Dr. Frank Byrne plans to spend his first full day of retirement playing with his rock band. The Grooving Needles, made up of Byrne and several Epic employees, has a gig in Madison on Jan. 31. The day before is his final at the helm of St. Mary's Hospital, a position he's held for more than a decade. (WHN, 1/23)
Todd Milewski of The Capital Times reports: "When Dane County Regional Airport director Bradley Livingston meets with airlines to discuss destinations and schedules, occasionally a third entity joins the conversation. That would be Epic Systems, Dane County's largest private employer and a significant driver of the airport's business travel." (THE CAPITAL TIMES, 1/21)
Doctors at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Tomah hand out so many narcotic painkillers that some veterans have taken to calling the place "Candy Land." (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 1/12)
Lawmakers should consider statutory changes to align the emergency detention process in Milwaukee with other counties and require community-based crisis services prior to emergency detention, according to a report released Tuesday by the Department of Health Services. (WHN, 12/17)
FOR RELEASE December 9, 2014 For more information, contact: Melissa Duffy 414-847-9501 mduffy@commongroundhealthcare.org Bay Area Medical Center joining Common Ground Healthcare’s Envision network BROOKFIELD, WIS (December...
Read MoreJohn Baker, a professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin, can talk about his research into the health risks astronauts face from galactic cosmic rays and solar storms during voyages into deep space, not to mention his pending experiments at a particle accelerator. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 12/5)
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