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Two regional health care systems are training their personnel on what to do if an active shooter enters their workplace. ThedaCare and Ministry Health Care, which includes Affinity Health System, began training their managers and other leadership in the spring, and rolled out the educational program to other employees. The two health systems employ more than 10,000 people in Northeast Wisconsin.
ThedaCare hired Sara Mitchell, PA-C, to work at ThedaCare Physicians-Clintonville. Sara provides quality family care to a wide range of patients.
ThedaCare has hired Joshua Block, MD, a family medicine physician at ThedaCare Physicians–Darboy. Dr. Block has special interest in sports medicine, musculoskeletal illnesses and in-office procedures.
The medical records of patients from Community Health Network (CHN) and Wild Rose Community Memorial Hospital will now be accessible electronically to medical providers at ThedaCare, following an electronic health records expansion after the three Northeast health systems affiliated.
In our world where we focus so much on process, tasks, productivity, and efficiency, sometimes it is easy to forget what matters most to our patients. While we strive to meet their needs smoothly and efficiently here is what our patients most remember.
ThedaCare has promoted Chris Hess to the new position of vice president, market development and sales.
Jonah Wagner did something in early February he wasn’t sure was going to happen: He attended a class at the University of Wisconsin‒Oshkosh. Wagner was riding his motorcycle at a high rate of speed last August 3 when he wasn’t able to negotiate a curve and his brakes locked up, sending him directly into a fence post.
ThedaCare’s Black Creek-area patients and their families have been consistently served by a combination of nurse practitioners and a part-time physician since the transfer of Dr. Erin Trost from the clinic late last year.
Community Health Network (CHN) and Wild Rose Community Memorial Hospital (WRCMH) systems, which include non-profit community hospitals and clinics in Northeast Wisconsin, will begin integrating into ThedaCare on June 30.
One of ThedaCare At Work Occupational Health’s services to the City of Appleton is management of firefighter surveillance exams, which assess any ill health resulting in the line of duty and also determine an individual firefighter’s fitness for continued duty. A significant amount of detail goes into the exam findings and, with limited time to review results, firefighters usually get a bottom line outcome: ”You pass this year.”
ThedaCare has named Mark Hallett, MD, chief clinical officer. In this newly designed role, Dr. Hallett will be responsible for providing clinical and administrative leadership to improve safety and quality as well as physician leadership development throughout ThedaCare.
Employees with the City of Waupaca are looking at healthy lifestyles a little more positively.
ThedaCare Child Learning Center has earned accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the nation’s leading organization of early childhood professionals. The ThedaCare Child Learning Center is on the Appleton Medical Center campus and serves the children of ThedaCare employees.
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