Month: August 2011

A Hartland pharmaceutical company, already under heavy scrutiny by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has initiated a recall of several of its products at the request of the government agency. (MILWAUKEE BUSINESS JOURNAL, 8/26)

More than two dozen Wisconsin health insurance plans have been granted waivers from annual coverage limits required under the health care reform law enacted last year. Most of the waivers were approved for "mini-med" plans, or plans that offer limited benefits to workers, that would have difficulty complying with the coverage requirements spelled out in the Affordable Care Act. (APPLETON POST CRESCENT, 8/26)

A $25.2 million redevelopment of a prominent and long-blighted site is stalled before the city’s Urban Design Commission, largely over a parking lot demanded by the main tenants of the project for safety reasons…Ghidorzi is proposing to demolish the former Bancroft Dairy, unused for a decade, and eight residential properties to build a four-story, 76,800-square-foot building that will be home to a new Wingra Clinic and medical offices, a parking garage and a parking lot on a roughly one-acre, triangular-shaped parcel bounded by Fish Hatchery Road, South Park Street and Midland Street. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 8/25)

What will happen with Americans' health insurance in 2014 remains guesswork, but this much is clear: A significant number of employers will at least think about dropping coverage. That point was driven home again Wednesday with the release of another survey on how companies plan to address the sweeping changes generated by the Affordable Care Act of 2010. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 8/25)

An Alabama woman who claimed she was severely sickened by an infection caused by Triad Group alcohol pads has died only days before she was scheduled to give a deposition in her lawsuit against the Hartland-based company. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 8/24)

A new $15 million nursing facility could help boost enrollment 25 percent over the next five years at Viterbo University, which already trains more nursing graduates than any other private college in Wisconsin. (LA CROSSE TRIBUNE, 8/24)

GE Healthcare Ltd. is cutting 81 jobs at its Milwaukee and Waukesha facilities, or 1.2% of the company's positions in southeastern Wisconsin, the medical technologies division of the General Electric Co. said Tuesday. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 8/24)

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, which has been excluded from the Business Health Care Group’s insurance plan since its inception eight years ago, will become a member next year. Humana will add Wheaton to the Humana Preferred Network Jan. 1. As a result, Columbia St. Mary’s facilities will be removed from the network. The changes were finalized Aug. 19 and will continue through Dec. 31, 2014. (MILWAUKEE BUSINESS JOURNAL, 8/23)

Oconto Hospital & Medical Center will begin an expansion in September that will more than quadruple the size of the facility. Groundbreaking for the $15 million project, a joint venture of Green Bay-based Bellin Health and Oconto Hospital Citizens' Foundation, is scheduled for Sept. 7. Completion is expected next summer. (GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE, 8/23)

Three months after the city hired a new company to transport people with disabilities, some of those individuals said Monday they continue to see service lapses from Green Bay's new transit provider. Late pickups, lost drivers and rude customer service were among the complaints voiced during a public meeting with Green Bay Metro administrators and other city officials about service from MV Transportation of Fairfield, Calif. (GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE, 8/23)