Jan 10, 2011 | Top Stories |
Wood County Comprehensive Community Services, or CCS, is opening community centers for people with a history of mental illness in both Marshfield and Wisconsin Rapids this year. (MARSHFIELD NEWS-HERALD, 1/10)
Jan 10, 2011 | Hospitals, Top Stories |
The Edgerton Zoning Board of Appeals last week approved a slew of variance requests by Mercy Health System for an expansion plan that would double the size of the Mercy Edgerton Medical Center. (JANESVILLE GAZETTE 1/6)
Jan 10, 2011 | Hospitals, Top Stories |
Mercy Health System is trying again to build a hospital and medical clinic in Crystal Lake, Ill. Mercy recently filed plans with Illinois officials for a $200 million, 128-bed hospital and clinic. (JANESVILLE GAZETTE, 1/6)
Jan 10, 2011 | Top Stories |
Dr. Ken Loving, the newly appointed CEO of Access Community Health Centers, sits down with the Capital Times' Shawn Doherty to talk about the role of community health centers in health reform, the fate of BadgerCare, and why he thinks its important to keep up his medical practice. (CAPITAL TIMES, 1/9)
Jan 10, 2011 | Top Stories |
Wausau health care providers are optimistic that a report published last week will further their efforts to convince skeptical parents that autism is not linked to vaccines. (WAUSAU DAILY HERALD, 1/9)
Jan 10, 2011 | Top Stories |
The Wisconsin Medical Society proposes that Wisconsin look west as it prepares to fill a Medicaid budget hole estimated at $1.2 billion. As Dave Wahlberg details in a Sunday story in the Wisconsin State Journal, the doctors association believes that Oregon's method of ranking services could serve as model to the Badger state. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 1/9)
Jan 10, 2011 | National News |
The new health law encourages doctors, hospitals and insurers to team up in treating patients, but these groups already are at odds as they urge the government to set rules protecting their financial interests. (KAISER HEALTH NEWS, 1/9)
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The Obama administration, following a lengthy internal debate, has unexpectedly come down on the side of pharmaceutical companies that are accused of overcharging public hospitals and clinics that care for large numbers of poor people. (NEW YORK TIMES, 1/9)
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s alliance with the state’s health-care union and hospital lobby is drawing fire from some patient advocates, who question the governor’s decision to give the powerful industry figures a front-and-center role in the process of overhauling Medicaid. (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 1/8)
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