Hennepin Healthcare

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

We're pleased to welcome Mohamed Omar, MBA, MS as our new Chair of the Board of Directors. With this appointment, Omar makes history by becoming the first Somali American hospital board chair in the state of Minnesota – and perhaps one of the first in the country. Omar says, “Three years ago, I chose to serve on the Hennepin Healthcare board because I share this organization’s commitment to deliver high-quality, equitable care to all our patients. We can do this by building a board and leadership team that reflects the diversity of our patients and our community. My commitment is to deepen our community engagement, build more authentic connections between patients and team members, and build a confident future together.” CEO Jennifer DeCubellis expressed her appreciation for the three years of leadership Omar has already dedicated to the Board and for his willingness to assume this important role: “We are privileged to have a partner like Omar leading our board as we strive to carry out our mission more effectively each day. A stronger, more inclusive leadership team is the best way for us to become a stronger, more inclusive healthcare system. We are incredibly grateful that our Hennepin Healthcare Board, team, and patients will benefit from his leadership experience and his deep commitment to the health of our community.”

The U.S. Surgeon General recently released an advisory on the mental health and well-being of parents. Parents are under pressure, but they don’t have to be. Learn how we can minimize the stress through culture change, self initiative and community: https://lnkd.in/gGcKaz36

Do you ever feel like you're "falling" when you're falling asleep? Our own Dr. Ranji Varghese, head of one of the original sleep centers in the country here at Hennepin Healthcare, explains what happens in the transition from being awake to being asleep. https://lnkd.in/gcVWfxU2

#1Thing every domestic violence victim should know is that there is help. Advocates at the National Domestic Violence Hotline and loveisrespect are here to listen. Call 1-800-799-SAFE or 1-800-787-3224 TTY or chat online at thehotline.org, or text LOVEIS to 22522. #DVAM