more than $2 billion investment in Minnesota and western Wisconsin will be used to establish new ambulatory care locations and expand specialty institutes, and accelerate physician and clinician recruitment, among other things, according to the announcement.
The new health system would have a combined 18,000 physicians and 88,000 employees serving over 5 million patients across three states. The system would include 39 hospitals and more than 400 primary and specialty care sites.
“As one nationally leading, locally committed nonprofit health system, we will be uniquely positioned to be at the forefront of innovation, building upon the expertise of our physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses and team members to chart a new path for healthcare,” Shannon said in the news release announcing the agreement.
Allina has had operating losses over the past four years, The Minnesota Star Tribune reported, noting the Sutter deal is similar to an acquisition but Sutter is not paying for its controlling interest.
“Healthcare organizations across the country are facing complex challenges and a rapidly evolving landscape,” Thomas said in the news release. “As trusted nonprofit health systems, we have a responsibility to fundamentally transform care for patients and communities across the country.”
Executives told the Tribune that Allina patients shouldn’t see near-term charges in their doctors, services or insurance coverage.
Allina and Sutter anticipate closing on the agreement by the end of 2026, pending regulatory approval.
A homicide investigation is underway after a person was found shot to death inside a car parked along the Mississippi River, the Minneapolis Park Police Department said.
Around 6:40 a.m. Sunday, officers from Minneapolis Park police and the city’s police department responded to a report of a body in a car at Mill Ruins Park. They found an adult with a fatal gunshot wound at the scene, as well as a firearm.
The Minneapolis Police Department’s Homicide Unit is investigating.
Police said the Hennepin County medical examiner will determine the manner and cause of death, as well as the person’s identity.
A teacher at Prairie Seeds Academy in Brooklyn Park is canoeing 1,000 miles down the Mississippi River to help students reconnect with nature, while raising $20,000 for students affected by the federal immigration crackdown in the process. FOX 9’s Maury Glover has the story.
June 1, 2026
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with a fund that opponents fear will be used to pay off the president’s political allies.
Judge Leonie Brinkema in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a brief order halting the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department, and other high-ranking administration officials from taking any further action to create the fund or make payments from it.
The order came in a lawsuit filed by a former federal prosecutor and a California professor. The plaintiffs are represented by the legal advocacy groups Democracy Forward and Common Cause. The lawsuit is part of a flurry of legal challenges against the fund.
The Justice Department on May 18 announced a nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” that will make payments to individuals who believe they have been wronged by past administrations. The fund came as part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over the leaking of his tax return information by a former IRS contractor.
Trump’s settlement agreement provides for the creation of the fund overseen by a board of five members chosen by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who previously served as Trump’s personal attorney. Trump can fire the members for any reason.
Brinkema, a President Bill Clinton appointee, took no position on the legality of the fund in her order. She wrote that her order is to ensure no money is “irreversibly disbursed” while the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order is pending.
She also set a hearing for June 12 — likely ensuring the fund will remain blocked for at least the next two weeks.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit include Andrew Floyd, a former federal Jan. 6 case prosecutor who was fired by the DOJ in June 2025, and Joseph Caravello, a California university professor who was charged with felony assault on a federal officer after protesting an immigration raid last summer. A jury acquitted Caravello in April.
The nine-count lawsuit alleges in part the fund violates the plaintiffs’ First and Fifth Amendment rights, and violates the authority of Congress.
“Since its inception, this fund has been on a collision course with the United States Constitution,” their complaint says.
Trump has written on social media that the fund will help those “who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden Administration” receive justice.
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