The Minnesota Department of Health’s (MDH) Office of Rural and Primary Health Care (ORPHC) announced that Sawtooth Mountain Clinic received the 2024 Minnesota Rural Health Team Award.

The Minnesota StarTribune ran an editorial on Monday referencing the closure of both independent and chain pharmacies. 

MNACHC got a letter to the editor published in Tuesday’s edition as a response.

The CDC released 2023 data for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) this week. The report notes that the epidemic may be slowing as:

NACHC announced this week that Direct Relief will make adult Covid-19 vaccines available to health centers and and health center look-alikes.

Last Friday, Southside CHS CEO Ann Cazaban and a list of dignitaries broke ground on the One Southside - a 30,000 sq/ft integrated health community clinic located in the historically significant East Lake Street community of South Minneapolis.

MNACHC mourns the passing of Bill Tendle, former Executive Director of Southside CHS, for 20 years, starting in 1997. The full obituary can be found here.

MDH’s Health Economics Program (HEP) released a final report recommending the “broad availability and use of telehealth as a tool to deliver health care services” in Minnesota. The report is in response to the Legislature’s directive in 2021.

Yesterday, HRSA announced $240 million in awards to launch and expand mental health and substance use disorder services in more than 400 health centers nationwide.

MDH’s Health Care Homes program highlighted the work of People’s Center Clinics & Services (PCCS) in their latest newsletter.