February 13, 2025
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) Lead Poisoning Prevention Program has released the 2025 revisions of the Childhood Blood Lead Treatment Guidelines for Minnesota and its Childhood Blood Lead Case Management Guidelines for Minnesota.
These treatment and case management guidelines were revised based on feedback from a multi-disciplinary workgroup consisting of healthcare and public health professionals, professional healthcare associations, and other relevant partners.
MMA Member Maria Starchook-Moore, MD, MPH served on the workgroup that revised the guidelines. At its December 2024 meeting, the MMA Board of Trustees voted to endorse and support the updated Childhood Blood Lead Treatment Guidelines and Childhood Blood Lead Case Management Guidelines for Minnesota.
Small updates were also made to the Childhood Blood Lead Screening Guidelines for Minnesota. These newly revised guidelines, and all other blood lead guidelines, are available at MDH Blood Lead Level Guidelines.
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.