Faribault, Minnesota Spend some time in Faribault and Rice County and you'll see why people love living here. The residents of Faribault and its surrounding region enjoy safe neighborhoods, affordable housing, high quality public and private schools, a gorgeous natural setting with a nearby nature center, and close proximity to Minneapolis-St. Paul as well as Rochester (about an hour to each city). All of those amenities combine with outstanding, accessible health care to create a high quality of life for the region's citizens. That top quality health care is where District One Hospital comes in, an acute care hospital with 66 beds (we're licensed for 99) that serves about 35,000 residents in the southern half of Rice County. Officially called the "hospital district," District One encompasses eight of the 14 townships in Rice County, as well as the cities of Faribault, Morristown, and Nerstrand. Two multi-specialty clinics serve the area, The Faribault Clinic-Allina Medical Group and the Cannon Valley Clinic-Mayo Health System, and play a major role in health care. The Orthopedic and Fracture Clinic is one of four Southeastern Minnesota locations in the Johnston Hall building on the health care campus. Residents, for the most part, can stay in the area when it comes to seeking health care, thanks to a growing array of services that is uncommon for a community the size of Faribault. Accordingly, the concept of responding to a community's needs truly fits our hospital.