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- Minnesota’s premier Level 1 Trauma Center with many nationally recognized
programs and specialties
- The third largest hospital in Minnesota, based on operating revenue
- An essential teaching hospital for doctors who go on to practice throughout the state
- A safety net hospital providing care for low-income, the uninsured and vulnerable populations, and
- A major employer and economic engine in downtown Minneapolis.
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We are committed:
to provide the best possible care to every patient
we serve today;
to search for new ways to improve the care we will provide tomorrow;
to educate health care providers for the future; and
to ensure access to healthcare for all.
We are committed to being:
the best place to receive care;
the best place to give care; and
the best place to work and learn.
What is today Hennepin County Medical Center began in
1887 as City Hospital. In 1964, Hennepin County assumed ownership of the hospital. After local voters approved a $25 million dollar bond issue in 1969, a new hospital facility was completed in 1976. Also that year, Hennepin County Medical Center started sharing some services with the adjacent Metropolitan Medical Center. When that hospital closed in 1991, Hennepin County Medical Center purchased its buildings.
Our history includes a series of firsts in the metro area – services or programs started to meet community needs that others were unable provide. These include:
• The Hennepin Regional Poison Center.
• The Regional Kidney Disease Program, whose founder, Dr. Claude Hitchcock, performed the first transplantation surgery and first hemodialysis in the region during the early 1960s.
• The Nurse-Midwife Service, which celebrated 45 years of service in 2006.
• The Burn Center, which has pioneered skin culturing.
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| 2006 Statistics (download pdf here) |
| Staffed Beds |
422 |
| Discharges (Adults and Pediatrics) |
22,062 |
| Patient Days |
118,880 |
| Births |
2,995 |
| Clinic Visits |
306, 474 |
| Emergency Services visits (includes Urgent Care) |
102,052 |
Emergency Medical Services
(Ambulance Runs) |
54,407 |
| Surgeries |
9,286 |
| Radiology exams |
164,861 |
| Acute Psychiatric Services visits |
11,082 |
| Poison Information Center contacts |
100,747 |
| Interpreter Services patient encounters |
121,476 |
| Lab Tests |
3,207,986 |
| Pharmacy |
591,104 |
| Hyperbaric Chamber treatments |
3,095 |
| Licensed Beds |
910 |
| Average Daily Census |
326 |
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• The Sleep Disorders Center, whose physicians have identified two new sleep disorders.
• The Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Program, for patients who wish to avoid transfusions.
Another service
that Hennepin County Medical Center established to
meet an urgent community need was begun
in the late
1970s and has now developed into a full-scale Interpreter
Services Program. What began in 1978 with three part-time, temporary
Southeast Asian interpreters now includes more than 50
full-time interpreters
of
42 languages including Russian, Somali, Spanish, Hmong, Vietnamese,
Lao, and Cambodian. Interpreters for an additional 60-plus languages are
available on a freelance basis.
Responding
to the needs of the community is a tradition that began at Hennepin County Medical Center with caring
for the victims of typhoid epidemics before the turn of the century. It
is a tradition of which the current staff members are very proud and one
they hope to uphold far into the future.
In 2007, the Hennepin County Board transferred direct operation of Hennepin County Medical Center from the County Board to Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc. a new public subsidiary corporation owned by Hennepin County. The system’s 13-member board includes leaders from the community with expertise in health care, finance, human resources, human services, public policy, education, and the public sector. The County Board retains oversight of the safety net mission and authority over the operating budget, capital plans, and the county owns the hospital assets.
Board of Directors
Executive Leadership
The Hennepin County Medical Center campus occupies five city blocks near the Metrodome
in downtown Minneapolis and operates primary care clinics on West and East Lake Street
in Minneapolis and in Richfield
and Brooklyn Center.
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