Hennepin Healthcare System Inc

Education & training: the center for learning integration excels in coordinating, designing, and integrating learning throughout the healthcare system with the priority goal to improve quality, safety, and experience outcomes for all stakeholders. Hennepin healthcare system, inc. (hhs) also operates the interdisciplinary simulation and education center, a training center that hosts educational programs for nurses, physicians, pre-hospital providers, and other allied health professionals from hhs and across the region. It is a guided, safe environment for healthcare professionals to simulate practice of real-life medical situations and procedures via state-of-the-art simulation equipment. Hhs emphasizes training the future healthcare workforce to meet community health needs. The advanced practice provider professional center provides organizational structure for nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Hhs cooperates with metropolitan state university to provide the dental therapist program which focuses on advanced dental therapy training opportunities in general and pediatric dentistry as well as oral surgery. Community physicians and other practitioners from across minnesota come to hhs for continuing medical education training courses. Hhs also conducts on-site training at the request of rural hospitals and clinics and has established relationships with other designated trauma centers and emergency departments across minnesota. The hhs emergency department maintains a free online database of diverse teaching materials including instructional videos, lectures, critical care conference presentations and videos, medical blogs, and educational links, all utilized by practitioners around the world.

Research: research focus includes addiction medicine and tobacco dependence treatment, bone infections and healing, cancer biology, chronic kidney diseases, cognitive issues in aging, diabetes and obesity, disparities in health care delivery and outcomes, emergency medicine, heart failure, hiv/aids, liver disease, pediatric disease prevention, food security, transplant availability and outcomes, and traumatic brain injury. The hennepin healthcare foundation connects the generosity of the community to the mission of hennepin healthcare system, inc.