HealthPartners

He is the board certified doctor in obesity medicine.

And he directs the Park Nicollet Comprehensive Weight Management Program at Park Nicollet.

He is, again, a wealth of knowledge.

And it's rare we have both these guys, especially Lem here, to help educate you guys on the medical side of these medications.

Simple, easy peasy.

So like Bill said, Len Botter.

I'm with Health Partners Park Nicollet.

I'll mostly be kind of speaking on my own, on behalf of myself, based on kind of my own experience tonight, just kind of as a disclosure.

The Hilarious World of Depression is a production of Papuchik in beautiful St. Paul, Minnesota.

The Hilarious World of Depression was co-created by American Public Media with support from Health Partners.

Our producer on the original interview was Chrissy Pease, senior producer Kate Moose.

Our theme song, Pagliacci, was written and performed by Rhett Miller.

With that in mind, how do you view Minnesota's red flag law?

law?So I, I think the case you're referring to was a case that we brought against HealthPartners.

Correct.

Yeah, that was a case we brought against HealthPartners on behalf of the family of...

And I'm trying to...

The case goes back, but it was the family of, uh-

Well, the, it's...

But the...

That has been failed under the last tutelage of Senator Amy Klobuchar.

Now, with that in mind, I'm gonna ask our listeners, if any of you wanna comment about the merger, health merger that is taking place right now, looks like it's gonna take place, uh, between HealthPartners- Which owns Regions Hospitals and healthcare centers down in the cities and, and other places in Minnesota, and Duluth Essentia, they both announced and proposed union, uh, their union members that they're going to merge.

The boards, the board of directors representing Essentia Health and Health Partners are proposing a merger to b- to combined the Minnesota-based non-profit healthcare systems.

Health Partners owns and operates Regions Hospitals in St. Paul.

All right, man.

Minnesota-based nonprofit health systems Health Partners and Essentia Health announced yesterday they are planning to merge.

The combined organization will be called Health Partners, and it'll include 22 hospitals, more than 35 clinics, and 6,000 clinicians across Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.

If the merger obtains regulatory approval, they'll begin operating as a single organization on January 1st.

Okay.

One of them is Mary Carlson, who's a social worker, and she has... talked and worked on this for, I don't know, 40 years or more, and she speaks about end-of-life topics quite often.

She's joined by the Reverend Edward Holland, and he has been the coordinator of spiritual care and grief support at Park Nicollet hospice in Minneapolis for over 35 years.

And he's done all kinds of other things.

He was a family therapist.

Park, closed in 2018.

It's on Park Nicollet Clinic now, according to Tyre Carver.

Park Nicollet.

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bad.