Guest writer and patient of Hennepin County Medical Center’s Nurse-Midwife team shares some invaluable advice about miscarriages for mothers of angels and their support systems. We are proud to share Megan’s thoughtful and rarely-explored insight from her personal experience with miscarriage. (more…)
Last year marked 130 years of HCMC serving the community! There’s plenty to look forward to in 2018, including the grand opening of our new Clinic & Specialty Center, as well as our new brand and website launch. Thank you for contributing to our history and strengthening our relationship with the community. As we reflect back on 2017, we remember these top achievements: (more…)
Overcoming major orthopedic trauma is tough for anyone, even Mathieu Vezies who was healthy, athletic, and ready to take on the world. A bike-truck accident the summer after his high school graduation brought Mathieu months of pain, rehabilitation and a focus on his health and recovery after major orthopedic surgeries. It knocked him off his game for a while but, with the help of the staff at HCMC and the rehabilitating program at Knapp, Mathieu’s planned first college semester was changed only slightly. He stayed at home with his family, rehabilitating and taking his first semester college classes online. With such an amazing recovery, Mathieu was able to head off to college for the following spring semester.
“I spent ten days in intensive care and then two weeks as an inpatient in the Knapp Rehabilitation Center. The staff was amazing and really cared about my recovery. They helped me believe in myself. I had several surgeries, have a rod in my femur, and spent three months in a wheelchair.” But Mathieu is thankful and ready to take on the world. Read his story.
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that’s related to changes in seasons. Although SAD can occur for some people in the summer, it is most common in the late fall or winter months. SAD is also referred to as “the winter blues”, although it’s important to see your doctor if it becomes serious.
Symptoms of the winter blues and SAD –
Did you know that Hennepin Emergency Medical Services (EMS) staff every home game for the Twins, Lynx, Timberwolves, MN United, and the Vikings? As seasoned experts at staffing major sporting events, Hennepin EMS staff are hard at work preparing to staff EMS and paramedic services for Super Bowl LII – before, during, and after.
We interviewed Mike LeVake, Jordan Wardell, and Charles Sloan III of Hennepin EMS for the inside scoop on how they’re getting ready, their favorite parts of staffing NFL games, and tips for all of us – local or visiting – as we rapidly approach the Super Bowl. (more…)
Increased public awareness of the potential consequences of concussion has raised concern about the safety of youth sports. While football, hockey and other predominantly male contact sports capture much of the media attention about concussion, females are uniquely at risk and report a higher duration and severity of concussion symptoms after an injury. Recent studies indicate that when boys and girls play the same sport – such as hockey or soccer, girls have a higher incidence of concussion. (more…)
Scouring through chemical equations in textbooks, using laboratory instruments to probe the molecular signatures of cancer cells, and preparing for an exam that will encompass over ten subjects from organic chemistry to literary reasoning are all excellent descriptions of my daily life. I’m a fourth-year undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, and I want to become a physician scientist. For students like myself who will be training for many years for highly developed fields, it is important to have a strong foundation in academic coursework and basic research experience before developing expertise in later stages. Yet I also think that during this early phase it is equally critical that we learn how to maintain perspective as to why we’re doing all this in the first place – what motivates us to sacrifice weekends, lose sleep, and constantly push ourselves to learn more. As such, on Friday nights, I let go of all concerns about assignments and immerse myself in the setting I dream of someday helping people in — a setting that is over ten years of training away and yet pervades my every thought and action: I go to Hennepin County Medical Center’s Emergency Stabilization Room.
When someone experiences a dire medical emergency or traumatic injury and they are brought to HCMC, they go to what’s called the “stabilization room.” Most people don’t know that this room exists, but the patients who require it suddenly find they have gained an all-access pass as its guest of honor. Upon entering the stabilization room, located within the emergency department, one first notices partitions dividing the room into quadrants, each with their own bed to accommodate a critical patient, and illuminated by piercing white light. It is not unlike how one might imagine the inside of an alien spaceship to appear. Adorned with an incredible density of state-of-the-art technology, this room is capable of handling every type of emergency procedure imaginable. (more…)
Jessie Krone, a former patient at HCMC, is incredibly thankful for both of her children. her oldest child, Logan, is a healthy happy young man in his mid-teens. Her youngest, daughter Molli, came into the world last year giving Jessie and her family quite a scare. (more…)
