Health Care

The Medical Society of Milwaukee County announced the election of Julie Schuller, M.D., as it new president.

Business executive Richard Pieper, a longtime Milwaukee advocate of the concept of Servant Leadership, is calling for parents and grandparents to take action to prevent the use of heroin among youths in Wisconsin.

Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin announced a new, online bullying education and prevention resource for parents, ParentsActNow.com.

Greenfield-based Advanced Pain Management has hired Dennis Skrajewski as president and chief operating officer.

Waukesha-based ProHealth Care has announced it will work with Indiana University Health to create a cardiothoracic surgery program.

Milwaukee-based Managed Health Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of St. Louis-based Centene Corporation, has been notified by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services that it is approved to offer health insurance coverage through the BadgerCare Plus program in southeastern Wisconsin.

More than 56,000 people in Wisconsin have signed up through the Obamacare insurance marketplace. This means signups in Wisconsin are, for the first time, higher than the original enrollment target from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Aurora Health Care has named Gerard Colman chief operating officer and Mike Lappin chief administrative officer.

Oconomowoc-based Rogers Memorial Hospital is adding to its residential treatment with “FOCUS,” a program for young adults struggling with their transition to adulthood due to facing depression and other mood disorders.

Milwaukee-based Trilogy Health Insurance has signed a contract with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to administer the BadgerCare Plus and Medicaid SSI programs to eligible residents of Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine and Waukesha Counties.