Events – Here for Life

Walk with a Doc

November 17, 2021

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 20^th 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…)

Donate Life

April 15, 2021

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…)

Go red for women or just wear red day, which is it? Either way, February 5th wear red! Here’s why:

January 29, 2021

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…)

Celebrating World Children’s Day: Our commitment to provide for, protect and encourage children to participate

November 17, 2020

November 20, 2020 is the 61^st 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…)

May is stroke awareness month

May 8, 2020

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…)

Nurses Week 2020: Honoring the light of our nurses and frontline staff as we find our “flo”

May 6, 20201

200 years ago, Florence Nightingale – the founder of modern nursing – was born. Florence became known as the “Lady with the Lamp” as she rounded on wounded soldiers at night during the Crimean War. 200 years later during Nurses Week 2020, we find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic.

In the spirit of Florence, May 6 through May 12 we’re honoring the light and wisdom of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic and throughout history. Although May 12 is now past us, we honor nurses every day. (more…)

Melanoma Monday is still a thing!

April 29, 20202

As we watch our new normal evolve, we must, in the midst of this chaos, remember to take control of our own personal health and wellbeing. Something so vital cannot get lost in this coronavirus madness.

The first Monday of May we have always promoted ‘Melanoma Monday’ – a conscious reminder to take care of our skin and prevent melanoma, one of the least common but most deadly forms of skin cancer. Our dermatologists and residents would block time out of their busy clinic schedules to freely offer spot checks to our employees and the community who had a concern about a mole that seemed to change or become suspicious. (more…)

Local artist illustrates a day in the life at Hennepin Healthcare in 160 moments over 24 hours

November 18, 20193

At 1 pm, she was in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, sketching baby Emanuel as he is cradled in his mother’s arms.

At 4 am, she was in the Emergency Department, sketching a hallway of exam rooms and the sounds that were coming from each.

At 11 am, she was in the kitchen, sketching an assembly line of food workers as they put food on trays that would soon be lunch for hospitalized patients.

Over the course of a year and a half, local artist Anita White captured moments at Hennepin Healthcare that spanned every hour of the day – all 24 hours of it. She visited places as varied as the Emergency Department and Pediatric Clinic to Food Services and Hospice. She observed patients, families, and staff at the moment of care, and then she made sense of those moments by drawing them.

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