Health Care

SaintA plans to open eight new mental health branch offices at Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee sites, in a new partnership among the human services agency, the youth organization and the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Advocate Aurora Health, the largest health system in the state, has announced it is requiring its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Occupational health care provider Nova Medical Centers opened a new medical facility near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport this week, its first of several planned Wisconsin locations.

Froedtert Health informed employees Tuesday they are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes has signed an exclusive agreement with GE Healthcare Systems to market and distribute Iodine-123 (I-123), a radioisotope used routinely in nuclear medicine.

Two months after announcing it will require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19, Marquette University said more than 85% of students enrolled for the fall have submitted proof of vaccination.

All city of Milwaukee employees would be required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine or be tested weekly for the virus, under a resolution proposed by Alderman Robert Bauman.

Children’s Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin are the latest Milwaukee-area health care organizations to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for all employees.

All ProHealth Care employees will be required to get vaccinated against COVID-19 beginning Oct. 15, a ProHealth Care spokesperson told BizTimes Thursday.

The mandatory shot scenario has resurfaced among private companies due to the spread of the Delta variant; stubborn vaccine hesitancy in parts of the country and Wisconsin; and fear of exposing all workers, their families, customers and vendors to COVID-19.