
Jeremy Olson
Reporter at The Minnesota Star Tribune
Reporter for the Star Tribune covering health care and medicine. Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting.
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2 days ago |
startribune.com | Jeremy Olson
A new poll finds most Minnesota Republicans support the Trump administration's cuts to scientific research, and potentially to Medicaid. The latest Star Tribune/Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication Minnesota Poll found that 74% of Republican and Republican-leaning voters support cuts to federal research grants, compared with only 4% of Democrats.
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3 days ago |
startribune.com | Jeremy Olson
Nurses at a dozen Twin Cities and Duluth hospitals on Monday voted to strike if they can't agree on a contract, which they insist must include staffing ratios that protect nurses and patients. Hospital negotiators have refused to discuss staffing ratios, which nurses and their union argued is an unfair labor practice and the pretense for the vote.
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4 days ago |
startribune.com | Jeremy Olson
A computer-controlled machine dispenses narcotics and other drugs in a hospital in 2013. Medication errors, which have been a leading cause of preventable deaths and disabilities in Minnesota hospitals, fell in 2024, according to the latest state data. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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1 week ago |
startribune.com | Jeremy Olson
By Jeremy Olson A St. Croix Falls man died Friday morning in Chisago County when his northbound car on Hwy. 95 drifted to the southbound lane and collided head-on with a Ford F250 pickup. The State Patrol identified the driver as Matthew Hudec, 50. The pickup driver also sustained injuries but was not taken to a hospital. The accident occurred around 6:50 a.m. at Hwy. 95 near Roe Avenue in Franconia Township, southwest of Taylors Falls.
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1 week ago |
startribune.com | Jeremy Olson
State crime authorities have publicly identified a 23-year-old man who wielded a chainsaw during a June 11 standoff with police in Brooklyn Center, along with the officers who shot him. Damon Constans Jr. "armed himself with a chain saw," started it up and advanced on police officers who were investigating a domestic dispute, according to a press release from the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
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A Star Tribune check-up on Minnesota's hospitals. They're actually doing a bit better, financially, in 2024, but the divide between the haves and have nots appears to be growing across the state: https://t.co/KQF1ZVqbyl

One of those humbling moments when I dipped back into the topic of AI in healthcare and realized the entire landscape had shifted since my last story. @AllinaHealth @FerrumHealth https://t.co/CRmOa6PF3i

I kept mentioning Northern Exposure during reporting about a residency program that sends HCMC doctors up to Sanford Bemidji's ER. Few got the reference. I'm getting old. @sanfordhealth @HennepinHC https://t.co/tI9Ecvuf8b https://t.co/ndqM2atf8D