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Milwaukee man creates app to track air quality following wildfire smoke
Wisconsin recorded historic levels of air pollution last week due to Canadian wildfires. Milwaukee’s AQI, or air quality index, surpassed 600 July 16 — more than twice the hazardous threshold. City officials urged people to limit their exposure to smoky air outside. Children, older adults, pregnant people and...
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Bronzeville Snags State's First Trauma Recovery Center As MCW Moves In
The Medical College of Wisconsin is planting what it calls Wisconsin’s first Trauma Recovery Center inside ThriveOn King on King Drive in Bronzeville, setting up a one-stop clinic for survivors of violence that pairs trauma-focused therapy with case management and community navigation. The idea is simple, even if the need is anything but: bring culturally responsive mental health care into a neighborhood hub where people already go for jobs, child care and community programs, and wrap clinical treatment together with help for housing, benefits and other real-life hurdles that can stall recovery.
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Milwaukee VA Medical Center receives more federal funding for facility upgrades
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — The Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center is receiving another round of federal funding for infrastructure improvements as part of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ nationwide effort to modernize healthcare facilities. The third-quarter fiscal year 2026 funding will support several projects at the Milwaukee campus,...
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Elderly and disabled home care program in Wisconsin to permanently close, lays off 43 employees
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WFRV) – The Centers for Independence (CFI) has announced that it will be permanently closing its Milwaukee CFI Home Care program this October, according to a letter addressed to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development and Milwaukee city officials. MCFI is a nonprofit, certified Medical Assistance Personal Care Agency that provides in-home community-based […]
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Post From Community: Ascension Wisconsin and Outreach Community Health Centers launch mobile health clinic to serve medically underserved in Milwaukee
Editor’s note: Post From Community is the place for community announcements and event postings. If you have a community-oriented event you feel our readers would be interested in, please submit here. Ascension Wisconsin and Outreach Community Health Centers have launched an essential community health initiative through the Outreach Community...
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U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs: Milwaukee VA Medical Center receives funding for continued infrastructure improvements
MILWAUKEE – The Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center received funding for Non-recurring Maintenance projects in the third quarter of fiscal year 2026, after receiving funds earlier in the year. The funding is part of a record $4.8 billion in nationwide VA spending to modernize, repair, and improve health...
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Smoke heavily impacting Great Lakes tribes, Indigenous communities
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin – Smoke from Canadian wildfires that have ravaged entire First Nations communities continued to blow across the Great Lakes region Friday, even making its way into the Washington D.C. metro area. Across that region are nearly 30 tribal communities and several cities with significant Indigenous populations. Communities...
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Medical Excellence Profiles: Waukesha Surgical Specialists
Milwaukee is home to thousands of dedicated medical professionals. These profiles highlight a few of these remarkable people and give them the chance to share their work. Founded in 1976 by Dr. William B. Davies and Dr. Paul S. Fox, Waukesha Surgical Specialists includes 12 board-certified surgeons. They specialize in comprehensive, minimally invasive surgical care. Specialties include peripheral vascular disease, breast disease, colorectal disease, endocrine conditions, gastrointestinal problems, bariatric surgery, advanced laparoscopy and robotic surgery, surgical oncology and trauma.
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Marc Lasry: “I think COVID, what it did was, it could …
Marc Lasry: “I think COVID, what it did was, it could either split apart a team or it brings everybody together. Bud did a great job of keeping everybody together. We talked about it. Look, ‘We need to do this. We’re going to try to do team dinners, we’re going to try to do all these different things so the team could feel we’re all in this together.’ I think that ended up working well. I think Bud did a great job, but I also think the players understood what it meant and the players bought into it.“ Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel This article originally appeared on Hoops Hype: Marc Lasry: “I think COVID, what it did was, it could …
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MMSD hires third-party auditor to look into management concerns
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Commission voted on Monday to hire a consulting firm based in St. Paul, Minnesota, to conduct an independent, third-party audit into the private company that manages its facilities. EMA, Inc. will look into Veolia’s management of MMSD, including its compliance with the...
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Lake Michigan water is the ‘only reasonable alternative’ for Pewaukee
PEWAUKEE – Déjà vu in Waukesha County. Years after Waukesha transitioned to using Lake Michigan for its tap water supply, another community may need to do something similar. The city of Pewaukee and village of Pewaukee are dealing with contaminated well sources in their water supply. “The...
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New Berlin 6-Year-Old First in U.S. to Get Breakthrough Brain Drug at Children’s Wisconsin
Six-year-old Roran Jaskulski of New Berlin just became the face of a medical first. Children’s Wisconsin says it is the first hospital in the United States to give Avlayah, a newly FDA approved therapy engineered to reach the brain, to a child with Hunter syndrome. Roran has the neuronopathic...
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Project SEARCH graduates celebrate career milestone at Froedtert Hospital
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — A group of graduates celebrated a major milestone Thursday morning at Froedtert Hospital after completing a program designed to prepare young adults with disabilities for careers in health care. The graduates completed Project SEARCH, a nine-month internship program that provides hands-on job training and workplace...
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2026 Mental Health Improvement Fund Investment Areas
Achieving and maintaining good mental health is important during all stages of life, from conception through childhood, into adulthood and through older adults. Good mental health is essential at every stage of life, from childhood to adulthood and old age. The well-being of a community depends deeply on the mental wellness of its people. Yet, far too many individuals face barriers to accessing the mental health care they need.
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Medical Excellence Profiles: Advanced Retina
Milwaukee is home to thousands of dedicated medical professionals. These profiles highlight a few of these remarkable people and give them the chance to share their work. Advanced Retina is committed to delivering exceptional retinal care with compassion, expertise and innovation to patients throughout Southeastern Wisconsin. The practice specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of retinal diseases, including macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal tears and other vitreoretinal conditions.
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Untethered Airway Health Center Brings In-House Feeding Therapy to Brookfield – Closing a Critical Gap for SE Wisconsin Families
For families in southeastern Wisconsin, getting a tongue-tie diagnosis has never been the hard part. The hard part has always been what comes next – navigating a fragmented system of referrals, waitlists, and providers who don’t communicate with each other, all while a struggling infant or child waits. Untethered Airway Health Center in Brookfield is changing that. The practice has welcomed Caryn Singh, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC to its clinical team as an in-house feeding therapist, giving families direct access to specialized feeding and oral motor therapy alongside their airway and tongue-tie care.
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Walgreens store closings raise concern about pharmacy deserts
Residents and healthcare advocates in Milwaukee are expressing concern after another Walgreens location announced it will close its doors, raising fears about reduced access to prescription medications and pharmacy services in neighborhoods that already face healthcare challenges. The Walgreens store located at the intersection of North 27th Street and West...