Minnesota, our corporate location, is a major center of healthcare achievement, research, and innovation, and Minnesota-based healthcare organizations lead the country in addressing the industry’s challenges. Cost remains the major issue for the healthcare industry (and for the national domestic agenda) and the industry is changing with new consolidation efforts, enterprise-level national information technology solutions, efforts to continually improve quality and cost-containment, and introduce new medical technology that improves patient care as well as reduce costs.