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Elizabeth Hill-Karbowski has spent her nursing career caring for women and their families. And as a certified nurse midwife since 1995, she has been dedicated to improving the health and well-being of women and their families. She serves at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare-St. Joseph in Milwaukee, a city that has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the nation.

As individual health care professionals, Lori Baeckman, Lisa Birch and Jan Mechanic each have highly specialized skills in the fields of rehabilitation therapy. Baeckman is a physical therapist; Birch is an occupational therapist; and Mechanic is a speech therapist. While each has their own area of expertise when it comes to patient care, together they represent the epitome of what it means to work as a team.

Dan Baker is known around Milwaukee as an advocate for individuals and families struggling with mental illness. As director of the Crisis Resource Center, Baker has dedicated his career to making sure clients receive the services they need immediately and then take the necessary steps toward recovery, says Nan Bialek, director of communications at the Milwaukee Center For Independence.

Just when it seems there's no end in sight to rising health care costs, Dr. Channing Tassone and the Orthopedic Center staff at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin have figured out how to deliver health care services more efficiently. As a result, the center's patients are happier.

Be the change you want to be. That's the philosophy of Lisa K. Alberte, director of nursing and rehabilitation at Acres of Hope & Aspirations, a five-acre nature farm in Muskego. It's there that Alberte interacts with her clients and their families, all of whom have been affected by brain injuries and disabilities.

Ask John Cary why he has remained executive director of the MACC Fund since 1982, and you'll get an answer that's quick and to the point: Who wouldn't stay?

For Tricia Burkett, Wisconsin's safe haven law hits home. Burkett is the adoptive mother of a baby girl, now 2 years old, who was safely relinquished by her birth mother through the Safe Place for Newborns program, now based in Milwaukee.

Ilse Tikkanen's advice for how caregivers should treat patients can be boiled down to this simple phrase: Walk in their shoes.

Milwaukee has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the nation. So, when officials at Children's Community Health Plan learned that a certain drug therapy known as 17P was making a difference in lowering premature births, they decided to investigate the therapy further.

Columbia St. Mary's new hospital building on Milwaukee's east side is often described as a "hospital of the future." But long before the new hospital opened its doors in October, its predecessor hospitals were on the forefront of health care in Milwaukee.