A Fairview Partners member home since 2007.

A 296 bed facility, St. Therese Home offers services for long term and short term care residents. St. Therese Home is part of Saint Therese Non-Profit Senior Living Communities. 

The Fairview Partners care team:

DAWN BLOMGREN, M.D.
Northwest Family Physicians

Education and Training
Dawn Blomgren received her medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School. She completed her residency at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, Minnesota.
Experience
Blomgren has worked for nineteen years as a family practice physician and has served for several years as the Medical Director and leader of Northwest Family Physicians. She is currently providing care to Fairview Partners residents at St. Therese Home. Additionally, Blomgren was the recipient of the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians “Physician of the Year” award for 2005.
Licensure and Certifications
Blomgren is board certified in family medicine.
Interests
Blomgren has a special interest in the following areas: preventive medicine, gynecology, cardiology, geriatrics and cholesterol disorders.

ALISON LOOD, R.N., G.N.P.
Fairview Geriatric Services
3400 West 66th Street, Suite 400
Edina, Minn 55435
(952) 836-3839

“Providing care to geriatrics living in a skilled nursing facility is a great opportunity for enhancing preventative care and encouraging open communication with patients, families and all health care workers. I feel it is important to keep skilled nursing facilities as much as a home environment as possible with the added benefits of today’s modern medical advances.”

Education and Training
Alison Lood received both her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1999, and her Master of Science in Nursing in 2004, from the University of Minnesota.
Experience
Lood started as a nurse at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview, in the cardiac step-down unit in 1999. After two years she transferred to the medical intensive care unit. She also served as a float nurse and gained experience in the surgical and cardiovascular intensive care units as well as the bone-marrow and solid organ transplant units. Lood has been providing care to Fairview Partners patients as a gerontological nurse practitioner (GNP) since 2004. She currently sees patients in both the long term and short term rehabilitation setting at three metro nursing homes.
Licensure and Certifications
Lood is certified as a gerontological nurse practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
Professional Associations
Lood is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, a nursing honor society and the American Geriatrics Society.
Personal Interests
In her free time, Lood enjoys running, horseback riding and traveling.

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