Minnesota
Children's Minnesota marks 100 years of service to kids, community
Children’s Minnesota celebrates 100 years
From offering 16 beds in 1924, to now treating 150,000 annually, Children’s Minnesota prides itself on creating a family atmosphere as it celebrates 100 years of service to children.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Children’s Minnesota celebrated a century of dedicated service to children on Monday, with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz proclaiming it “Children’s Minnesota Day” as staff and patients commemorated the milestone.
It’s a remarkable journey from a tiny house with just sixteen beds in 1924 to now, where 150,000 children are treated annually at the children’s hospital. This vision that began a century ago has expanded into two hospitals, twelve clinics, and nine specialty care sites.
Dr. Marc Gorelick, President and CEO of Children’s Minnesota, reflects on the continuous commitment, saying, “There’s not been a single day over the past hundred years where Children’s Minnesota has not been here for kids.”
The celebration also included personal stories of care and recovery, with Gov. Walz sharing that his nephew was treated for a brain infection at Children’s.
“Ended up here with a brain infection that probably no one in America could have fixed except this place,” said the governor. “It’s been a battle but it’s one I don’t fight alone. Thanks to Children’s Minnesota, I have a medical team that’s more like family,” said Mikayla Droughon, a patient fighting sickle cell.
Children’s Minnesota prides itself on a family-like atmosphere where everyone shares a passion for caring for children. Dr. Gorelick highlighted the collective effort, “It’s the wonderful and fantastic kid experts who work here, it’s the patients and families that we are here for, and it’s the community who supports us. That’s been the secret to our success for the last hundred years and it’s going to be the secret to our success going forward.”
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Expect a sunny Saturday with heat expected to build up this weekend before an even hotter work week.
Saturday forecast
Local perspective:
Winds stay light out of the south with plenty of sunshine today.
There are hints of an extremely isolated thundershower, but the chance of that happening over any given area is extremely small.
Expect highs to peak in the upper 80s with dew points in the mid to upper 60s this afternoon.
Extended forecast
What’s next:
This forecast is hot.
Highs will peak in the 90s every day this upcoming week for the Twin Cities and a large portion of the area as well.
Dew points really don’t look to surge into the 70s but mainly stay in the lower to upper 60s depending on the day of the week.
Little to no precipitation forecast this upcoming week. Expect dry and sunny days.
The Source: This story uses information from the FOX 9 weather forecast.
BEMIDJI — The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development recently announced over $1.4 million in child care economic development grants, including a $200,000 award to the
Northwest Minnesota Foundation
in Bemidji.
Split between 11 programs and organizations around the state, more than 80% of the awarded funds support programs in Greater Minnesota, with the aim of creating more than 1,100 new child care slots.
“Affordable, reliable child care is essential for a thriving economy,” DEED Commissioner Matt Varilek said in a release. “These grants are supporting working families by ensuring Minnesota parents are able to work knowing their child is well cared for by some of the best caregivers in the nation. We’re also helping employers retain talent and working together to establish the foundation for long-term economic vitality.”
DEED’s Child Care Economic Development Grant program provides funding to organizations and communities to invest in new or expanding child care businesses, including facility improvements, worker training, attraction, retention and licensing, and other strategies to address the child care shortage.
Since the office’s inception in July 2023, DEED has awarded over $13 million in grants to 56 organizations to fund child care startups or business expansions, resulting in over 4,000 new child care slots.
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