Healthcare & Wellness News

Due to a national supply shortage, COVID-19 vaccines are not yet widely available. Vibrant Health (M Health Fairview) hopes to make doses available for more groups once supplies increase. Please note: We do not currently have a wait list for patients to sign up to...

Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix Counties are working closely with local hospitals and health systems to ensure that everyone who wants a vaccine can get vaccinated. This will be a long process and we are asking for everyone’s patience. Vaccines have been a successful...

March 1, 2021 8 AM Update Vibrant Health will continue to vaccinate patients 75 and older, along with healthcare workers during the week of March 1st. We have currently called all patients 75 and over at least once. If you are a Vibrant Health patient (or know...

Who will get the vaccine first? M Health Fairview and other health systems across Minnesota will initially get a limited supply of the vaccine. Until we receive enough doses for all employees and patients, our first vaccines will go to frontline healthcare workers, so...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends vaccination with any licensed, age-appropriate flu vaccine (with no preference expressed for any one vaccine over another) for the 2020-2021 influenza season. There are many vaccines available which can...

Vibrant Health Family Clinics will officially become M Health Fairview Clinic – River Falls when the practice consolidates its Ellsworth and Spring Valley clinics and moves to the new clinic location in the spring of 2021. Renovation on the space at 319 Main Street in...

Frequently Asked Questions What is happening? Fairview Health Services is making changes across our system that will help us deliver simpler, more affordable, accessible, and equitable care, while responding to the evolving health needs of our communities. Our plans...

Yes, we are currently conducting diagnostic testing for adults and children at eight drive-up testing sites across the Twin Cities including at Vibrant Health in River Falls. In Minnesota, Wisconsin, and nationwide, tests and supplies are limited. We are working to...

The pandemic is a historic and ongoing event. The news around COVID-19 changes daily, even hourly and our lives have seemingly come to a halt. While we cancel parties and hair appointments and follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for...

Because it has been noted that some counties have had many fewer COVID-19 tests done compared to other areas of the state, the National Guard has a program to go into communities to do one day of testing to try to understand how prevalent COVID-19 is in the community...