June 2, 2022
Beginning July 18, the MMA will host a series of noon-time sessions called “Project ECHO: Navigating Transition for Youth with Medical Complexity to Adult Care.”
The purpose of this project, which is funded by a grant from COPIC Medical Foundation, is to develop a sustainable and collaborative knowledge-sharing community to improve the transition from pediatric to adult care for youth with medical complexity.
“Thanks to clinical and technological advances, many children with medical complexity now live into adulthood,” said Tori Bahr, MD, associate medical director of pediatrics at Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare, and the project’s medical advisor. “However, these patients face numerous practical hurdles in moving from pediatric care to adult providers. The project aims to improve the competence and confidence of Minnesota adult primary care clinicians to manage youth with complex conditions, thereby increasing the capacity and number of such clinicians willing to accept new patients.”
The online sessions begin July 18 and will continue through early 2023. A summit that will summarize much of the learning in the sessions will take place in March of 2023.
Stay tuned to MMA News Now for registration information, as it becomes available.
For more information visit the MMA website at www.mnmed.org/ECHO.
October 9, 2025
The MMA is partnering with Hennepin Healthcare to offer an in-person session on “Supporting Patients, Families, and Professionals in the Aftermath of Crisis” on October 21 from 6 to 8 pm in Room RL110 at the HCMC Red Building, 730 South 8th Street, in Minneapolis.
October 9, 2025
The MMA, in partnership with the Wisconsin Medical Society, will lead a panel discussion titled "The Role of Medical and Professional Societies in Supporting Clinicians and Community Health" at the Transforming Community and Rural Healthcare 2025: Bold Innovation and Partnerships symposium, to be held on October 27-28, at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester.
October 2, 2025
The federal government shutdown will affect the Minnesota healthcare system in several important ways.