Month: September 2012

The building boom in health care apparently isn't over yet. Froedtert Health announced on Friday that it plans to begin construction this year on a $117 million expansion and renovation project at Froedtert Hospital. The project, which still must win the necessary approvals, includes a 480,000-square-foot building with three levels of underground parking, on Doyne Ave. west of the hospital's cancer center. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 9/17)

A Dane County judge's ruling striking down many limits on collective bargaining for public workers will likely be appealed quickly and could go straight to a showdown on a divided, but often conservative-leaning state Supreme Court. What is less clear is whether the state's highest court will repeat last year's decision when the justices restored the collective bargaining law after it had been struck down following a very different challenge. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 9/17)

GE Healthcare pledged $32.9 million over 10 years Thursday for an imaging research facility at UW School of Medicine and Public Health. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 9/14)

After waiting three months, Jesse Galarza was finally scheduled for oral surgery at 8:30 a.m. Monday. But instead of getting his gums fixed, he spent the morning waiting at home for a cab ride that never arrived. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 9/14)

Factors that increase the risk of sleep-related infant mortality were present in all but one of the 48 incidents in which a Milwaukee baby died of SIDS or accidental suffocation from the start of 2009 to the end of 2011, according to preliminary numbers released Wednesday by the city Health Department. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 9/13)

The Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin unveiled a brand new mobile pediatric health clinic at their Labor Day Pow-Wow. “We’re pretty excited about that,” President Greendeer told Indian Country Today Media Network days prior to the reveal. “It’s the first in Indian country.” (INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY, 9/13)