Essentia Institute of Rural Health

The Minnesota-based Essentia Institute of Rural Health is bringing a new kind of creativity to the challenges of serving lower-income patients in the small towns of the Midwest.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that Some 290 research ventures and clinical trials  are underway at Essentia ”as it tries to analyze and solve the distinct problems of medical care in the rural Midwest, where poverty is high, specialists are scarce and many people are uninsured.”