Sunday, August 24, 2008
Thought you might like to know...
Last year the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ranked Minnesota first in the nation for the overall quality of its health care. Minnesota is also the top-ranked state for residents covered by health insurance, at 91.5 percent. And despite its frequently inclement weather, the Minneapolis metro area ranks among the top ten in the country for share of residents who exercise regularly.
But those are just the numbers. Ask any Minnesotian why the Twin Cities area is a great place to live and you'll get a litany of reasons from its forward-thinking policies (the state was the first to designate smoke-free areas in restaurants in 1975) to its many cultural offerings (which include the new Guthrie Theater on the Minneapolis water front) to its sense of community (four in ten residents do some kind of volunteer work, the highest rate in the nation).
"There is a can-do spirit here," says Charlie Boone, 80, who has a weekly radio show at WCCO-Minneapolis. "It's easy to stay healthy because it's easy to stay connected."
AARP ranked Minneapolis the eighth 'Healthiest Hometowns' after Ann Arbor, Michigan; Honolulu; Madison, Wisconsin; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Fargo, North Dakota; Boulder, Colorado; and Charlottesville, Virginia.
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