Health Care

After a review of strategic alternatives for its health business, Assurant Inc. announced today that it will shut down its Milwaukee-based Assurant Health division in downtown Milwaukee over the next 18 months. The first phase of job reductions will occur this summer and affect an estimated 300 out of approximately 1,700 positions at Assurant Health.

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Summer. Time for students throughout the United States to kick back, relax and rest on their laurels before a new school year begins.

Milwaukee startup OnKol plans to move from Startup Milwaukee’s 96square co-working space to another collaborative community, Ward4 Milwaukee.

Milwaukee-based development firm Irgens plans to build a 40,000-square-foot expansion onto the 60,000-square-foot Tosa Health Center building, located at the southwest corner of Mayfair Road and Watertown Plank Road in Wauwatosa, that it leases to Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin.

For the second consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin No. 5 in cardiology and heart surgery.

Summer. Time for students throughout the United States to kick back, relax and rest on their laurels before a new school year begins.

The 60,000 people who live in Comitancillo– an agricultural community outside of Guatemala City – have no access to basic health care and no means of transportation to get treatment. Dr. Shane Fisher, owner of The Kids Dentist LLC in Mequon, however, is doing his part to change that.

The Wisconsin Humane Society on Monday introduced a first-of-its-kind high-volume spay/neuter clinic to the region.

Louisville-based Humana Inc., which provides health insurance for thousands of Wisconsin residents, may be for sale, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.