As the state-designated entity for electronic health information exchange, the Wisconsin Statewide Health Information Network (WISHIN) has played a critical role in the Partnership’s work to reduce avoidable utilization and connect patients… Read More >
The Milwaukee Health Care Partnership’s Operations Council was recently joined by Andrea Palm, Secretary-designee for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Mary Jo Meyers, Milwaukee County’s Director of the Department… Read More >
The Milwaukee Enrollment Network and Covering Wisconsin have unveiled a new campaign to increase awareness of BagerCare Plus (Medicaid) and to remind consumers of the many benefits it covers. “We’ve… Read More >
Since 2011, the health system members of the Milwaukee Health Care Partnership have supported the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County through an annual Health Improvement Fund (HIF)… Read More >
Since 2009, more than 50,000 emergency department visitors have been referred to primary care health homes through a collaboration among Milwaukee’s adult health systems and more than twenty safety net… Read More >
The Milwaukee Health Care Partnership is prominently featured in a July report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) as part of its Culture of Health strategy. Milwaukee is one of… Read More >
Cathy Buck, MSN, RN, president of Froedtert Hospital, began a two-year term July 1 as chair of the Milwaukee Health Care Partnership. She succeeds Travis Andersen, south region president for… Read More >
Back by popular demand, the Partnership hosted its second annual MHCP Community Impact Tour in June, attended by nearly 40 health care leaders and stakeholders. Created for Partnership member executives, board chairs… Read More >
The Partnership’s health system members (Aurora Health Care, Ascension Wisconsin, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, and Froedtert Health) share the funding and design of Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) in six southeastern… Read More >
The Emergency Department Care Coordination (EDCC) Initiative seeks to decrease avoidable ED visits and related hospitalizations, and to reduce duplicative ED tests and procedures for Milwaukee’s low-income, vulnerable populations. One… Read More >