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Regional Health Care Preparedness Coordinators (RHPCs)

Minnesota has eight established Health Care Coalitions (HCCs), which are led by a Regional Health Care Preparedness Coordinator (RHPC) and an established advisory committee. Although they function and are governed independently, they collaborate inter-regionally across the state for planning and response purposes.

Regional Health Care Preparedness Coordinators (RHPCs) (PDF)
Updated June, 2025.

Map of Minnesota showing 8 public health regions. Links in each region go to the same websites listed in the table below.

Coalition Name	Regional Health Care Preparedness Coordinators (RHPCs)	Serving these counties	Regional Profile
Central Health Care System Preparedness Coalition	Shawn Stoen Shawn.stoen@centracare.com	Aitkin Benton Cass Chisago Crow Wing Isanti Kanabec Mille Lacs Morrison Pine Sherburne Stearns Todd Wadena Wright	Central Health Care System Preparedness Coalition Regional Profile (PDF)
Metro Health and Medical Preparedness Coalition	*Chris Chell christine.chell@hcmed.org Seth Jones seth.jones@hcmed.org Emily Moilanen emily.moilanen@hcmed.org	Anoka Carver Dakota Hennepin Ramsey Scott Washington	Metro Health Care System Preparedness Coalition Regional Profile (PDF)
Northeast Health Care Preparedness Coalition	*Jo Miller jo.miller@arrowheadems.com Adam Shadiow adam.shadiow@arrowheadems.com	Carlton Cook Itasca Koochiching Lake St. Louis	Northeast Health Care System Preparedness Coalition Regional Profile (PDF)
Northwest Health Services Coalition	*Jay Ward jay.ward@sanfordhealth.org	Becker Beltrami Clearwater Hubbard Kittson Lake of the Woods Mahnomen Marshall Norman Pennington Polk Red Lake Roseau	Northwest Health Care System Preparedness Coalition Regional Profile (PDF)
South Central Health Care Coalition	*Eric Weller eweller@rehc.org Lavida Gingrich lgingrich@rehc.org	Blue Earth Brown Faribault LeSueur Martin McLeod Meeker Nicollet Sibley Waseca Watonwan	South Central Health Care System Preparedness Coalition Regional Profile (PDF)
Southeast Minnesota Disaster Health Coalition	*Nicole Schmidt Deb Teske Rachel Chiglo EM@semndhc.org EMS@semndhc.org Hospital@semndhc.org LTC@semndhc.org PublicHealth@semndhc.org SNF@semndhc.org VOAD@semndhc.org HOSPITALDISASTERCOMPACT@mayo.edu	Dodge Fillmore Freeborn Goodhue Houston Mower Olmsted Rice Steele Wabasha Winona	Southeast Health Care System Preparedness Coalition Regional Profile (PDF)
Southwest Healthcare Preparedness Coalition	*John Maatz swhpp@sw-ems.org Kristin Peterson kristin@sw-ems.org Ann Jensen director@sw-ems.org	Big Stone Chippewa Cottonwood Jackson Kandiyohi Lac qui Parle Lincoln Lyon Murray Nobles Pipestone Redwood Renville Rock Swift Yellow Medicine	Southwest Health Care System Preparedness Coalition Regional Profile (PDF)
West Central Health Care System Preparedness Coalition	*Shawn Stoen Shawn.stoen@centracare.com	Clay Douglas Grant Otter Tail Pope Stevens Traverse Wilkin	West Central Health Care System Preparedness Coalition Regional Profile (PDF)