Make an Appointment for Appreciation— The end of March marks the end of winter weather here in Minnesota and the beginning of spring time sights and sounds. At PrairieCare, the end of March also marks a time for us all to show our appreciation...
More InfoPrairieCare is proud to support teens taking on stigma!
Wayzata High School students have taken it upon themselves to take action against stigma. Two years ago PrairieCare was approached by a teenager wanting to change the culture at his school. He had lost friends to suicide, and decided that it...
More InfoImproving patient care and staff development through mentorship. By: Jane Reilly, LICSW, Chief Psychotherapy Officer
In support of National Mentorship Month I would like to provide an update on PrairieCare’s Psychodynamic Mentorship program – a 9 month psychoanalytically informed psychotherapist development program. This program was developed to support our...
More InfoPrairieCare to present at Cleveland Clinic’s 6th Annual Patient Experience Summit
We are excited to announce that PrairieCare’s Chief Executive Officer/Chief Medical Officer Dr. Joel Oberstar, and Performance Improvement Director, Molly Menton have been invited to speak at the Cleveland Clinic’s 6th Annual Patient Experience...
More InfoYouth Leadership Development at PrairieCare By: Jen Holper, LSW, Community Relations
On January 4th something happened at PrairieCare that had not happened before. We hosted a group of over 20 youth leaders from Maple Grove Senior High School. In collaboration with Partnership for Change, the leadership retreat for the group was...
More InfoGetting Creative with Groups By Laura Swan, LGSW
Psychoeducation group…what is that? This is a question that I am often met with from patients in our Partial Hospitalization Program. Psychoeducation group, short for psychological education, is a group where patients discuss mental health...
More InfoDSM-5? Have a Heart! By: Stephen Setterberg, MD
I remember feeling rather smug as a brand new child psychiatry fellow in 1987 when DSM-IIIR was released because I knew that this Chinese menu approach to diagnosis could not possibly do justice to the nuanced complexity of any individual...
More InfoHappy Hospital Week! By: Dr. Joel Oberstar, CEO/CMO
“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson I doubt Emerson was speaking of “doing” healthcare, but the quote is equally applicable to this setting. National Hospital Week is our nation’s largest...
More InfoTeam Building by Andrea Vasquez, LICSW Director of Social Work and Family Therapy
Team building may sound like a lot of fun and an easy event to plan AND to have it go well. Actually, this really isn’t the case. Team building requires a lot of creativity, a lot of planning, AND a lot of team work. (ironic huh?) Since the...
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