Health Care

U.S. HealthWorks, one of the largest operators of occupational health care centers in the United States, today announced it has acquired four health care centers and two worksites from Sensia Healthcare in Wisconsin.

Stillwaters Cancer Support Services and Cancer Support Community Greater Milwaukee, the area’s two leading providers of support services for people living with cancer, announced today that they plan to merge their efforts.

The public is invited to help BizTimes Media salute the first responders to the mass shootings in Oak Creek and Brookfield by attending the 2012 Health Care Heroes Awards Breakfast.

The health care exchanges being created to comply with the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, will do nothing to bring down the costs of health care, according to John Torinus.

Brookfield-based Connecture Inc. today announced the immediate availability of a new Health Plan Management module of StateAdvantage, the company's commercial off-the-shelf product suite that enables states to efficiently create and operate consumer-friendly health insurance exchanges.

The latest flap over ObamaCare, whether state or local government will run the exchanges, has once again created a major distraction from real reform of the health care delivery system.

Alliant Physical Therapy Group announced today its continued expansion into the central city of Milwaukee with the addition of two new clinics to serve a historically underserved market.

A recent study spearheaded by Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. has determined that while women may have a better grasp of long-term care options than men, they are less inclined to actively prepare for a long-term care event.

The Ability Center, a nonprofit organization, is raising funds in hopes of building a $53 million, 230,000-square-foot fitness, athletic and recreational facility in Milwaukee County for people with physical and cognitive disabilities.

As nursing homes and assisted living facilities throughout southeastern Wisconsin plan for the future of their services under the Obama administration's second term, many are focusing on the potential impacts of the fiscal cliff and the implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.