CentraCare

The CentraCare Urgency Care Center has expanded its hours. The hours are now from 2:30 until 10:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from noon until 8:00 p.m. on weekends and holidays.

CentraCare is the latest location in the St. Cloud metro area to offer a weekly farmers market. It will be held on Thursdays from 2:00 until 6:00 p.m. at CentraCare Health Plaza - River East parking lot.

CentraCare is once again offering free skin cancer screenings. They'll be done this Monday and Tuesday at CentraCare Clinic - Health Plaza. If you're interested, call to make an appointment at 229-4924. No walk-ins will be accepted.

A baby is safe and back together with its parents, after being abducted from the Melrose hospital this (Thursday) morning. CentraCare Health spokeswoman Jeanine Nistler says the incident happened at about 9:00 a.m.

St. Cloud area doctors are on the look out for a severe respiratory illness that's affecting several states. Health officials say the Enterovirus D68 has been confirmed in Chicago and Kansas City, and there are suspected cases in several Midwestern states - including Minnesota.

The Life Link Air Ambulance system took another step in providing patients with high quality transport care.

This week in our “Behind the Scenes” series on WJON, we take to the skies with the Life Link Air Ambulance team.

St. Cloud Hospital's Hospitality House is more than doubling in size. The St. Cloud City Council gave their approval for the expansion project this (Monday) evening, by amending the current Planned Unit Development. The Gorecki Guest House opened in 2009 with 12 rooms. The addition will add another 16 rooms.

Huge messages left in the snow on the frozen Mississippi River are giving patients at St. Cloud Hospital a lift.

The 39th annual Holly Ball held on December 14th raised over $550,000 for the St. Cloud Hospital Hospice Fund through the CentralCare Health Foundation.