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In the near future Dr. Dustin Lucarelli, MD, a general surgeon affiliated with St. Luke’s hospital in Duluth, will establish a monthly outreach clinic in Grand Marais, with an opening date tentatively scheduled for October 8. Dr. Lucarelli will see patients for consultations, pre- and post-operative visits, and minor surgical proceedings. To schedule an appointment to see the doctor in Grand Marais you will need to call St. Luke’s Surgical Associates office in Duluth at 218-249-6050.
An application was submitted to the Minnesota Department of Health requesting a public interest review of increasing Critical Access Hospital bed capacity from 16 to 25 beds. North Shore Health will seek an increase of nine beds during the 2022 legislative session, rearranging the Critical Access Hospital and Skilled Nursing Facility bed capacity. NSH Director Kimber Wraalstad said the goal is to allow use of Swing Beds rather than Nursing Home Beds to reduce the financial loss associated with the cost allocations of a small hospital-attached nursing home.
The work on the former Masonic Temple is almost complete and new sleeping quarters for employees will be open sometime during the last week of September. All told there will be five bedrooms, a kitchen, showers and bathrooms for employees who are on-call.
Troy Batchelor was selected to be the new Hospital Director of Nursing for NSH. Troy started his new job on September 13.
At a previous meeting the hospital board set the levy for 2022 at $1.3 million, keeping it the same as last year. A home with a taxable value of $225,000 will pay about $200 per year.
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