Health Care

Mike Thirtle, president and chief executive officer of Brookfield-based Bethesda Lutheran Communities, made the call in late February that its residential facilities would shelter in place – a decision that came weeks before most governors began issuing social distancing orders.

More than two weeks after it was set up the alternate care facility at Wisconsin State Fair Park has not received any COVID-19 patients yet, as southeastern Wisconsin hospitals have not experienced extreme capacity surges.

This may sound counter-intuitive given the state is still dealing with the largest pandemic in a century, but Wisconsin hospitals aren’t all that busy.

Advocate Aurora Health unveiled on Thursday a plan for regaining patient confidence as the system begins to resume elective procedures at its Wisconsin facilities.

Milwaukee-based biotech company Aluvis International, Inc. is raising capital to produce a system that can sanitize a large volume of mobile devices in high-traffic locations.

Advocate Aurora Health chief executive officer Jim Skogsbergh is taking a 50% salary reduction for at least the next quarter. 

Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday unveiled a new set of goals to bolster COVID-19 testing throughout the state, including testing all nursing homes, adding new drive-thru community testing sites and testing everyone associated with employer outbreaks.

Milwaukee- and Downers Grove, Illinois-based Advocate Aurora Health is deploying some nurses from the network's Wisconsin facilities to its Illinois hospitals that are seeing higher COVID-19 patient volumes.

Milwaukee-area health care providers are urging patients to not put off non-coronavirus-related preventive and routine visits amid the pandemic.

A potential single shot COVID-19 vaccine will be produced at Catalent, Inc.’s Madison biomanufacturing facility in Madison.