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“I can’t give my patients the care they deserve,” said Chris Rubesch, the vice president of the Minnesota Nurses Association and a nurse at Essentia Health in Duluth.

Carlin wishes they had renovated their kitchen and bathrooms when she still collected her Essentia paycheck.

Kim Carlin loved the stimulation of her work as an executive administrator for Essentia Health, an integrated health system with 14,000 employees.

The strongest of them are called essential oils, after the medieval alchemist’s notion of quinta essentia, a fifth essence of heavenly origin — a life force — to be extracted from terrestrial materials.

The state of Minnesota is delivering vaccine to tribal and county public health departments, as well as clinics operated by the Sanford and Essentia Health systems.