Month: February 2012

Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and Aurora Visiting Nurse Association have developed a preferred provider arrangement for pediatric home health services. Aurora VNA currently provides a majority of home care services and equipment needs for children discharged from Children’s Hospital. (BUSINESS JOURNAL, 2/3)

Connecture Inc., a provider of sales automation software for the health insurance industry, will create more than 100 high-paying professional technology jobs in Wisconsin and is currently recruiting for nearly 25 percent of those jobs. (BUSINESS JOURNAL, 2/3)

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point believes it could be a great resource for a medical school that is considering a facility in central Wisconsin. The Milwaukee-based Medical College of Wisconsin announced Tuesday that it is considering north central Wisconsin -- specifically Wausau, Stevens Point and Marshfield -- as one of eight possible regions for a new school that would teach and train primary care physicians. (STEVENS POINT JOURNAL, 2/2)

Supporters of two different potential medical schools in Wausau said they are not worried about each other's plans. But the feasibility of either school setting up in central Wisconsin depends largely on whether the region's hospitals can make room for as many as 200 new medical students. (WAUSAU DAILY HERALD, 2/2)

Republican Tommy Thompson says federal workers should pay more for their health insurance and pension benefits, just like Wisconsin state workers were forced to do last year. Thompson said Wednesday that would be one of the first things he proposes if elected to the U.S. Senate. (AP, 2/2)

The Medical College of Wisconsin is taking a serious look at creating a community-based medical education program that could allow it to train another 100 primary care doctors a year. (WHN, 2/1)

Wisconsin's health programs for the poor have a $141 million shortfall in state money over the next year and a half, new estimates show. So far, GOP Gov. Scott Walker's administration has saving plans that would more than cover that potential deficit in the state's Medicaid health programs. But a new report by the Legislature's nonpartisan budget office questions whether all of the saving will materialize. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 2/1)

Post-employment benefits for employees of the Richmond School District may be no more if a proposed individual teachers’ contract is approved as expected by the School Board in February. The decision could set a precedent for other school districts to follow. (LIVING LAKE COUNTY, 1/31)