Health Care
Medical homes are proliferating
Washington County and Wisconsin are right in the middle of a seismic shift in the delivery of health care in America – from primary care as a loss leader for the big hospital corporations to medical homes for employees right at the work site.
United Way campaign aims to reduce infant mortality
A new advertising and social media campaign is setting out to spark greater public support around the critical need to reduce Milwaukee’s infant mortality rate.
Children’s Hospital, Ronald McDonald House celebrate pedestrian sky bridge opening
Representatives from the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, the Ronald McDonald House and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, along with patients and their families, gathered on Tuesday to celebrate the opening of the new Watertown Plank Road pedestrian sky bridge in Wauwatosa.
Assurant Health to work with Health Care Cost Institute
Milwaukee-based Assurant Health will join three other major health insurance companies to work with the Health Care Cost Institute as it develops free online tools aimed at offering consumers comprehensive information about the price and quality of health care services.
Sensia Wellness to offer seminar on health care in the workplace
As part of the BizTimes Fittest Execs program, event sponsor Sensia Wellness will host a seminar on health care in the workplace called “A Wake Up Call: Are You Really in Control of Your Corporate Healthcare Costs?”
Marquette research scientist awarded grant to further autism research
Amy Vaughan Van Hecke, Ph.D., a research scientist from Marquette University, has received a three-year Mentored Career Development Award from the Clinical & Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin to study how treatments for autism spectrum disorder affect the brain.
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MCW scientists to investigate new therapy for obstructive lung disease
The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a grant and an award to identify new therapeutic targets for chronic obstructive lung diseases and to study better treatments for breast cancer, respectively.
Milwaukee Biz Blog: Missing in governor race: health cost budget buster
One of the major political footballs in this year's campaign for Wisconsin governor is how many people should be on the state's BadgerCare/Medicaid program. It is a legitimate issue, raised by the Obamacare offer of 100 percent coverage for three years for adding impoverished enrollees.
Rogers Memorial Hospital hires vice president of operations
James E. Ledbetter, Ph.D., has joined the administrative leadership team at Rogers Memorial Hospital as the new vice president of operations for regional partial hospitalization programs.
BloodCenter of Wisconsin launches test for monitoring sickle cell disease patients
BloodCenter of Wisconsin's Diagnostic Laboratories has announced the availability of an innovative test that will allow physicians to directly gauge the success of allogeneic bone marrow transplantations of sickle cell disease patients. The Erythroid Chimerism test, which monitors erythroid lineage chimerism, will also provide physicians with actionable information to guide patient care.
