  {"id":10302,"date":"2020-11-09T15:14:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=10302"},"modified":"2021-11-12T21:38:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T21:38:23","slug":"minnpost-cedar-riversides-health-commons-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/09\/minnpost-cedar-riversides-health-commons-expands\/","title":{"rendered":"MinnPost: Cedar-Riverside\u2019s Health Commons Expands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9183 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/05\/apple-touch-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/05\/apple-touch-icon.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/05\/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Health Commons in the Riverside Plaza complex, a collaborative effort of Augsburg University\u2019s Department of Nursing, M Fairview Health, East Africa Health Project, and People\u2019s Center Clinics &amp; Services, is expanding and enhancing its services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The expanded Health Commons includes clinical space as well as mental health and addiction services provided by a peer support specialist and care coordinator. A full-time Somali-speaking nurse will help coordinate care and refer people to community organizations. The Health Commons also will provide the resources needed for community members to have virtual visits with medical personnel. In addition, there will be indoor and outdoor spaces for health-related classes and other events once it is safe to gather again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can read about the Health Commons and other health care efforts in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in the October 16, 2020, MinnPost opinion piece, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/community-voices\/2020\/10\/promising-steps-in-the-cedar-riverside-community-toward-equitable-health-care\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPromising steps in the Cedar-Riverside community toward equitable health care.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Commons in the Riverside Plaza complex, a collaborative effort of Augsburg University\u2019s Department of Nursing, M Fairview Health, East Africa Health Project, and People\u2019s Center Clinics &amp; Services, is expanding and enhancing its services.\u00a0 The expanded Health Commons includes clinical space as well as mental health and addiction services provided by a peer &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10733,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302\/revisions\/10733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}