On The Record Archives - Wisconsin Health News

Nursing homes call for Medicaid rate increase, payment reform

by Sean Kirkby | Nov 15, 2019 | Long Term Care, On The Record, Top Stories | 0 |

Nursing homes laud policymakers for boosting their Medicaid rates in the state’s current budget. But providers say they need a greater increase, as well as payment reform, to address a gap between the cost of providing care and how much they're reimbursed.

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Redox positions itself to be ahead of curve on expected health data rule

by Sean Kirkby | Nov 8, 2019 | Health Tech, On The Record, Top Stories | 0 |

Madison-based Redox is working to get ahead of the curve on data that electronic health record vendors are beginning to provide.

Ascension Wisconsin, Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Specialists collaborate on new surgery center

by Sean Kirkby | Nov 1, 2019 | On The Record, Top Stories | 0 |

Ascension Wisconsin and Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Specialists broke ground on a new orthopedic clinic and surgery center in the Fox Valley last week. The clinic is set to open in fall 2020.

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Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin helps bring vaping-related illness to light

by Sean Kirkby | Oct 25, 2019 | Hospitals, On The Record, Top Stories | 0 |

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin providers identified a common thread among a series of young patients admitted to their hospital this summer who were struggling to breathe: All had a history of vaping.

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On the record with Greg Simmons, CEO, MetaStar

by Sean Kirkby | Oct 18, 2019 | On The Record, Top Stories | 0 |

Greg Simmons recently announced that he will retire from MetaStar in January, after four decades with the organization and 33 as its president and CEO.

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Hospital leaders talk costs, social determinants of health

by Sean Kirkby | Oct 11, 2019 | Hospitals, On The Record, Top Stories | 0 |

Hospital leaders weighed in on what health systems can do to cut costs and the role they should play in addressing the social determinants of health at a Wisconsin Health News panel this week.

FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics Inc.’s new facility set to produce cells for human clinical trials

by Sean Kirkby | Oct 4, 2019 | Health Tech, On The Record, Top Stories | 0 |

Last month, FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics Inc. held an opening ceremony for a new building that will allow the Madison company to manufacture cells for use in human clinical trials.

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Ballweg outlines recommendations of suicide prevention task force

by Sean Kirkby | Sep 27, 2019 | Legislature, On The Record, Top Stories | 0 |

This week, the Speaker’s Task Force on Suicide Prevention unveiled its recommendations, ranging from creating a suicide prevention program at the Department of Health Services to requiring student ID cards to have the phone number of a suicide prevention hotline.

Periscope Project looks to expand reach

by Sean Kirkby | Sep 20, 2019 | Mental Health, On The Record, Top Stories | 0 |

The Periscope Project, which offers support and education to providers working with pregnant and postpartum women with mental health challenges, is looking at ways to expand its reach.

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Lawmakers talk healthcare priorities

by Sean Kirkby | Sep 13, 2019 | Legislature, On The Record, Top Stories | 0 |

Lawmakers weighed in on bills expanding Medicaid, regulating pharmacy benefit managers, licensing dental therapists to practice in the state, legalizing medical marijuana and defining direct primary care at a Wisconsin Health News event this week.

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National Farm Medicine Center director talks farmer safety, mental health

by Sean Kirkby | Sep 6, 2019 | Hospitals, On The Record, Top Stories | 0 |

Casper Bendixsen, director of the National Farm Medicine Center, a department within the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, said that rural populations like farmers, their workers and their families, have their own unique needs.

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Advocate Aurora Health exec talks diversity

by Sean Kirkby | Aug 30, 2019 | Hospitals, On The Record, Top Stories | 0 |

“It’s not a separate initiative,” Erickajoy Daniels, Advocate Aurora Health’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, said in a recent interview. “It’s a strategic imperative.”

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