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Pro-life support for pregnant women, including: - 24-hour voicemail - Community resource referrals - Educational classes - Infant supplies - Life skills education - Maternity clothing - Pregnancy tests - Pro-life peer counseling - Second Story: Provides a transitional housing/life skills program for pregnant or new moms - Sleep Safely Program: A "learn and earn" program where parents learn about infant care and development, preventing abusive head trauma, and reducing the risk of SIDS, and receive a new baby crib, mattress, and bedding - Work readiness program Does not offer or refer to abortion services.

Provides adult and children's dentistry services including: - Cleanings and oral hygiene instructions - Crowns and bridges - Dental exams - Dentures and partials - Digital x-rays - Fillings and extractions - Limited root canals - Oral surgery referrals - Sealants and fluoride treatments

Provides in person and phone consultations to help individuals and families apply for health care programs, including MinnesotaCare, Medical Assistance (MA), and MNsure. Services may include assistance with: - Applying for private health insurance plans - Dental care insurance and finding low-cost dental care services - Emergency insurance - Hospital financial aid applications - Renewing health insurance - Referrals to community and social services

Provides child and teen checkups for children, teens, and young adults who are enrolled in or eligible for Medical Assistance. The county can also assist families in finding a local provider and transportation for the checkups. The checkups include: - Age-appropriate information on health, nutrition, and safety - Dental referral and oral health resources - Growth and development screenings - Hearing screenings - Immunizations - Lab tests - Oral health screening - Physical exams - Social-emotional screenings - Vision screenings

Offers several services to the community, such as: - Cultural Preservation and Pride: Provides festivals, storytelling circles, and cultural showcases encompassing identity and culture - Economic Independence: Provide programs and tools to help families build economic independence including job training, business consulting, and financial literacy programs - First-Generation Student Scholarship and Mentorship: Offer academic and scholarship resources, college readiness support, and mentorship to help students achieve their educational goals - Information and Resources: Connect families to culturally competent resources in health care and mental health services - Immigration and Legal Education: Offers information to immigrant families about immigration and provide referrals to legal resources

Provides dental services including: - Cleanings ?- Exams ?- Fillings ?- Restorative and preventative services ?- X-rays ?- Emergency screening and referrals Services not offered: Root canals, crowns, bridges, implants, braces, teeth whitening, or oral surgery

Speech - Language Therapy Speech therapists do a comprehensive assessment to check: An individual's ability to understand language An individual's swallowing ability An individual's thinking skills and memory The quality of an individual's voice The way an individual speaks and whether their speech is clear Depending on an individual's condition, a therapist may recommend: Articulation therapy Augmentative and/or alternate communication methods Breathing and relaxation techniques Exercises Language intervention activities Positions or strategies to help an individual swallow more easily Speech Therapy for Children A child may benefit from speech-language therapy if he or she experiences: Feeding or Swallowing Disorders: Problems eating or drinking Language Disorder: Difficulty understanding or communicating Speech Disorder: Difficulty making sounds Transgender Care Services Adult and pediatric endocrinology Hormone treatments Primary care, which includes basic health screenings - Referrals to: Community resources Mental health counseling Specialists, including in gynecologic surgery and urological surgery Transgender support groups Surgery including breast augmentation surgery and masculinizing chest surgery Voice training from speech-language therapist

Provides a directory of free or reduced-cost dental clinics and programs throughout Minnesota, including special services for children, the elderly, disabled, or medically compromised individuals. Special resources where limited amounts of reduced cost or free dental services are offered under certain circumstances, such as: - UCare Toothcare Mobile Unit: For eligible UCare Members - Donated Dental Services (Dental Lifeline Network): For persons living with a disability, older adults, or medically compromised individuals. Free comprehensive dental services for those who qualify. Specific criteria and application required. Some counties may have a waiting list of a year or more. - Give Back a Smile Program: Special program for battered women. - Give Kids a Smile Program: Volunteer professionals provide free dental services for children throughout Minnesota in early February each year. (See separate listing) - Mission of Mercy: A two-day volunteer event in which free dental services are provided for children, adults, and the elderly by volunteer professionals. - Smiles Change Lives: Provides orthodontic care throughout Minnesota for children ages 10-18 who have a significant malocclusion, can be treated in one stage, have good oral hygiene and cannot afford orthodontic treatment. Specific eligibility criteria and a treatment fee of $600 required. Application is required to be accepted into the program.

The availability of financial assistance/vouchers varies month by month and may be limited to partial payments depending on the amount owed and funds available. Financial emergency assistance may be available once every 12 months and considered on a case-by-case basis for the following services: - Food vouchers - Furniture vouchers and referrals to Bridging to receive furniture - Gas money vouchers or gift cards are available once every 6 months, depending upon the situation - HeatShare program provides fuel oil, gas, and electric payment assistance to avoid disconnection - Information and referral for eye care and food shelf - Networking support - Other financial assistance for emergencies beyond the individual's control - Pathway of Hope: Mentoring program for families. Provides help with attaining goals. - Rent payment assistance - School supplies available seasonally? - Seasonal family and kids' day and weekend camps - Sewer, trash, and water service payment assistance - Vehicle repair cost assistance - Winter outerwear

All Birthright services are free, confidential and provide: - 24 hours/7 days a week helpline and live chat through the website - Free resources for maternity and baby items and pregnancy tests - Information about pregnancy, childbirth, adoption, prenatal care, community programs, parenting skills, and child care - Referrals for medical support, financial resources, housing, legal, social assistance, and professional counseling

Help desk can help with: - Minnesota Health Care Programs ID card requests - Finding providers who accept Minnesota Health Care Programs coverage - Questions about services covered under fee-for-service - Coverage if you are out of the state - Status of claims - Spend downs - Prior authorizations - Home care service agreements - Explanation of Medical Benefits requests People enrolled in a health plan need to contact their health plan's member services with questions about covered services. For questions about eligibility or need to report household, income or asset changes, contact the home county office or MinnesotaCare.

Provides community health programs such as: - Child and Teen Checkup Outreach: Helps families find a doctor, dentist, psychologist, and transportation - Disease and Prevention Control: Monitor and investigate potential disease processes through adult/child immunizations, communicable disease prevention programs, emergency preparedness plans, surveillance of the county's environment, and tuberculosis screening - Environmental Health: Help protect the residents from environmental health hazards through programs to reduce exposure to health risks, such as food and waterborne diseases, radiation, occupational health hazards, and public health nuisances. Provides radon, lead, and well water education. - Follow-Along Program: Provides parents with information about their child's development during infancy and early childhood through mailing questionnaires - Health Promotion: Provides presentations and/or materials on health topics for small and large groups. Topics may include chemical and tobacco use prevention, family health, mental health, nutrition, and physical activity - Public Health Preparedness for Emergencies: Funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in partnership with local, state, and territorial public health departments to provide assistance to public health departments across the nation. Helps health departments strengthen abilities to effectively respond to a range of public health threats, including infectious diseases, natural disasters, and biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological events.

Pro-life pregnancy support services, including: - Confidential pregnancy testing - Life coaching services - Material Assistance: Diapers and wipes, formula, maternity and baby clothing, cribs, and car seats - Pre-natal and parenting classes - Referrals for adoption services, financial aid, housing, legal assistance, and medical care - STI testing and treatment - Ultrasounds

- Accepts donations of gently used baby items (except car seats and cribs), blankets, bouncers, diapers, wipes, baby wash, formula, high chairs, maternity clothes, swings, toys, books, stuffed animals, pacifiers, and clothing/shoes from newborn up to size 3T ??- Car seat safety seminars - Classes in breastfeeding, budgeting, childbirth, child care, food/nutrition, housing, infant care, life coaching, parenting, and more - Individuals may receive a new infant car seat or convertible car seat when they take two classes and the car seat safety seminar - Community referrals to child care, food, education, employment, housing (including assistance in searching for housing), job assistance, physicians, and more - Peer counseling - Pregnancy testing - Provides baby clothing, coats, snow suits, hats, mittens, scarves, shoes, furniture, emergency diapers, wipes, blankets, maternity clothing, Pack N Plays, and formula - Pro-life pregnancy educational counseling on abortion and alternatives - Ultrasound services

Offers care for those who want to go through medical transition, for those who have already transitioned and for those who don't wish to transition. This includes general primary care as well as services that are gender affirming. Gender Services Adult and pediatric endocrinology Hormone treatments Primary care, which includes basic health screenings - Referrals to: Community resources Mental health counseling Specialists, including in gynecologic surgery and urological surgery Transgender support groups Surgery including breast augmentation surgery and masculinizing chest surgery Voice training from speech-language therapist

- Provides preventive and promotive counseling to families with primary focus on expectant mothers, postpartum mothers and infants - A Public Health nurse will: - Make prenatal visits to expectant mothers - Visit new parents, babies, and children 0-3 yr. - Visit with families of children with special needs - Assist families in attaining government assistance programs like WIC - Make referrals to physicians, inter-agency early childhood intervention, social services and other related outreach programs as needed

- Annual public glaucoma screenings - Referrals to eye doctors statewide - Medical eye care information via website

Lists nursing assistants who have met Minnesota training and testing standards to work in nursing homes and certified boarding care homes. The registry also has information about nursing assistants who have substantiated findings of abuse, neglect, and theft. This is not an online registry. Instead, nursing assistants, employers, and others can check the registry by using the department's automated phone system (the nursing assistant's social security number is required.)

Access to well-child checkups for children and teens up to age 21, including young parents, who are on Medical Assistance or MinnesotaCare. Services include: - Assistance in locating a medical or dental clinic - Assistance in making an appointment - Arranging for transportation to these appointments - Arranging for interpreters if needed at appointments - Connecting families to community resources Appointments may include: - A physical exam - Baby Tracks program to help parents and guardians stay up to date with infant and childhood immunizations - Developmental, growth, and mental health screenings - Hearing and vision checks - Lab tests - Regular dental appointments - Information about physical health, mental health, healthy habits, and nutrition Visit website to find a local Child and Teen Checkup Clinic.

Pro-life pregnancy support services, including: - Friendship and emotional support - Confidential medical referrals - Friendship and emotional support - Housing referrals - Legal referrals ?- Maternity clothes and baby clothes. Donations of new and used maternity and baby clothing that is clean and in good condition. - Pregnancy tests - Professional referrals

- Billing: (612)262-9000 - Birth Center: (763)236-8400 - Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute - Mercy Hospital: (612)236-8910 - Foundation: (763)263-3961 - General Surgery Clinic: (763)236-9000 - Heart and Vascular Center: (866)450-7999 - Intensive Care Unit (ICU): (763)236-8300 - Joint Replacement Center: (763)236-8860 - M-Power Health and Fitness Center: (763)236-8024 - Medical Imaging: (763)236-0808 - Medical Records: (612)262-2300 - Lung Program: (763)236-0808 - Laboratory: (763)236-8158 - Orthopedics: (763)946-9777 - Orthopedics Clinic: (763)236-8910 - Patient Pre-registration: (612)262-5335 - Pharmacy: (763)236-7111 - Physician Referral (Find a Doctor): (612)262-3333 or (800)877-7878 - Respiratory Services: (763)236-6867 - Robotic-Assisted Surgery: (763)236-6000 - Spine Care: (800)827-8313 - Virginia Piper Cancer Institute: (763)236-0808

- Pregnancy testing - Ultrasound scan if positive pregnancy test (up to 14 weeks) - STI testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea - Life coaching provided by certified Life Coaches - Referrals to primary care physicians - Referrals to 200+ community resources and partners

Provides specialty medical services, including: - Birthing center and prenatal care - Cancer care - Cardiovascular - Imaging - Mammograms - Neurology - Organ Transplant care - Orthopedic care - Pediatrics - Primary care - Spine care - Ultrasound

- Billing (612)262-9000 - Care Management (763)684-7700 - Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute (763)684-3888 - Laboratory (763)684-7855 - Medical and Surgical Nursing Desk (763)684-7600 - Medical Records (612)262-2300 - Patient Pre-registration (763)684-3800 - Patient Representatives (763)684-7138 - Physician Referral (612)262-3333 or (800)877-7878 - Price Estimate for Medical Services (612)262-4930 - Radiology (763)684-7550 - Sleep Center (763)684-3808 - Surgery and Outpatient Center (763)684-7777

Provides a range of primary care options, including family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics. Services include: - Adolescent and teen care including gynecological services like birth control, pelvic exams, pap tests and treatment for painful menstruation - Annual physicals to monitor blood pressure, cholesterol and other health concerns - Birth control and family planning services - Circumcision - Daycare, school, sports, and camp physicals and form completion - Diagnosis and care for acute (short-term) illnesses, injuries, and infections - Diagnosis and care for chronic conditions, such as diabetes or asthma - Health education - Immunizations and vaccinations, including flu shots - Long-term primary care for adults and seniors, especially those with 1 or more health conditions: - Arthritis - Diabetes - Heart disease - High blood pressure (hypertension) - High cholesterol - Infections - Skin conditions, such as minor burns or rashes - Medication management - Mental health screening and counseling - Minor in-office surgery including mole removal, sutures and joint injections - Referrals for specialty care and help to navigate the healthcare system - Screening tests - Spot vision screening to check for lazy eye early and prevent loss of sight - Well-child annual checkups and preventive care