Forging a path through the confusion of COVID information and misinformation by Thomas H. Bracken MD Most of us have been facing a deluge of information about the COVID virus and its effects on our lives; it comes from all directions - friends, family, Facebook, the Internet, TV news, Federal…
“People have to look at the bigger picture,” said Dr. Tom Bracken, Infection Prevention Medical Director for MLHS. “If you live in New York City, your life looks very different than if you’re in the middle of Nebraska. But anything could change for any of us, at any time. Stearns county is…
Notice of Data Security Incident What Happened? On November 14, 2019, we learned that an outside entity sent phishing emails to certain of our employees soliciting their login information to our email system. We immediately commenced an investigation and…
“If anyone comes to our facility, I don’t care how important they are, they’re not getting in without a mask!” Dr. Tom Bracken, Infection Prevention Medical Director for Mille Lacs Health System, said at a recent Incident Command Meeting of the coronavirus emergency response team at MLHS. Bracken…
“When you hear people say this is just like a bad flu, that is not true,” said Dr. Tom Bracken, Infection Prevention Medical Director for Mille Lacs Health System, about the current COVID-19 pandemic. “People are using number of deaths as a comparison, yet we already have exceeded the number of…
