Health Care

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.

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.

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.

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?”

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.

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.

BizTimes Media has extended the nomination deadline for the inaugural BizTimes Media Nonprofit Excellence Awards to Friday, Sept. 12.

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.

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.