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Est. 2014
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Each week, students in the Winona State University-Rochester nursing program head to The Landing’s temporary home inside the former Silver Lake Fire Station to give haircuts, foot care, and medical screenings to people experiencing homelessness.
Prof. Amber Fiedler, an assistant nursing professor at WSU-Rochester, has spearheaded the “Save a Life: Prevent Opioid Overdose” program, which runs every second Thursday of the month. She says the free program is part of a larger goal inside her university and in the health care field at large: stymying the opioid epidemic, which has become one of the leading causes of accidental death in America.
Students, faculty and administration from the past and present have said WSU-R feels more like a family than a normal university — a feeling that is only created through decades of dedication and hard work.
