Heartland Orthopedic Specialists has recently grown to include 11 orthopedic providers with the addition of fellowship-trained sports medicine specialist Dr. Emily Monroe and specialty-trained orthopedic surgeon Dr. Aaron Balgaard. Both providers…
News & Events
Some of our affiliates and activities in the community include:
- Awarded by various independent health care organizations for our excellence in medical care, Top 10% in the State and Top 10% in the Nation for Joint Replacement. Click here for a full list of awards.
- Community lectures/seminars on orthopedics
- Orthopedic questions and answers with the local media
- Medical coverage at local high school sporting events
Heartland Orthopedic Specialists - A Department of Alomere Health Sports Medicine program provides Certified Athletic Trainers for:
- University of Minnesota Morris
- Alexandria Technical & Community College
- Alexandria Blizzard
- Willmar WarHawks
- Alexandria Area High School
- Osakis High School
- West Central Area High School
- Brandon/Evansville High School
- Hancock High School
- Parkers Prairie High School
- Sauk Centre High School
- Community Christian School - Willmar
- Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa High School
- Melrose High School
- Ashby High School
- Bertha-Hewitt High School
- Northstar Knights
- Alexandria Area Hockey Association
For more information on any of these programs, feel free to contact us at Doctors@HeartlandOrthopedics.com.
Heartland Orthopedic Specialists and Alomere Health are celebrating their 10th anniversary. Since its inception in Sept. 2008, the state-of-the-art Joint Replacement Center (JRC) has been located in Alexandria at 111 17th Ave. E., now Alomere…
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Jefferson Brand on being inducted into the University of Minnesota Morris Hall of Fame on Friday, September 21!
Since its inception in 1993, the Cougar Hall of Fame has not inducted a team medical…
Heartland Orthopedic Specialists and Alomere Health are celebrating their 5,000th Joint Replacement Center patient since September 2008, Sheila Nilson. Performing the surgery was Dr. Paul Dale with Heartland Orthopedic Specialists at Alomere…
Dr. Jefferson Brand, fellowship-trained sports medicine surgeon at Heartland Orthopedic Specialists and team orthopedic physician for the University of Minnesota Morris Cougars, is being inducted into the University of Minnesota Cougar Morris…
Heartland Orthopedic Specialists, a service of Alomere Health, has been given an above average rating from Minnesota HealthScores in the category of pain, function and mobility for total knee replacement, per data garnered in 2015. Additional…
Please join us in congratulating Alomere Health, formerly Douglas County Hospital, for earning a 5-star Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)!
The CMS developed this rating to help…
Dr. Jefferson Brand and Richard (Rich) Hardy, certified athletic trainer and research coordinator, were published again—this time in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior for their research study, "Relationship Between Energy Drink…
Our very own Dr. Jefferson Brand and Richard (Rich) Hardy, certified athletic trainer and research coordinator, had a research study article, "Concussions and Their Effects on Performance Measures of Major League Soccer Players; A Teaching Tool…
Timothy E. Lindley, M.D., Ph. D., dual fellowship-trained neurosurgeon, has joined Heartland Orthopedic Specialists. He is currently seeing patients at the practice’s Alexandria location. Patients in need of specialized back, neck or spine care…