Come out to support the LQBTQ+ community this weekend, June 25-26 at Loring Park to celebrate the Twin Cities Pride Festival! Visit the Hennepin Healthcare table and meet team members from many specialties, including Between Us where you can learn about our services and ask health questions. We’ve pulled together some history and a quick snap shot of the some of the feature organizations, businesses and artists you can meet this weekend: (more…)
Over 150 young women ages 12-18 years old recently visited our campus to learn about healthcare careers during our Black Women with Stethoscopes Youth Summits on April 30 and May 15. Youth learned that not only are these careers within reach, but that they can play a critical role in delivering culturally-centered care and help decrease health disparities. Black Women with Stethoscopes is the second series of youth summits from our Talent Garden program, which connects youth of color to opportunities in medicine and healthcare. (more…)
As we celebrate Donate Life month in April, a promotion to increase awareness about organ, tissue and eye donation and what that can mean to others, we annually raise the Donate Life flag in a celebration on our campus.
This year, the celebration included a kidney donor and the recipient of his kidney, who actually met for the first time last fall. (more…)
This fall the Integrative Health team at Hennepin Healthcare has joined with the international non-profit organization Walk with a Doc to promote healthy movement and community. Starting on Sat. Nov 20th at 10am, Dr. Shawn Olson will lead a fun and relaxing walk through the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden . We will meet under the Cowles Pavilion (the big glass pavilion near the Walker Art Center) where Dr. Olson will give a brief wellness talk and then lead a stroll-at-your-own-pace-and-distance walk through the park. If the weather is bad, we’ll move the walk to the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Both spaces are free, open to the public, and offer the opportunity to explore the healing power of the intersection of art and movement. (more…)
Are you ready, in the case of a traumatic life-ending event, to donate parts of your body to save someone’s life, if your own life was at an end?
April is Donate Life month. Donate Life month serves to create awareness about how registering to be a donor is an incredible act of kindness and bravery. Donate Life month also honors those who saved and enhanced lives through the selfless act of donation. (more…)
Remember when the first Friday of February, during National Heart Month, was designated as Go Red for Women and they had the little red dress pin? ( I still have and love that pin!) And now we are asked to wear red on the same day to raise awareness of heart disease for all? (more…)
November 20, 2020 is the 61st anniversary of the World’s Children’s Day, which commemorates the Declaration of the Rights of the Child that passed by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on November 20, 1959. The rights of children have evolved and transformed since that historic day. In 1989, the UN put in place the Convention on the Rights of the Child to expand upon the Declaration and formulate a series of specific provisions further define these rights. They fall into three pillars: (more…)
Although sometimes it seems the world has stopped and everything is focused on the world of COVID-19, strokes don’t care. They still happen.
Take a step back and remember or learn the signs of a stroke – BE FAST! Strokes don’t just happen to the elderly. Increasingly, younger people are experiencing strokes. And more importantly, you need to call 911. (more…)
