Exact Sciences brought in about $230 million in screening revenue during the fourth quarter of last year, according to the company’s latest preliminary financial report. Screening revenue for that period was 61 percent higher than in the last three months of 2018, the report shows. The Madison...
Rogers Behavioral Health is planning a new residential treatment center in Sheboygan. The Oconomowoc-based behavioral health system plans to build a single-story, 12-bed community-based residential facility and a single-story meeting facility for group therapy meetings on a vacant 3-acre property at 1108 S. Wildwood Ave, according to...
Advocate Aurora Health is embarking on what it calls a “bold new strategy” to more than double its annual revenue by 2025 via mergers and acquisitions of health care systems, health insurers and consumer-facing health products. The initiative could transform the largest health care system in Wisconsin...
A private Dallas-based company that’s developing physical rehabilitation hospitals in multiple states proposed a $15 million facility in Greenfield. Nobis Rehabilitation Partners LLC was founded in 2018 and is developing and operating inpatient rehab hospitals, according to its website. The company is targeting projects in 21...
High-quality health care is one of Wisconsin’s greatest assets. Wisconsin hospitals and health systems provide affordable, accessible, quality care to their neighbors, friends and communities 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Access to quality care helps patients, of course. It also helps...
Hospitals and health systems in the state have a $119 billion impact on the state’s economy, according to a recent report from the Wisconsin Hospital Association. Hospitals alone contribute $47 billion to Wisconsin’s economy in labor income, total income, and industrial sales and revenue, the report...
A new study from UW-Madison researchers details a method for testing recovery from multiple sclerosis. In multiple sclerosis — or MS — the body’s immune system causes inflammation that damages nerve fibers as well as myelin, an insulating fatty substance supporting nerve function. MS also harms...
As an overall construction boom continues unabated in southeast Wisconsin, the local health care industry’s own surge will continue in 2020. Much of the development targets fast-growing areas of Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha counties but other area counties also will see activity. The building boom is driven...
As a new year unfolds and employers in all business sectors ponder how to make 2020 successful, the task of finding, training and keeping enough workers is often at the top of the list. Health care is no exception to the “new normal” of building a workforce. In fact,...
Scientists in Japan have begun a new clinical trial for a potential Ebola vaccine developed by researchers in the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. The new vaccine is different from most experimental vaccines, which typically use a secondary virus to deliver part of the Ebola virus...