Health Care

Grand Rapids, Michigan-based retailer Meijer, which has 12 stores in Wisconsin, today announced that people can now register to receive COVID-19 vaccines at its stores.

Milwaukee County and four partnering area health systems are eyeing a site at 12th and Walnut streets on Milwaukee’s near north side for their mental health emergency center joint venture.

Ascension Wisconsin has hired a former Advocate Aurora Health executive as the next president of its Fox Valley hospitals.

As Wisconsin continues to trail its Midwestern peers in distributing the COVID-19 vaccine, Republican Congressman Bryan Steil on Monday criticized Gov. Tony Evers' Administration's rollout effort while Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin said the Trump Administration is to blame for delays.

Gov. Tony Evers joined a group of governors calling on the federal government to release more COVID-19 vaccine doses to their states, saying it has held back supply.

The city of Milwaukee said it will administer 100 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to frontline health workers and members of the fire department beginning this morning.

The effort to get the first COVID-19 vaccine dose to the residents and workers in Wisconsin’s 360 nursing facilities is on track to be completed by the end of the month, according to a long-term care industry leader.

Froedtert Health will acquire a majority membership interest in Manitowoc-based Holy Family Memorial Medical Center, a deal that will expand the Wauwatosa-based system’s reach into northeastern Wisconsin.

In the four weeks since Wisconsin began its effort to vaccinate the state's roughly 450,000 frontline health care workers, just over 85,600 doses have been administered, according to data released Tuesday afternoon by the Department of Health Services. 

North Carolina-based Broadstep Behavioral Health, Inc. has acquired Good Hope Manor, LLC, a Milwaukee-based operator of assisted living facilities.