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ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTEssentia Health, Wilderness Health, Generations Health Care Initiatives and Stratis Health have partnered with nonprofit network Aunt Bertha to provide a free online platform that allows anyone to easily find and connect with local free and reduced-cost programs.The online program, Resourceful, is funded by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota and UCare. Resourceful helps people facing social needs — and those who help others — to find and make referrals to appropriate programs and services for food, shelter, health care, work, financial assistance and more.The program connects people to services in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota, and can be accessed at.Resourceful assists community-based organizations with free tools designed to support their mission and the ability to receive and respond to referrals.Resourceful relies on the help of the community to keep the resource directory current. Community-based organizations are encouraged to sign up for a free training atto learn how to help others navigate the social service directory and how to use all the free tools available.Many people track their steps and try to log 10,000 every day for better health. If you add speed to that mix, you'll likely get even more health benefits. Viv Williams has the details of a new study in this episode of NewsMD's "Health Fusion."The strike over contract negotiations is scheduled to end at 7 a.m. Thursday.The process of finding that lifesaving organ is rife with problems. Roughly 5,000 patients a year are dying on the waitlist — even as perfectly good donated organs end up in the trash. The agency that oversees donations and transplants is under scrutiny for how many organs are going to waste. The agency, the United Network for Organ Sharing, received a bipartisan tongue-lashing at a recent congressional hearing.The strike impacts Essentia St. Mary's hospitals in Duluth and Superior, St. Luke's hospital in Duluth and 12 Twin Cities hospitals.ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENT

ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTEssentia Health, Wilderness Health, Generations Health Care Initiatives and Stratis Health have partnered with nonprofit network Aunt Bertha to provide a free online platform that allows anyone to easily find and connect with local free and reduced-cost programs.The online program, Resourceful, is funded by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota and UCare. Resourceful helps people facing social needs — and those who help others — to find and make referrals to appropriate programs and services for food, shelter, health care, work, financial assistance and...

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