{"id":575728,"date":"2026-04-10T10:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575728\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:37:27","slug":"abbott-northwestern-hospital-water-pipe-rupture-overnight-reschedules-some-elective-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575728\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott Northwestern Hospital water pipe rupture overnight reschedules some elective procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ath_allina-lawsuit_00.00.29.20.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">File photo of Allina Health Abbott Northwestern Hospital.\u00a0 (FOX 9)<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) &#8211; Some Abbott Northwestern patients are having their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/health-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">elective procedures rescheduled<\/a> after an overnight water pipe rupture inside the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Water pipe rupture at Abbot Northwestern Hospital <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KMSP\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Abbott Northwestern Hospital officials say the rupture happened just before 1 a.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Water was turned off for a few hours before it was fully restored at 7:30 a.m., according to Allina Health, which owns the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The hospital adds that &#8220;fewer than a dozen elective procedures are being rescheduled&#8221; and patients impacted by the rupture have been contacted. Any patients who have not been contacted can proceed with their scheduled appointments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KMSP\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Officials have not shared information on what may have caused the pipe to rupture or an estimate of any damage cost to the facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story uses information shared by Allina Health.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/healthcare\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Health Care<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/us\/mn\/hennepin-county\/minneapolis\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minneapolis<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article File photo of Allina Health Abbott Northwestern Hospital.\u00a0 (FOX 9) MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) &#8211; Some Abbott Northwestern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253,33321,16950,33320,3,25],"class_list":["post-575728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-hennepin-county","tag-minneapolis","tag-mn","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}