Lauren Anderson
🔒 EEOC reaches agreement with Rogers Behavioral Health over former employee’s...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Rogers Behavioral Health have reached an agreement to resolve a former employee’s allegations of disability discrimination.Â
🔒 Monterey Mills president battled COVID-19 while spearheading his company’s face...
Dan Sinykin, president of Janesville-based Monterey Mills, decided his company had to act fast once he saw reports of nationwide PPE shortages as the fight against COVID-19 ramped up in mid-March.Â
🔒 State investigating 187 facility-based COVID-19 outbreaks, including 48 in workplaces
State public health officials are investigating 187 facility-based outbreaks of COVID-19, including 48 in workplaces. Â
MACC Fund receives $1 million gift to fund research at Medical...
The Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer (MACC) Fund has received a $1 million gift from the Costigan Family Giving Fund to support research initiatives at the Medical College of Wisconsin and UW Carbone Cancer Center.
🔒 Advocate Aurora to dole out $15 million in special employee...
Advocate Aurora Health will distribute special cash award payments totalling $15 million to its employees, chief executive officer Jim Skogsbergh announced Tuesday.Â
🔒 Froedtert to test promising antiviral drug remdesivir on coronavirus patients
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin said Wednesday it will begin administering remdesivir – an experimental COVID-19 drug that has shown some promise at fighting the coronavirus – to some of its critically ill patients.Â
COVID-19 patient back home after receiving plasma, ventilator alternative at Froedtert
A 27-year-old man has returned home after being treated for COVID-19 with convalescent plasma and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation at Froedtert Hospital.
Bader Philanthropies distributes $1.4 million in emergency funding for nonprofits
Bader Philanthropies, Inc. has distributed $1.4 million in grants to help southeastern Wisconsin nonprofits provide services on the ground in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.Â
Advocate Aurora chief nursing officer on the COVID-19 fight
Mary Beth Kingston, the health system's chief nursing officer, discussed what the experience of fighting the pandemic has been like for nurses and other health care staff, how the system is responding to employee needs and how she expects the coronavirus will affect the future of nursing.
New Evers order allows curbside drop-off service for some nonessential businesses
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers announced a new order Monday that will ease a few restrictions on nonessential businesses beginning Wednesday.Â
Monterey Mills, Eder Flag ramp up to produce 65,000 face masks...
Since reconfiguring its manufacturing capabilities five weeks ago to produce reusable face masks for frontline medical personnel, Janesville-based Monterey Mills, in partnership with Oak Creek-based Eder Flag, is now pumping out 65,000 face masks daily, fulfilling orders for large health care systems and first responders across the country.Â
Advocate Aurora Health discloses COVID-19 patient volumes
Advocate Aurora Health has 90 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in its Wisconsin hospitals, the health system disclosed Thursday.Â
Those patients are among the health system’s 719...