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McKinley Elementary School Student Council donates $200 to Owatonna HospitalOWATONNA, Minn. 05/06/2008--The McKinley Elementary School Student Council recently donated $200 to Owatonna Hospital’s Expanding the Dream capital campaign. The money donated will be used toward a general fund that will support special project features in the new Owatonna Hospital. The special features include the Owatonna Commons, an Indoor Walking Path, a Community Resource Center, a Professional Education Center, a Center for Health and Wellness and a Reflection Center. These Special Project Features are being funded exclusively through philanthropic donations.
 Presenting a $200 check to Scott Palmer, Owatonna Hospital Foundation executive director, for the new Owatonna Hospital are McKinley Elementary School Student Council Members (from left to right) Jayce Bogen, vice president; Carlee Malueg, secretary; Jared Becker, treasurer; and Ella Rasp, president. Student Council members presented the check to Scott Palmer, Owatonna Hospital Foundation executive director. The new hospital project was selected after a brainstorming session was held by fourth- and fifth-grade student council members Ella Rasp, president; Jayce Bogen, vice president; Carlee Malueg, secretary; and Jared Becker, treasurer. "We had a lot of money in the student council savings account and identified organizations that could benefit from it," said Rasp. The money raised was from yearbook profits, T-shirt profits, the annual carnival and end-of-the-year treats. "I was particularly inspired by this gift because I know how hard the children worked to raise this money," said Scott Palmer, Owatonna Hospital Foundation executive director. "Their choice to support our project means a lot to me and everyone at the hospital." The Expanding the Dream campaign is a community venture launched earlier this year to fund special features of the new hospital, which were identified as important during community forums and an online survey.
About Owatonna HospitalThe new Owatonna Hospital will be connected to the current Owatonna Clinic-Mayo Health System 26th Street location, off Interstate 35, creating a health care campus. The facility will be designed to create an environment for providing high quality, safe, patient-centered care for residents in the region. Owatonna Hospital and Allina Hospitals & Clinics are taking a leadership role to promote healthy eating and physical activity through their heart healthy living and obesity initiatives with an emphasis on childhood obesity. Over the next five years, Allina and Owatonna Hospital will be working with community organizations to improve nutrition and increase physical activity to decrease obesity and improve heart health.
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