Through Community Benefit and Engagement, Allina Health supports and leads community initiatives that support health and well-being outside of our clinic and hospital walls. This work includes partnerships with community-based organizations, employee volunteerism, charitable contributions, and our own community health improvement programs.

2024 Highlights

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Mental health and wellness

Our staff are active leaders and participants in local mental health coalitions and round tables, coordinating with community partners and agencies to improve mental care. Through these and other partnerships we host and support trainings and events to increase knowledge and skills for building mental well-being and resilience in our communities.

Examples of 2024 activities include:

  • As a member of Isanti County’s Pathway to Care Cohort, trained more than 300 community members in three community trainings: suicide prevention methods; Mental Health First Aid; and prevention of suicide among veterans.
  • Partnered with the United Way to create a menu of mental health training programs in Pierce and St. Croix Counties.
  • Co-hosted the inaugural South-Central Minnesota Mental Health and Wellness Conference for 200 attendees.
  • Provided financial and in-kind resources to 34 middle and high schools, reaching an estimated 31,657 students via the Change to Chill School Partnership.
Substance use prevention and recovery

Allina Health’s Change To Chill website, geared to teens and adolescents, added resources focused on substance use prevention. To ensure the new content is relevant and engaging, the Change to Chill team hosted seven community dialogues with adolescents and their caregivers. Based on feedback from these groups, two new pages were added to the site in fall 2024: Brain Development 101 and Substance Use Effects on Brain Development. In 2025, Change to Chill will continue to expand its content for caregivers of children and youth.

Social determinants of health and health-related social needs

Non-medical factors can impact the health of patients. These factors include where someone lives, their education level, and language and literacy skills. In addition, things like housing, nutritious food and transportation access can affect health.

29 Allina Health primary care clinic locations stock bags of groceries for patients in need because healthy food can impact overall health. In 2024 we provided 3,162 grocery and meal bags to families, in addition to connecting patients to our local food resource partners.

Allina Health Care Team Members volunteered at 26 organizations supporting social determinants of health. We also contributed $758,300 to community partners working on housing, food stability, transportation and other issues that can impact health.

Culturally responsive care

A highlight of our work supporting culturally responsive care is our partnership with HealthFinders Collaborative (HFC), a community health center providing health services for underserved and uninsured families in Minnesota’s Rice and Steele Counties. In 2024, Allina Health supported this collaboration via:

  • $179,000 worth of in-kind radiology services and $41,000 of in-kind lab services
  • Staffing a part-time mental health consultant to help meet demand for services
  • Encouraging and tracking referrals for patients who would benefit from HFC services
  • $45,000 in financial charitable contributions
  • Two Allina Health care team members serving on HFC’s Board of Directors
Community benefit and engagement

In 2024, Allina Health provided more than $434 million in community benefits. These are investments in the people and places we serve.

Our current Community Benefit and Engagement priorities are based on our 2023-2025 Community Health Needs Assessment and include mental wellness; substance use prevention and recovery; social determinants of health; social determinants of health and health-related social needs; and access to culturally responsive care.

2024 Community Benefit Financial Summary

See our annual breakdown of community benefit funds distributed.

CBE Financial Chart