UW Health announced today that organ transplant recipients as well as patients on its waiting list will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Dr. Dixon Kaufman, medical director for UW Health’s Transplant Center, says transplant recipients are at “far greater risk” of severe illness or death...
University of Wisconsin Health will participate in a study of the effects of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine in young children. UW Health's American Family Children's Hospital in Madison will be one of about 100 sites involved in the study. The project aims to enroll about 12,000 children under...
-- UW Health is the latest health system in the state to announce it will require employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. A release shows that 90 percent of UW Health staff are already vaccinated. Under the new policy, employees that are still unvaccinated must start...
-- A new collaboration between three UW-Madison health and research organizations aims to identify and improve treatments for rare genetic diseases. The UW Undiagnosed Genetic Disease Clinic was recently launched in Madison by UW Health, the Waisman Center and the UW School of Medicine and...
Madison, Wis. — As the United States faces a widespread shortage of nurses, UW Health has started an ambulatory nurse residency program aimed to help new nurses begin their first professional nursing job and avoid burn out. This 12-month program began in February 2021 and was...
With the recent retirement of Chief Medical Officer Dr. Mark Kaufman, the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) has tapped UW-Health’s Dr. Chris Green to serve as the organization’s top physician leader to provide expert guidance and perspective on issues affecting hospitals and health systems in Wisconsin....