$3.4M in expenses

Innovations in patient care: programs funded in this area help to improve the patient and family experience, reduce barriers to health care access, assist with social determinants of health and launch innovations in care delivery. Examples of funded activities include volunteer services, inspire arts program, children's literacy, redleaf center for family healing, renovations to patient and family waiting areas, and a variety of specific department funds for urgent patient needs.

$1.6M in expenses

Educating the workforce of tomorrow: HHS is the state's primary training center for physicians, nurses, ancillary care, pre-hospital emergency personnel and other health professions. Funded programs include: talent garden program with youth summits exposing youth to future careers in medicine, a scholarship program to assist employees in nonpatient care areas in entering health careers, various ongoing training funds for hospital departments and clinics, a fund to support emergency medicine residency education and hennepin medical history center which collects, preserves and interprets the history of HHS, metropolitan medical center and its organizational predecessors.

$830K in expenses

Trauma and critical care: provides funding to patient care services related to HHS's level 1 trauma designation. Funded programs include patient comfort in traumatic brain injury, the burn unit, stroke, heart health, poison control and toxicology care, care during and after transplant, and care in dealing with the effects of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse and neglect. Operating the largest, multi-chamber hyperbaric oxygen (hbo) changer in the state, the hbo provided over 4,500 treatments in 2024. The minnesota regional poison center, north and south dakota, managed at HHS, handled over 59,100 calls in 2024.

$288K in expenses

Clinical research: insights provided by medical research at hennepin healthcare look to lessen the impact of today's health problems. Research priorities include: addiction, covid-19, health services, infectious disease/HIV, and acute care/trauma. Financial support can impact the success of this research directed by hennepin healthcare research institute.