Opened March 2023
Our new 125,900 square-foot Astera Health hospital integrates new technology, creates a healthy environment that improves the patient experience and efficiency for staff, and ensures a sustainable future for healthcare in our area.
Astera Health will be located on a beautiful new property west of Wadena along Highway 10, bringing greater visibility and physically positioning Astera for future expansion as the needs of patients and the community evolve.
Devoted to Excellence
As the world of healthcare evolves, Astera is committed to creating healthier lives for everyone in our community: We’re not just a hospital – we’re developing the rural health center of the future.
Our mission of improving the health of the communities we serve means our focus is on our patients and the community. The vision for this investment is to promote healing for patients and families while introducing new resources in a more private and efficient setting.
Healthcare Today
When Tri-County Hospital was built 50 years ago, inpatient care accounted for 90 percent of our patients, and the facility design reflected that care. Patients expected to stay multiple days and needed the right care and environment for their extended stay. Bringing in better technology and enhancing our practices has led to shorter hospital stays and allows many post-surgical patients to go home the same day. As a result, our inpatients now only account for 13 percent of our care model. This shift means outpatient care is the primary focus.
We believe our patients deserve a facility that is as strong as the communities we serve and reflects the best quality of care they can receive, but the current facility does not meet these expectations. The existing facility, with its disjointed layout offering care in three separate buildings with multiple entry points, is landlocked on four acres and limited in flexibility and expansion possibilities.
In response to the changing healthcare climate, Tri-County Health Care, in conjunction with input from patients and the community, has designed a bold and forward-looking vision for the new healthcare center that will serve local communities for the next 50 to 100 years. Welcome to Astera Health!
About Astera Health
Caring for our patients is at the core of what we do at Astera Health. Not only will we devote ourselves to improving your health, but we will be your trusted partner for life.
History
Astera Health is a private, not-for-profit healthcare corporation committed to providing personalized services that improve the health of the communities we serve. An 11-member volunteer governing board presides over the hospital, which is accredited by the Joint Commission and certified by the Minnesota Department of Health as a Health Care Home.
Wadena and the surrounding communities have supported Tri-County Health Care in many ways since 1925, and they are the reason for our success and strength in operations as we move to become Astera Health.
Throughout the past 90-plus years of providing this care, we have seen many changes, but there is one has not changed – our commitment to YOU.
Our Vision
Our Mission
Our Values
Our Privilege
Our Vision
Our Vision
Astera Health will be your trusted partner for life.
Exceptional Customer Service
We will provide an excellent, consistent experience by delivering high quality, seamless care that is easily accessible in a family-oriented, patient-centered environment.
Culture of Ownership
We will recruit and retain high quality team members who embody our spirit of ownership. We will provide timely, consistent communication in a manner reflecting our caring, collaborative nature.
Adaptable Financial Stewardship
We will take an innovative, progressive approach to health care in a financially responsible manner to ensure the continued viability of our healthcare system.
Active Community Partner
We will work collaboratively with our community partners to achieve our mission.
Our Mission
Our Mission
Astera Health is committed to improving the health of the communities we serve.
Our vision and mission are the core of our organization and the foundation on which the four pillars below are built. We are devoted to:
- providing you with exceptional customer service and care
- raising up knowledgeable and enthusiastic employees
- approaching each endeavor with fiscal responsibility
- working in partnership with the communities and people we serve
Our Values
Our Values
Astera Health has adopted core values to assist in fulfilling our mission and vision. We believe that our patients receive a higher quality of care when our employees put these values into action and live them on a day-to-day basis. We strive to live by these values and hold each other accountable every day to ensure we are doing our best to display these values through our actions.
Integrity
Do the right thing; even when it is hard.
Ownership
Commitment to your family, community, team, and self.
Empathy
Care for all with honor and respect.
Innovation
Embrace learning, transformation, and growth.
Humility
Accept help, be thankful, celebrate others.
Joy
Find joy and create a meaningful experience.
Our Privilege
Our Privilege
Our vision of being your trusted partner for life is more than a job. It’s a smile, a helping hand and a word of encouragement. It’s the door man who greets you when you walk into our building. It’s the registration staff that answers your questions while getting you to your appointment quickly. It’s the nurse who makes vaccination injections not so scary for your little one. It’s the doctor who, even at the end of the day, treats you as though you’re their very first patient. It’s the countless staff members behind the scenes whose work makes your experience with us the very best that it can be.
This vision is a calling that brings people and communities together to do something far greater than just helping people feel better. It allows those we serve to live healthy and productive lives, to do the things they love, and to be with those who mean the most to them.
Caring for you – our customers and patients – isn’t just our purpose, it’s our privilege.
Our Name Change: Did You Know?
- Tri-County is used by others in the area (e.g., Tri-County Livestock, Tri-County Equipment, etc.); it’s not a unique brand nor specific to our healthcare purpose.
- We also changed our name when our current facility was built in 1974! Wesley Hospital was opened in 1925 by the Methodist Church, and the Board elected to change the name from Wesley to Tri-County Hospital in 1974 for the same reasons we have today.
Astera Health – Proud to be a strong, independent health system.