| Addiction Research & Education |
Develops new treatments to drug addiction of all types. |
| Alternative Medicine Research |
Measures effectiveness of complimentary practices like acupuncture and use of herbal remedies. |
| Alvin L. Schultz Research & Education |
Brings in visiting professors for Medical Grand Rounds and provides residents educational experiences. |
| Bruggemeyer Memorial Psychiatry |
Helps with urgent needs for patients receiving psychiatry services. |
| Berman Center for Clinical Research |
Supports clinical trials for treatments for conditions like high blood pressure, heart and kidney disease, stroke, diabetes. |
| Breast Cancer Research |
Provides ongoing support for national clinical trial of new drug therapies for breast cancer. |
| Burn Unit |
Meets the needs of burn patients and their families. |
| Cancer Center |
Provides for comforts and needs of cancer patients who are often too ill to work. |
| Cardiac Biomarkers Research |
Supports studies conducted on cardiac biomarkers-proteins released by damaged heart tissue that are indicative of heart failure. |
| Child Growth |
Provides equipment such as highchairs. |
| Childhood Hunger Research |
Explores the impact that food insecurity has on the health and development of children. |
| Children’s Literacy |
Encourages reading in young patients. |
| Dementia & Aging Research |
Finds ways to slow the development of dementia in geriatric patients with chronic illness. |
| Dental Health |
Meets the dental needs of children and patients with mental health issues or disabilities. |
| Dental Research |
Explores the link between dental health and general health of people and pregnant women. |
| Diabetes Research |
Studies newly arrived people to the U.S. and the progression of diabetes after acclimation. |
| Emergency Medicine Education |
Assists emergency department residents with CME tuition and other academic activities. |
| Emergency Medication Research |
Supports pain management research for patients in the emergency room. |
| Emergency Medical Services |
Improves the quality of EMS service to the community through teamwork and training. |
Environmental Impacts on Physician |
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| Satisfaction and Patient Outcomes |
Explores impact of working conditions on physician career satisfaction, mental health and patient outcomes. |
| Gastrointestinal/Liver Research |
Investigates the cellular processes involved in liver regeneration and diseases that affect the liver. |
| Geriatric Research |
Focuses on age-related diseases. |
| Heart Disease Research |
Supports basic science and clinical research trials for treatments. |
| Hennepin Medical History Center |
Preserves the legacy of HCMC and MMC. |
| HIV/AIDS |
Assists with urgent needs of HIV/AIDS persons. |
| HIV/AIDS Research |
Studies new drugs and management practices for people living with HIV/AIDs. |
| Huntington’s Disease Research |
Funds clinical trials on new treatments. |
| Inspire Arts |
Promotes creative experiences and an artistic environment for patients and families. |
| Kidney Transplantation Research |
Explores reasons why kidney transplants fail. |
| Lupus Disease Research |
Explores the benefits of a holistic approach to management of lupus symptoms. |
| Medical Home/Pediatrics |
Makes improvements in services provided to children with special health needs. |
| Mental-Illness Chemical Dependency |
Helps meet the urgent needs of MICD patients. |
| Minnesota Heart Failure Consortium |
Studies on treatments of heart failure. |
| Native American Assistance |
Assists with urgent needs, especially for families and patients who travel long distances for care. |
| NICU |
Assists parents who have a child here for extended periods of time with parking and transportation. |
| Orthopaedics & Biomechanics Research |
Explores solutions for everyday orthopaedic and biomechanic illnesses and injuries. |
| Paving a Way to Nursing |
Helps staff interested in nursing with some of the costs of education. |
| Pediatric Asthma Research |
Explores causes and treatments. |
| Pediatric Brain Injury |
Provides therapeutic and recreational activities for children with brain inquiries. |
| Pediatric ICU |
Provides resources to help family members remain at a child’s bedside for an extended period of time. |
| Pediatric Research, Education |
Studies pediatric health issues from conception to early adulthood. |
| Poison Center |
Provides information to families and professionals on drug doses. |
| Sexual Assault Resource Service |
Assists with immediate needs of assault victims. |
| Simulation Center |
Provides resources for simulated event learning. |
| Sleep Disorders Research |
Explores the causes and treatments. |
| Stroke Center |
Supports treatment of stroke patients and stroke prevention efforts. |
| Tobacco Treatment Research |
Studies for novel treatments of nicotine addiction. |
| Traumatic Brain Injury/Knapp Rehab |
Supports rehabilitation services to help patients reintegrate into their homes and communities. |
| Traumatic Brain Injury Research |
Investigations on ways to preserve cognitive abilities by improving oxygen delivery to brain tissue after injury. |
| Trauma Services |
Provides car seats and bike helmets and promotes injury prevention initiatives. |
Treating Depression in Pregnant and
Post-partum Women |
Supports a training program and a phone consultation line to build the capacity of providers to assess and treat affected women. |
| Urgent Needs Research |
Provides seed funding to initiate new research projects, bridge funding for continuing research and matching funding. |
| Women’s Assistance |
Meets urgent and unaffordable medical expenses for women and their families. |
| Volunteers |
Supports and recognizes volunteers as they dedicate hours of service. |