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We are excited to hear our CEO, Jennifer, speak at Isuroon's 14th Anniversary Gratitude Dinner! Isuroon is a local organization that advocates for and empowers Somali women.

Online communities with regional providers can assist in teaching integrative health methods in treating chronic pain. Not all methods require pharmacological tools. Monthly virtual sessions connect Hennepin Healthcare experts and patient care providers with case-based learning. Learn about this topic and sign up for sessions. https://ow.ly/9Mvx50TVVlf

Nobody wants to be told their getting old(er), but it’s just a part of life. Though as we and those we care for age, how can we approach it in the best way possible? On the latest episode of The Healthy Matters Podcast, Dr. David Hilden is joined by Geriatric Physician Dr. Kerry Sheets of Hennepin Healthcare, she’s an expert on caring for older adults and how we can all benefit from “healthy aging.” She’ll shed some light on what this means and provide some helpful tips on how you and your loved ones can age gracefully. Listen now at healthymatters.org or wherever you get your podcasts.

Congratulations to Tracy, our October Medical Assistant of the Month! Tracy, who works in our Medicine Clinic, was nominated by her colleagues for truly embodying the spirit of an outstanding medical assistant. We are so grateful to have you as part of the Hennepin Healthcare family!

At the Hennepin Healthcare annual meeting on October 23, 170-plus team and community members heard updates on how we are advancing our mission and responding to the health care needs our community has identified. We celebrated the many ways we join with our community to create a healthier future—by bringing health care right to a new parent’s door, by not just treating trauma but preventing it, by modeling world-class health equity and racial justice in medicine, and by supporting our incredible team in their health equity and learning journey. Read the recap and watch the recording: https://ow.ly/E8oq50TUG3R

Our Doing Good for Hennepin Healthcare program received a generous donation! Thank you, Packet Power, for donating 360 sock kits! As we brace for cold weather, these will help our Community Paramedics who see neighbors in need of warm and dry socks. #PowerMonitoring #EnvironmentalMonitoring #livegenerously #seasonofgiving #mymplsdt #hereforlife If your company would like to schedule a future Doing Good event, visit https://lnkd.in/gJTZYzQj.

NEW EPISODE: On The Healthy Matters Podcast, Dr. David Hilden is joined by Dr. Kerry Sheets, a geriatrician and Senior Care Specialist at Hennepin Healthcare. Today’s topic is about caring for aging adults, what “healthy aging” means, and tips on how to achieve it. There’s no avoiding that we’re all getting older, however, there are keys to healthy aging and how to care for loved ones. Listen now at healthymatters.org or wherever you get your podcasts.

On the next episode of The Healthy Matters Podcast, Dr. David Hilden is joined by Geriatrician Dr. Kerry Sheets to discuss a topic that we will all have to deal with — aging and caring for aging adults. We’ll talk “healthy aging” and so much more starting this Sunday morning at healthymatters.org, or subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.

Happy Facilities Week! From keeping the lights on to plumbing to managing complex building systems, our Facilities Team exemplifies professionalism and commitment. We're grateful for their problem-solving skills and dedication to creating a healing environment. Thank you to this team for all they do!

Tim Kummer, MD – Emergency Medicine “The people that work at Hennepin Healthcare don’t think twice when I ask them, ‘Do you want to go to Tanzania and teach EMS?’ They say yes. That’s how passionate they are. A few colleagues and I are working with emergency physicians in Tanzania to support their mission to create a functional EMS system in the Kilimanjaro region and eventually expand it country-wide. An unexpected benefit for us is that our team members who go to Tanzania come back feeling more equipped to work with our large East African population in the Twin Cities. Locally, we’ve done a lot of new work with the opioid crisis in Minneapolis. We partnered with a treatment organization to place peer recovery specialists in our Emergency Department to engage with our patients. In our fleet of ambulances, we added Narcan kits and fentanyl test strips for our medics to hand out to anyone who wants them. We are also one of the first EMS systems in the country to have a paramedic-led protocol for administering medications to treat opioid use disorder in the pre-hospital setting. We mesh our knowledge with community feedback.” Hennepin Healthcare Foundation is proud to highlight authentic stories from the wide variety of human beings who connect with our mission. Follow more Humans of Hennepin Healthcare at https://lnkd.in/gVmPpfVB. #hennepinhumans #hereforlife #givehhf