Health Care

Small business owners, sole proprietors and nonprofit executives are invited to learn more about their options for health care insurance by attending the Milwaukee Press Club's next Newsmaker Luncheon, which will feature Bob DeVita, chief executive officer of the Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative.

“We’ve heard firsthand stories about how in many instances, business owners have had to decide to let employees go...

Milwaukee-based Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin has announced the Greendale Medical Clinic will be joining its clinical practice group on December 1, 2013.

Lynn K. Sheets, MD, medical director of the Child Protection Center at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, and associate professor of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, was selected by committees from the National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds and the American Academy of Pediatrics as the 2013 recipient of the Ray E. Helfer, MD Award.

Oconomowoc-based Rogers Memorial Hospital has announced the opening of a 13-bed inpatient eating disorders unit dedicated to children and adolescents.

Madison-based Dean Health Plan and Waukesha-based ProHealth Care have announced a new agreement that will expand Dean’s insurance network to include all ProHealth physicians, facilities and services.

Brookfield-based Diversified Insurance Solutions today announced it will launch the Diversified Insurance Marketplace, a private health insurance exchange, on Jan. 1, 2014.

I spent 22 years of my career in Marshfield, Wis., a great community built by hard working people. During my time as the chief administrator of Marshfield Clinic, I not only saw first-hand the impact that local, quality healthcare services can mean to a community, but I learned a thing or two about cooperatives (co-op).

Stop here for this week's health care news links from around the state.

Waukesha-based ProHealth care said it has become the first health care system to use Verona-based Epic System Corp.’s “Cogito” data warehouse.