Month: May 2013
JFC approves HIRSP closure
May 20, 2013 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
The state's budget committee signed off last week on the Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan Authority's proposal to close the state's high risk pool and its federal plan at the end of the year. (WHN, 5/20)
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Clinic building to be built in Baraboo
May 18, 2013 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
Construction will soon begin on a $6.5 million medical office building next to St. Clare Hospital in Baraboo. Dean Health System and SSM Healthcare, which owns St. Clare and St. Mary's Hospitals in Madison and Janesville, will provide primary and specialty care, including ophthalmology, podiatry, orthopedics, general surgery and OB-GYN. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 5/17)
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Growing Power partnering with state medical schools to study local food
May 17, 2013 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
For the past two decades, Will Allen has dedicated himself to providing affordable, healthy food with the belief that eating good food is going to lead to a better and healthier life. Now, he's turning to the state's medical community for some proof. (WHN, 5/17)
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Budget committee approves navigator regulations
May 16, 2013 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
Navigators operating within Wisconsin's federally-facilitated health insurance exchange would have to meet certain licensing, training and financial responsibility requirements, under an amendment approvedWednesday by the state's budget committee. The new regulations would be among the strongest in the country for navigators, according to the Independent Insurance Agents of Wisconsin. (WHN, 5/16)
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DHS: Transportation broker not about saving money
May 15, 2013 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
The state's new nonemergency Medicaid transportation manager contract with Medical Transportation Management is about more than saving money, the Department of Health Services' Marlia Mattke told a long-term care advisory council Tuesday. (WHN, 5/15)
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Clinic quality details made public
May 14, 2013 | Top Stories |
More than 83 percent of patients at Dean Health System’s Fish Hatchery Clinic are appropriately screened for colon cancer, compared with 71 percent of patients at Dean’s clinic in Stoughton. Nearly 79 percent of middle-aged women at Meriter Health System’s Middleton Clinic are screened every two years for breast cancer, compared with 59 percent at Meriter’s clinic in Fitchburg. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 5/14)
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HHS adds $1.7 million for enrollment efforts in Wisconsin
May 13, 2013 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
The Department of Health and Human Services is providing $1.7 million in Wisconsin for community health centers to help enroll people in the state’s federally facilitated health insurance exchange. It’s part of $150 million in new funds announced by HHS last week and is in addition to previously announced funding for navigators. (WHN, 5/13)
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First Nurses Graduate from SOAR-RN Program at Ministry
May 13, 2013 | Press Releases |
Contact Information: Geoffrey Huys FACHE System Director of Public Relations geoffrey.huys@ministryhealth.org 715.843.9090 (office); 715.302.5246 (mobile) Sixteen nurses recently took part in graduation ceremonies as the...
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