Health Care

Shorehaven Behavioral Health Inc., a mental health outpatient clinic whose main location is in Brown Deer, informed the state Department of Workforce Development (DWD) that it plans to lay off dozens of employees.

WellPoint Inc., the Indianapolis-based parent licensee of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire 1-800 Contacts Inc., the largest direct-to-consumer retailer of contact lenses in the United States.

Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative, a new member-governed and operated nonprofit health insurance company serving southeastern Wisconsin, today announced the appointment of its executive team.

WellPoint Inc., the Indianapolis-based parent licensee of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire 1-800 Contacts Inc., the largest direct-to-consumer retailer of contact lenses in the United States.

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin has become the only pediatric hospital in Wisconsin to perform a robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery.

Menomonee Falls-based Assisted Living Concepts Inc., which operates assisted-living and senior residences in 20 states throughout the country, today announced that Lt. General USAF (Ret.) Charles H. "Chip" Roadman II, M.D., has been named as its interim president and chief executive officer.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Wisconsin president Larry Schreiber has been named 2012 Chair for the Wisconsin Chapter of CEOs Against Cancer, the American Cancer Society announced today.

A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine estimates that while rates of obesity may be leveling off, 42 percent of the nation will be obese by the year 2030.

For nearly 10 years, Menomonee Falls-based Vestica Healthcare has been managing the complex needs of the health insurance industry...

After a health scare a few years ago Craig Peterson, president and chief executive officer of Milwaukee-based Zigman Joseph Stephenson Inc., knew he needed to improve his health. But he also knew that working out at a gym would be too monotonous.