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October 20, 2020

How to Celebrate and Enjoy Halloween Safely in 2020???????

???????Halloween is quickly approaching and in a more normal year than this one, October would be a time for celebration, great costumes, trick-or-treating and hopefully, no early snowstorms or infamous blizzards. Everything is weird right now, but that doesn’t mean that time stops. Halloween can still happen. It can still be fun be fun, but to be safe it should happen differently this year.  

October 14, 2020

Nerve Transfer Surgery and Expert Care Brings New Hope for AFM PatientsGillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare is ready to help as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

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October 8, 2020

A Conversation and Meeting with Walter Truong, MD Walter Truong, MD has worked

as a Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon at Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare for nearly ten…

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October 6, 2020

Dreaming in the Time of COVID-19: A Cerebral Palsy Book is Launched Despite a Worldwide Pandemic On

World Cerebral Palsy Day, Gillette Children’s Healthcare Press is pleased to highlight a book that combines medically rigorous medical information and the personal story of a mother searching for the best care for her son who is diagnosed with CP. Spastic Diplegia—Bilateral Cerebral Palsy is written by Lily Collison, an

Ireland-based author and the mother of a Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare patient.

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October 5, 2020

Words Can Break Your Heart October is National Bullying Prevention Month. While much has been done to help curb bullying behavior, the statistics show more needs to be done. One study shows 60

percent of children who have disabilities report being bullied regularly.

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October 20, 2020

How to Celebrate and Enjoy Halloween Safely in 2020??????????????Halloween is quickly approaching and in a more normal year than this one, October would be a time for celebration, great costumes, trick-or-treating and hopefully, no early snowstorms or infamous blizzards. 

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October 14, 2020

Nerve Transfer Surgery and Expert Care Brings New Hope for AFM PatientsGillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare is ready to help as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns that 2020 could be another peak year for cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM)—an uncommon but serious neurological condition that mostly affects children. The polio-like condition tends to peak in the fall months every other year. The last surge of AFM was in 2018 where more than 200 cases were diagnosed across the U.S., according to the CDC.

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October 8, 2020

A Conversation and Meeting with Walter Truong, MDWalter Truong, MD has worked as a Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon at Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare for nearly ten years. Dr. Truong specializes in treating a variety of pediatric orthopedic conditions. Learn more about him, here.

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October 6, 2020

Dreaming in the Time of COVID-19: A Cerebral Palsy Book is Launched Despite a Worldwide PandemicOn World Cerebral Palsy Day, Gillette Children’s Healthcare Press is pleased to highlight a book that combines medically rigorous medical information and the personal story of a mother searching for the best care for her son who is diagnosed with CP. Spastic Diplegia—Bilateral Cerebral Palsy is written by Lily Collison, an Ireland-based author and the mother of a Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare patient.

October is National Bullying Prevention Month

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October 5, 2020

Words Can Break Your HeartOctober is National Bullying Prevention Month. While much has been done to help curb bullying behavior, the statistics show more needs to be done. One study shows 60 percent of children who have disabilities report being bullied regularly.

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October 2, 2020

Filling a Gap in Care the Gillette Dental Clinic ReopensThe dental clinic at Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare is now open and seeing patients after being closed for three months as a precaution to help curb the spread of COVID-19. Gillette's dental clinic is one of only three facilities in the metro area that is specially equipped to serve patients with disabilities.

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October 1, 2020

Gillette Celebrates Employee Recognition WeekEach year, Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare celebrates our staff during Employee Recognition Week. The festivities were a little different this year, but the sentiment of gratitude was the same. Hear from Gillette's leadership team on why they’re thankful for the work of our staff, here.

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September 24, 2020

We Really Want to See You: Rescheduling Due to COVID-19At Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare we know over the past few weeks some of our families might have experienced some extra challenges scheduling appointments with our providers. We hear you. We want to share what brought on these circumstances and to assure you we’re working to improve the situation.

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September 18, 2020

Grady’s Grit: Cerebral Palsy and Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) Surgery"Grady’s so much more than his condition. The way we see it is that God gave us this incredibly cool kid who’s had to deal with a few things. We've had challenges, but life is good even when stuff is hard. Either way, because of Gillette and the care they provide, Grady's future will be whatever he decides it to be. That’s no small thing.”

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September 17, 2020

Meet Laurie Black, Gillette’s New Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in Greater MinnesotaTake a moment to learn about Laurie Black, APRN, PNP, who joined Gillette this month to serve patients in greater Minnesota as part of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation team.

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CAMPUSHospital and

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University Avenue EastSt. Paul, MN

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BURNSVILLE CLINIC

Fairview Ridges Hospital Campus305 East Nicollet

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DULUTH CLINIC

Lakewalk Center1420

London Road, Suite

210Duluth, MN

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GILLETTE MANKATO

CLINICWickersham

Health Campus1421 Premier

Drive Mankato, MN

56001

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MAPLE GROVE CLINIC

9550 Upland

Lane North, Suite 220

Maple Grove, MN

55369

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ST. CLOUD CLINIC

CentraCare Health Plaza

1900 CentraCare

CircleSt. Cloud, MN 56303

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