Whether you’re a patient or a visitor, we want you to feel welcome. Enjoy our onsite amenities, including:
Northern Pines Cafeteria
Enjoy homemade meals and grab-and-go salads, sandwiches, and snacks without leaving our medical campus. Our cafeteria serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. We also offer in-room meal delivery to our hospital guests.
Cafeteria Hours
7 am – 5 pm daily
Chapel
Visit our onsite chapel. People of all faiths are welcome to enjoy this tranquil, healing space for meditation and prayer.
Guest Wi-Fi
Take advantage of free guest Wi-Fi.
Prescription-dispensing Machine
In most cases, you can leave the emergency room with what your provider prescribes. Our InstyMeds machine is stocked with common prescriptions and works like a secure vending machine. First, input your prescription information and credit card. Then, watch it dispense your exact medication—saving you a trip to the pharmacy.
Healing Gardens
Enjoy some sun and Mother Nature during your visit. Relax in our healing gardens outside our building.
Our hospital has provided high-quality health care to northeastern Minnesota for more than 50 years. Learn more about where we’ve been.
History Timeline
1960 | Aurora citizens secure government grants and donations from residents and businesses to build White Community Hospital—a 50-bed hospital.1961 | The hospital converts some of its beds to long-term care. The facility becomes White Community Hospital and Nursing Home.2006 | A new wing is built for hospital services.2010 | Recognizing the need to strengthen and stabilize health care in Aurora, the hospital’s board of directors and shareholders vote to join Essentia Health. The newly integrated organization has its own board of directors with local representation. Shareholders become part of the hospital’s new fundraising foundation.2011 | A $4.5-million project brings the Aurora Clinic into the hospital. The 13,000-square-foot expansion features a new lab, radiology suite, lobby, and check-in area.