Lauren Anderson

Hunger Task Force has committed up to $1 million to a new program aimed at providing relief to dairy farmers while supplying area food pantries with milk.

Milwaukee-based Vivent Health, formerly the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, has acquired an Austin-based AIDS service organization. 

While at least one health system in southeastern Wisconsin saw a spike in admissions of COVID-19 patients on Tuesday, hospitals across the region have not yet exceeded their ICU bed or ventilator capacity. 

An elderly male patient in Milwaukee has responded well to a convalescent plasma transfusion after being the first recipient in the Advocate Aurora Health system of an experimental COVID-19 treatment. 

As Wisconsin sees a steady slowing of new COVID-19 cases, Medical College of Wisconsin president and chief executive officer Dr. John Raymond said the state still has several benchmarks to meet before it can begin reopening business. 

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has requested $17 million in new funds for local public health agencies in the state as they work to bolster tracking of residents who may have been exposed to COVID-19 during Tuesday's election. 

Froedtert South plans to expand and renovate the cancer treatment center on its Pleasant Prairie hospital campus. 

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $5.8 million to community health centers in southeastern Wisconsin to support their COVID-19 response. 

Milwaukee-area companies and organizations have given back in various ways to help in the fight against COVID-19:

The Wauwatosa-based Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment has awarded nearly $4.8 million in grants to 17 projects that are working to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus across Wisconsin.

Johannah Karstedt St. John, chief executive officer of Milwaukee professional women's organization Professional Dimensions, will resign from her position on May 1.

The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers has begun developing an alternative care facility on the Wisconsin State Fair Park grounds in West Allis to care for COVID-19 patients, Gov. Tony Evers announced Thursday.