Month: April 2012

One of Madison’s best-known business names is back home. Lubar & Co. of Milwaukee announced Tuesday that it has acquired the Erdman Company, a health care facility planning and development firm based in Madison. (CAPITAL TIMES, 4/4)

Executives representing the Fox Cities major health systems say the most effective way to address mental health issues in children and adolescents is to join forces. This was among the factors that drove Appleton-based ThedaCare, Affinity Health System in Menasha and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin to form Catalpa Health, a new independent organization. (APPLETON POST CRESCENT, 4/3)

Dane County's black infant mortality rate remained high last year, further puzzling health officials trying to figure out why the rate dropped from 2002 to 2007 but shot up again beginning in 2008. "Now that we've had several bad years, we can definitely say the positive trend has reversed itself," said Daniel Stattelman-Scanlan, perinatal supervisor at Public Health Madison and Dane County. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 4/2)

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) sparred with White House health policy adviser Zeke Emanuel over the costs of the president's signature health care reform during a segment on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Monday, saying it was "an utter fiction that this was going to reduce the deficit." (THE HILL, 4/2)