Mille Lacs Health System wants to thank individuals and groups who are supporting the Next Chapter: Building Our Healthy Future building expansion project through naming opportunities of new rooms or other facility areas. How does it work? Various rooms, such as triage, fireside lounge, or the…
In response to Governor Walz’s Emergency Executive Order July 24 - requiring that all Minnesotans must wear masks indoors and in indoor public settings - Mille Lacs Health System is reminding patients that the mandate includes hospitals and clinics. Patients entering the health system at any of its…
New Physician Assistant Josh Kruize joins the Mille Lacs Health System medical provider roster in August. Kruize’s Grandfather was born in the Hillman area, married, and moved his family to a hobby farm outside of Aitkin. As a child, Josh spent a lot of time hunting in the area in the fall, and…
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…
