When an employee working at Mille Lacs Health System has come into contact with Coronavirus at the facility, MLHS Infection Preventionist Vicki Engmark goes into contact tracing mode. Her job is to find exposure and risk, and notify anyone in the MLHS workplace who could potentially become infected…
Kelsey Merck, Physician Assistant, has joined the Mille Lacs Health System team of medical providers. Merck is a recent graduate from Augsburg University in Minneapolis, who did pre-PA shadowing at MLHS, then came back to do an emergency medicine rotation at the facility as a PA student. “I…
Mille Lacs Health System broke ground last week for their Next Chapter: Building Our Healthy Future expansion project. Due to the Coronavirus, a large-scale, traditional groundbreaking ̶ considered to be unsafe and not prudent by the MLHS board of directors ̶ wasn’t held. The project, to be…
This summer, Dermatologist Dr. Julie Hodge M.D. will be joining the Mille Lacs Health System family of care. The board-certified doctor has been in private practice since 1991. Her interest in dermatology was found at the intersection of humanism and science, where “good medicine is,” according to…
The Mille Lacs Health System COVID-19 Incident Command team met last Friday to discuss ongoing developments regarding the health system’s response to the Coronavirus. As of July 10, 277 patients have been tested, with 3 positives. In Mille Lacs County, there have been 36 confirmed cases and two…
