Children’s Minnesota to open inpatient mental health center at St. Paul hospital in late 2022
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The pandemic has exacerbated the mental health crisis experienced by youth. Across Minnesota and the nation, there aren’t enough psychiatric beds for kids who need them, leaving many spending days in our emergency room waiting for a bed to open up. As The Kid Experts™, we have a duty to meet the extraordinary care needs our community.
We are excited to open an inpatient mental health unit on our St. Paul campus at the end of 2022. Annually, the center is expected to care for more than 1,000 children and adolescents, meeting the urgent mental health needs of the most vulnerable kids in Minnesota and the region.
The inpatient unit will be the first in the east metro to serve kids under 12 years old, and one of few in the state to admit all kids, even those with other complex medical conditions.
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Ridgeview and Children’s Minnesota expand neonatal services to offer intensive care to premature babies in Waconia
Children’s Minnesota announced the expansion of its neonatal service offerings at Ridgeview’s hospital campus in Waconia, which will now offer families an enhanced Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), caring for babies as young as 30 weeks gestational age.
“We’re excited to be expanding our valued partnership with Ridgeview by providing even more highly specialized care to premature babies in Waconia and the surrounding region,” said Dr. Mark Bergeron, MD, MPH, Children’s Minnesota medical director of Ridgeview NICU. “Our goal is always to keep babies in their community because we know outcomes are best when parents are highly involved in their child’s care.”
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The Mayo Clinic – Children’s Minnesota Cardiovascular Collaborative
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In 2020, a collaboration for pediatric hearts was formed between Mayo Clinic and Children's Minnesota. Just one year later, The Mayo Clinic – Children’s Minnesota Cardiovascular Collaborative is now one of the largest and strongest pediatric cardiovascular programs in the country!
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Born with spina bifida: Odin is cared for by the experts at the Midwest Fetal Care Center
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All any mom hopes for is a safe pregnancy, a complication-free birth and a healthy and happy baby. For first-time mom Darby Muller, an unsettling discovery at her 20-week ultrasound made these wishes uncertain. When Darby, and her husband Brad, went in for a routine check-up at their family care provider in Fort Dodge, Iowa, the doctors diagnosed baby Muller with spina bifida, a birth defect that occurs when a section of the baby’s spinal column does not form properly and a gap appears.
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The five W’s of clinical guidelines
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Children’s Minnesota has created a number of clinical practice guidelines for health professionals that incorporate a review of the evidence and provide clear recommendations for managing certain conditions.
Dr. Gabrielle Hester, medical director of quality improvement at Children’s Minnesota notes, “The goal of guidelines is to make it easy for the provider to do the right thing. Providers are super busy and guidelines can get them evidence-based recommendations quickly to help make decisions for the patient in front of them.”
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Looking Deeper: Manifestations of COVID Related Stress in the Pediatric ENT Office
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Many of us are seeing the ongoing mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, as young kids and adolescents are struggling now more than ever with depression, anxiety and stress, often to overwhelming degrees, ending up in the emergency department and looking for hard-to-find inpatient mental health beds. But what about the kids who are processing their stress, anxiety and trauma primarily through physical symptoms? How might kids be presenting to our offices with physical complaints that are exacerbated by stress and how might we help them? Here to talk to us about a few ways that psychosocial symptoms show up in the pediatric ENT office is Dr. Tim Lander, medical director of our Pediatric ENT program here at Children’s Minnesota. Listen now.
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