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Wisconsin Health System Setting Up Retail Healthcare Clinics for Other Systems Across the Nation
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,Bellin Health,retain clinics,FastCare clinics) Bellin Health Care System in Green Bay, Wis., has developed a thriving side business providing turnkey retail health clinics for other health systems, according to a report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. ... -
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10 Simple Ways to Contain Costs: How Sacred Heart Hospital Saved $5M
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,Sacred Heart Hospital,cost cutting,Faye Deich,cutting expenses) When $7 million of Eau Claire, Wis.-based Sacred Heart Hospital's revenue was threatened by the opening of a competing outpatient facility, its leaders devised a plan to recoup $5 million of the lost revenue ... -
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Wisconsin's Mercy Walworth Hospital and Medical Center to Triple in Size
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,hospital,expansion,Mercy Health System,Lake Geneva,Mercy Walworth Hospital) Mercy Health System in Lake Geneva, Wis., has announced the groundbreaking for a $45 million expansion for its Mercy Walworth Hospital and Medical Center, also in Lake Geneva. -
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Wisconsin Governor to Sign Funding Bill for Critical Access Hospitals
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,critical access hospitals,Jim Doyle) Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle is expected to sign a bill to help critical access hospitals leverage federal funds and other resources, according to a report by the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen. ... -
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Wisconsin's Aurora Health Care Considering Site for Next Hospital
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,Aurora Health Care,Froedert & Community Health,Milwaukee) Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care is looking into purchasing land in Richfield, Wis., for a new hospital, according to a report by the Business Journal of Milwaukee. -
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Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Begins Scheduled 'Billing Clinics' to Educate Patients on Financial Responsibilities
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare,billing clinics,bad debt,financial responsibility) Glendale, Wis.-based Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare has started offering billing clinics where patients can make an appointment to meet one-on-one with a billing specialist to discuss outstanding questions ... -
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Hospital in Wisconsin Expanded Surgery Center, Clinic
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,surgery center,ThedaCare,clinic) New London (Wis.) Family Medical Center is about to open a new $10 million surgery center and clinic, according to the Post-Crescent. -
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Wisconsin's Edgerton Hospital Breaking Ground on $26M Replacement
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,replacement facility,Edgerton Hospital) After seven years of planning to replace a structure started in 1923, Edgerton (Wis.) Hospital plans to break ground next month on a $26 million replacement hospital, according to a release by Edgerton ... -
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Wisconsin's St. Joseph's Hospital Names New CEO
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,CEO,Hospital Sisters Health System,St Josephs Hospital) Hospital Sisters Health System and the board of directors of St. Joseph's Hospital in Chippewa Falls, Wis., named Joan Coffman as incoming president and CEO, according to an HSHS news release. -
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Steve Ronstrom: Hardwiring Mission and Values Into the Hospital Culture
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,hospital,Sacred Heart Hospital,leadership,Steve Ronstrom,Hospital Sisters Health,hardwiring,mission,values) For an organization to succeed, it is important that everyone accepts its mission and values, from frontline caregivers to leaders in the C-suite. Motivated and engaged people make for a healthy organization, ... -
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President of Wisconsin Hospital Resigns
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,Good Samaritan Health Center,Michael Hammer) Michael Hammer has resigned the presidency of 73-bed Good Samaritan Health Center in Merrill, Wis., to look for jobs outside 16-hospital Ministry Health Care, which runs the hospital, according to a report ... -
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Wisconsin Hospital Plans $45M Replacement
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,construction,replacement hospital,Langlade Hospital) Langlade Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Antigo, Wis., is planning a $45 million replacement facility for the 77-year-old hospital, according to a report by WSAW TV. -
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CFO of Milwaukee's Froedtert Health to Retire
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,Froedert & Community Health,Milwaukee) Blaine O'Connell, CFO of Froedtert & Community Health in Milwaukee, has announced that he will retire at the end of the year, according to a report by the Journal Sentinel. -
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Blaine O'Connell, CFO of Milwaukee's Froedtert & Community Health, to Retire
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,CFO,retirement,Froedtert & Community Health) Blaine O'Connell, the CFO of Froedtert & Community Health in Milwaukee, plans to retire Jan. 1, 2011, after a 30-year healthcare career. He has been senior vice president of finance and CFO since Froedtert ... -
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Providers Must Disclose Prices of Common Procedures Under New Wisconsin Bill
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,legislation,transparency,prices) Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has signed legislation that requires hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers to disclose the cost of the most common procedures they perform so consumers have price-estimates ... -
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Illinois' SwedishAmerican Health Partners with University of Wisconsin Health
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,Illinois,affiliation,SwedishAmerican,UW Health) Rockford, Ill.-based SwedishAmerican Health System and Madison, Wis.-based UW Health have announced an affiliation agreement, according to a joint news release from the organizations. -
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Wisconsin's St. Nicholas Hospital Names New CEO
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,CEO,Andrew Bagnall,St. Nicholas Hospital) Hospital Sisters Health System has named Andrew J. Bagnall as the new president and CEO of St. Nicholas Hospital in Sheboygan, Wis., effective March 15, according to a report by the Sheboygan Press. -
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Newspaper Says New Wisconsin Hospital Might Raise Healthcare Costs
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,new hospital,Aurora Health Care,Summit) Aurora Health Care will open a $200 million hospital and clinic in Summit, Wis., on March 1, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. -
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Surgeons at Wisconsin's All Saints Hospital Concerned About New Anesthesia Model
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,anesthesia,surgeons,Wheaton All Saints,care models,nurse anesthetists) Surgeons at Wheaton Franciscan-All Saints hospital in Racine, Wis., have raised concerns over a change in hospital policy that uses more nurse anesthetists than anesthesiologists, in spite of a growing ... -
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Will Hear Medical Society's Case Against State For Using Liability Fund to Balance Budget
(Matching tags: lawsuit,Wisconsin,Wisconsin Medical Society,medical liability fund) The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case brought forward by the Wisconsin Medical Society contesting 2007 legislation that allowed the state to transfer money from its medical liability compensation ... -
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Wisconsin Senate Approves Bill to Expand Medical Malpractice Claims
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,medical malpractice,medical negligence) The Wisconsin Senate has approved a bill that would allow parents of adult children to sue medical providers for pain and suffering if their children died as a result of medical negligence, according to ... -
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Tax on Wisconsin Hospitals Boosts Medicaid Payments
(Matching tags: hospital tax,Medicaid,Wisconsin) A new tax on Wisconsin hospitals has allowed the state to collect $1.65 in federal Medicaid reimbursements for every $1 taxed, according to a report by WBAY TV. ... -
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Rural Wisconsin Hospitals Seek to Tax Themselves to Boost Medicaid Funding
(Matching tags: hospital tax,Wisconsin,critical-access hospitals) Following state cuts in Medicaid funding, Wisconsin's 59 critical access hospitals in rural areas are calling for a 1.6 percent tax on their patient revenues to create $10 million a year in additional ... -
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Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin Opens Fourth Urgent Care Clinic
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,Froedtert Hospital,urgent care clinic) Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin has opened its fourth urgent care center, located in the western suburbs of Milwaukee, according to a release from Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin. ... -
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Wisconsin Town Boards' Decision Put Hospital's Expansion Plans on Hold
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,Sauk Prairie Memorial Hospital,boundary agreement,development) The boards of the town and village of Prairie du Sac, Wis., and the town of Sauk City, Wis., have approved an intergovernmental boundary agreement, which may postpone expansions plans proposed by Sauk ... -
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Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin Moves Into Larger Facility to Accommodate Growth
(Matching tags: Wisconsin) The Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin has moved into a larger replacement hospital next to the old facility in Glendale, Wis., according to the Business Journal of Milwaukee. ... -
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Beloit, Wis., Hospital and Clinic to Merge
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,Beloit Memorial Hospital,Beloit Clinic) Beloit (Wis.) Memorial Hospital and Beloit Clinic are finalizing plans to merge into Beloit Health System, according to a report by the Janesville Gazette. -
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Milwaukee Hospital Names New President
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,president,Columbia St. Marys) Columbia St. Mary's has named Deborah Friberg as the new president of Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee (Wis.), according to a report in The Business Journal of Milwaukee. -
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Community Hospital Develops Cutting-Edge Surgical Technology
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,Sacred Heart Hospital,iMRI,Kamal Thapar) Kamal Thapar, MD, PhD, a neurosurgeon at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire, Wis., laughs at the idea that only large academic medical centers can have cutting-edge technology. -
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Construction Begins on New 50-Bed Hospital in Janesville, Wis.
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,SSM Healthcare,construction,hospital) SSM Healthcare and the Dean Clinic have begun construction of a 50-bed hospital and a 150,000-square-foot clinic in Janesville, Wis., according to a release from SSM Healthcare. -
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University of Wisconsin Physicians Speak Out Against New Speaker Fee Policies
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,University of Wisconsin,speaker fees,ban) Physicians at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis., have raised concerns about a proposed change to the University's conflict-of-interest rules that would allow physicians to make presentations ... -
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Milwaukee Medical Group Names Mayo Executive as COO
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,Mayo Clinic,Aurora Medical Group,COO) Aurora Medical Group in Milwaukee, Wis., has named Brent Phillips as its new COO, according to a report in The Business Journal of Milwaukee. -
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Wisconsin Health System Keeps Costs Low While Maintaining Quality
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,healthcare costs,Gunderson Lutheran,quality care) La Crosse, Wis.-based Gunderson Lutheran ranks among the top health systems in the country when it comes to keeping costs low and quality high, according to a report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. ... -
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Amy Dwyer, Chief Nursing Officer at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire, Wis., Outlines Her 3 Top Goals for 2010
(Matching tags: Wisconsin,Sacred Heart Hospital,Amy Dwyer,goals,evidence-based healthcare) 1. Create a deliberate growth strategy. Every hospital should have a growth strategy, especially in this economy. You need to ask yourselves, "How are you going to develop as a business?" This hospital ... -
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Construction to Begin on New Wisconsin Hospital
(Matching tags: Wisconsin) Construction is set to begin on the new 50-bed St. Mary's Janesville (Wis.) Hospital, according to a report by WIFR News. -
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Wheaton Healthcare to Open Orthopedic Hospital With Physicians
(Matching tags: hospitals,Wheaton Franciscan,Wisconsin,orthopedics) Milwaukee-based Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare will open a $30 million orthopedic hospital with 24 independent physicians, according to a report in The Business Journal of Milwaukee.
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