Category: Health

Noted: The Clinic will work as part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison regional coordinating center along with several other Wisconsin health care institutions.

UW Health is joining health care systems across the state to form a one-of-a-kind partnership.

Six of Wisconsin?s largest health care systems are forming a statewide network to contract with insurers, and to share what works best for each group. The partnership includes health systems that serve about 90-percent of Wisconsinites ? Aurora Health of Milwaukee, U-W Health of Madison, Gundersen of La Crosse, Aspirus of Wausau, Bellin of Green Bay, and ThedaCare of Neenah.

Noted: ?The Veterans Affairs Health Workforce Enhancement Act will be enormously helpful in alleviating this critical physician shortage,? said Robert N. Golden, Dean of the School of Medicine and Public Health and Vice Chancellor of Medical Affairs at UW-Madison. ?By highlighting primary care and mental health, the Act focuses resources on those areas with the greatest need. Increasing the number of residency training opportunities through the VA system will provide great benefit to our veterans, and ultimately also improve access to care for all Americans.?

Noted: Edmond connected you with Dr. Michael Struck, a practicing pediatric ophthalmologist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Struck quickly got Allyson in for an examination, and he recommended immediate patching as the treatment, as her eyesight in that eye had already gotten worse. She?ll have follow-up visits with another doctor closer to home.

Hundreds of households in Dane, Racine and Wood counties will be asked to take a physical exam and fill out health questionnaires this year for a UW-Madison study that could shape health policies.

The Wisconsin Board of Nursing on Thursday suspended the license of Stefanie Jones, a former nurse at UW Hospital who police say stole pain medication from patients.

Noted: Christensen has had ownership roles in seven clinics across the state and in Michigan and has practiced in many others. Christensen was a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for decades and taught students to perform abortions in his clinic in Madison. He said the medical community, though not always inclusive, accepted and appreciated his practice.

As a UW Health hospitalist, or doctor who specializes in treating patients in the hospital, Ann Sheehy sees a growing problem: patients whose hospitalizations are considered observation stays.

Meriter-UnityPoint Health and UW Hospital and Clinics have signed a nonbinding letter of intent to strengthen their cooperative relationship around mother and baby health.

Workers unions are ending at University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics — three years after state lawmakers passed a law restricting collective bargaining.

Some Wisconsin hospitals could face federal penalties for high rates of infections.

University of Wisconsin Health pediatrician Dr. Dipesh Navsaria is part of a national academy panel that has been assessing what drives early brain development. At a recent talk to the Madison Rotary Club, he explained how his job is changing.

Sixty-five Wisconsin hospitals, including Meriter and UW Hospitals and Clinics in Madison, are on a preliminary list of 750 hospitals nationwide that could be penalized by Medicare in October for high rates of infections and patient injuries.

Noted: Shortly after completing medical school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003 — and at age 22. becoming the medical school?s youngest graduate — Sauerhammer returned to the Miss Wisconsin competition. This time, she gave a voice to the importance of organ and tissue donation.

Looking for ways to help women maintain a healthy weight before, during and after pregnancy led Anderson, the medical director of UW Health?s new Arboretum Obstetrics & Gynecology clinic on South Park Street, down a path that has brought the centering pregnancy approach to Dane County.

Noted: The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the Medical College of Wisconsin and Health First Wisconsin should have participated in that effort, the four wrote.

UW-Marathon County is getting ready to open up their first year of physician assistant training.

Three Madison-area patients and two UW Health doctors are among nearly two dozen patients and doctors in the film.

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) says the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is doing a good job graduating primary care physicians at time when the role is in high demand.

The University of Wisconsin ranks among the top 10 U.S. medical schools in producing graduates who go into family practice.

Medical technology company Medtronic said it is paying $22 million to settle about 1,000 legal claims over its controversial spine surgery product known as Infuse and it is setting aside up to $140 million for an even larger number of expected claims.

The SwedishAmerican Health System based in Rockford and University of Wisconsin Health based in Madison announced their intention to merge on Tuesday.