Essentia Health's media roundup for October

November 03, 2025 By: Louie St. George

Essentia Health Child Life Specialist Michelle Finneman

Breast Cancer Awareness Month received a lot of media attention in October, with a particular focus on Essentia Health's mobile mammogram trucks that bring crucial screenings to rural communities, where travel barriers often can deter preventive care.

We also worked to spotlight Essentia’s athletic trainers, an exciting new partnership with the City of Moorhead, providers’ use of ambient voice dictation and food-security resources ahead of a pause to SNAP benefits, among other topics.

Each month, we share some of our favorite Essentia-related stories on the Newsroom. Here are a few of the highlights from October; please note that some of these stories require log-in credentials and thus may not be accessible for all.

KVRR (Fargo): Essentia expands mobile mammography program for breast cancer awareness month

KFYR (Bismarck): Essentia Health mobile mammogram trucks aim to eliminate barriers to breast cancer screenings

Valley News Live (Fargo): Mobile mammography program brings cancer screening to rural communities

Fox 21 (Duluth): Essentia Health mammogram trucks seeing trend of success

WDIO (Duluth): Breast cancer screening saves lives

Valley News Live’s North Dakota Today: Kicking off Essentia Health’s ‘Bras on Big’ campaign

WDAY (Fargo): Cass County partners with Essentia Health to train deputies in life-saving measures

WDIO: Essentia Health using artificial intelligence for medical charting

Northern News Now (Duluth): Unsung heroes: How Essentia’s athletic trainers help high school athletes

WDIO: New nurse apprenticeship program helping support people as they get into the workforce

Minnesota Star Tribune: Minnesota hospitals try to lower readmission rates, improve patients’ health in the process

KVRR: Essentia Health donates one million for downtown Moorhead’s new building, ‘The Loop’