At the start of the month, Dr. Imran Andrabi became president and CEO of Froedtert ThedaCare Health, the combined organization of Froedtert Health and ThedaCare that launched at the start of the year.
Gov. Tony Evers’ administration wants to join a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin that argues that the state’s constitution protects access to abortion. The Wisconsin Supreme Court earlier this month agreed to take up Planned Parenthood’s case.
The Legislature’s budget-writing committee this week signed off on a Department of Health Services’ plan for about 124 full-time positions to staff an expansion of the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center, after lifting an objection to the proposal raised in February.
Wisconsin ranks 11th nationwide for women’s healthcare, according to an inaugural scorecard released by The Commonwealth Fund Thursday. The state was first in the Great Lakes region, which includes Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
The Republican Party adopted a platform Monday in Milwaukee that supports the ability of states to act on limiting access to abortion, a departure from previous stances that called for more federal action.
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