October 26, 2023
The MMA will present a virtual forum on “Counseling Against Lethal Means: Why Focusing on the HOW People Attempt Suicide Saves Lives” from noon to 1 pm on Wednesday, November 8.
The session will be led by Joshua Stein, MD, general and child adolescent psychiatrist, clinical director at the PrairieCare Brooklyn Park Partial Hospital Program. Thomas E. Kottke, MD, MSPH, medical director for wellbeing, HealthPartners and senior clinical investigator at the HealthPartners Institute will serve as moderator.
The forum objectives include:
Build immediate lifesaving skills that can be implemented into a daily practice
Walk through language around firearms that avoid politics and focuses on immediate safety
How to protect our peers - with a specific focus on the well-being of physicians and warning signs when a peer needs help
Click here to register.
Thanks to forum sponsor – COPIC.
July 10, 2025
With the passage of President Trump’s budget bill, many in healthcare are wondering how it will affect the practice of medicine in the United States, and how it will impact the health of Minnesotans.
July 10, 2025
With an overwhelming 90% vote of support, Allina Health physicians, physicians’ assistants, and nurse practitioners voted to authorize a strike if the members of the Doctors Council – SEIU and Allina cannot reach a deal.
July 10, 2025
The Minnesota Department of Health’s (MDH) Equitable Health Care Task Force is seeking public comment on its draft recommendations for improving health equity across the state.