As schools in Minnesota and around the country prepare to open in a few weeks — whether in-person, hybrid or remotely — teachers and school officials aren’t just scrambling to figure out how to keep students learning. They’re trying to figure out how to help students handle their mental health.
Read MoreSince March, almost every nonemergency medical visit has been conducted through video chats or on the telephone to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Telemedicine or telehealth is not new, but the pandemic has caused health care systems to rapidly pivot to online doctor’s visits. How is it going and is it here to stay?
Read MoreOne cooperative that insures cities across the state recently raised premiums by 9 percent.
Read MoreSome contend the contracts harm patients and worsen the provider shortage, but hospitals say they keep the costs of health care down.
Read MorePatients in need of inpatient psychiatric care are waiting days to be transferred to beds far from home.
Read MoreThe nation’s shortage of psychiatrists is especially acute in remote areas, leaving many people without access to the care they need
Read MoreMinneapolis and St. Paul are proposing new city ordinances that would ban gay conversion therapy, the controversial treatment designed to change people’s sexual orientation or sexual identity.
Read MoreA close call in one Minneapolis family illustrates the challenge of keeping guns away from people who shouldn’t have one
Read MoreFor a long time, the address 1800 Chicago in Minneapolis has been synonymous with detox. As in, end-of-the-road, hit-rock-bottom detox. Now Hennepin County is turning the facility into a one-stop shop for services ranging from detox to mental health care to help signing up for low-income housing. It’s designed to keep people with mental health and substance use problems out of jail and hospitals.
Read MoreEvery year, between 300 and 400 doctors kill themselves — about one a day. That's about twice the rate of the general population and the highest of any profession. Doctors also have high rates of burnout, depression and substance use.
Read MoreUnitedHealth Group is rejecting some demands of the plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of being too stingy in its coverage of mental health care.
Read MoreIn February, a federal judge in California ruled the Minnetonka-based health insurer denied claims for behavioral health care based on overly restrictive guidelines that put profit over patients. Now, in a proposed remedy, the plaintiffs' attorneys want UnitedHealth to adopt new guidelines and take another look.
Read More50,000 are people challenging UnitedHealth's standards for behavioral care. U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero recently ripped the Twin Cities-based insurer for placing an "excessive emphasis" on paying for treatments during a crisis while ignoring "effective treatment of ... underlying conditions."
Read MoreArgosy University, a national for-profit college with a big campus in Eagan, Minn., suddenly closed last month. Argosy had carved out a specialty in mental health care. It once trained about a fifth of the Twin Cities' licensed psychologists, by one former dean's estimate. Its closing has left students stranded and local mental health leaders worried about how to meet the state's already widening demand for psychologists.
Read MoreEach year, one in five Minnesotans faces some sort of mental health condition. But there are just not enough professionals to help. This hour on MPR News, we asked how Minnesotans can get the help they need for their mental health.
Read MoreMPR News Morning Edition Host Cathy Wurzer hosts an expert panel to learn more about the public health problem of suicide and what can be done about it.
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