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Clinic building to be built in Baraboo
Construction will soon begin on a $6.5 million medical office building next to St. Clare Hospital in Baraboo. Dean Health System and SSM Healthcare, which owns St. Clare and St. Mary’s Hospitals in Madison and Janesville, will provide primary and specialty care, including ophthalmology, podiatry, orthopedics, general surgery and OB-GYN. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 5/17)
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Construction will soon begin on a $6.5 million medical office building next to St. Clare Hospital in Baraboo. Dean Health System and SSM Healthcare, which owns St. Clare and St. Mary’s Hospitals in Madison and Janesville, will provide primary and specialty care, including ophthalmology, podiatry, orthopedics, general surgery and OB-GYN. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 5/17)
For the past two decades, Will Allen has dedicated himself to providing affordable, healthy food with the belief that eating good food is going to lead to a better and healthier life. Now, he’s turning to the state’s medical community for some proof. (WHN, 5/17)
Navigators operating within Wisconsin’s federally-facilitated health insurance exchange would have to meet certain licensing, training and financial responsibility requirements, under an amendment approvedWednesday by the state’s budget committee. The new regulations would be among the strongest in the country for navigators, according to the Independent Insurance Agents of Wisconsin. (WHN, 5/16)
The state’s new nonemergency Medicaid transportation manager contract with Medical Transportation Management is about more than saving money, the Department of Health Services’ Marlia Mattke told a long-term care advisory council Tuesday. (WHN, 5/15)
More than 83 percent of patients at Dean Health System’s Fish Hatchery Clinic are appropriately screened for colon cancer, compared with 71 percent of patients at Dean’s clinic in Stoughton. Nearly 79 percent of middle-aged women at Meriter Health System’s Middleton Clinic are screened every two years for breast cancer, compared with 59 percent at Meriter’s clinic in Fitchburg. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 5/14)
The Department of Health and Human Services is providing $1.7 million in Wisconsin for community health centers to help enroll people in the state’s federally facilitated health insurance exchange. It’s part of $150 million in new funds announced by HHS last week and is in addition to previously announced funding for navigators. (WHN, 5/13)
No Wisconsin city could prohibit the sale of large, sugary drinks as was done in New York City under a provision that has been added to the state budget. (AP, 5/10)
Not wanting to let go of its federal plan during the program’s final months, the Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan Authority is asking the federal government to help it pay for commercial reinsurance, under a proposal approved by HIRSP’s board during an emergency meeting Wednesday. (WHN, 5/9)
Legislation establishing a reasonable physician standard as the legal standard doctors must meet when informing patients about the risks and benefits of treatments or procedures passed the Assembly Wednesday by a vote of 65-31. It now heads to the Senate. (WHN, 5/9)
More than 300 nurses and health care professionals gathered at the Capitol Tuesday to push for legislation that they say would improve the quality of care for patients in nursing homes, hospitals and other health care facilities. (WHN, 5/8)
The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality is among 21 state medical societies, specialty societies and regional health collaboratives to receive a grant to promote the ABIM Foundation’s Choosing Wisely Campaign. (WHN, 5/8)
Proposed state Medicaid cuts that would cause 29,000 children to lose coverage, dropped during negotiations with federal officials last year, are resurrected in Gov. Scott Walker’s pending 2013-2015 budget, a new report says. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 5/7)
Wisconsin insurers are deploying a variety of strategies when it comes to the state’s federally facilitated health insurance exchange. (WHN, 5/6)
Aurora Health Care recently received a $1.5 million grant from the Department of Defense to study an evidence-based decision making tool for nurses. (WHN, 5/3)
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center officially fired up a new boiler Wednesday that burns wood chips and is projected to save the health system $500,000 a year. (LA CROSSE TRIBUNE, 5/2)
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