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While hospitals are challenged by rising labor and supply costs, the head of the Wisconsin Hospital Association says his “most fundamental concern” is attracting workers to the field. In a legislative briefing this week, WHA President and CEO Eric Borgerding told...

Wauwatosa-based Froedtert Health and Neenah-based ThedaCare are in talks to merge into one health system. The nonprofit hospital systems on Tuesday announced that they have signed a letter of intent “to start a process to combine our organizations into one health...

Food FiXR founder Dr. Grace Hameister is ready to change the way people look at food. The Doctor of Chiropractic, Functional and Integrative Medicine founded Food FiXR, an “interactive FoodTech and HealthTech platform” that allows users to make informed choices at the...

Microsoft Corp.’s $1 billion data center proposed for Mount Pleasant represents the largest capital investment by a company in southeast Wisconsin since at least 2005, and could put surrounding vacant land on the map to attract similar projects. Those were some of the...

In an advance they consider a breakthrough in computational chemistry research, University of Wisconsin–Madison chemical engineers have developed model of how catalytic reactions work at the atomic scale. This understanding could allow engineers and chemists to...

On April 11, 2023, the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) hosted a legislative briefing on health care workforce issues - read their 2023 workforce report. Speakers include: Eric Borgerding President and Chief Executive Officer Ann Zenk, RN, BSN, MHA Senior Vice...

An Ozaukee County venture capital fund participated in a round of Series A funding for a Cincinnati tech startup building an Uber-like last-mile delivery platform. The startup, Frayt, said Tuesday it has closed a $7 million round as it looks to roll out a new product...

With $1.5 million in newly raised capital on the heels of a successful demonstration of commercial-scale production, renewable chemicals startup Pyran Inc. is preparing for its first commercial plant. Madison-based Pyran makes a renewable, plant-based chemical that...

Economists have been predicting a recession, or at least a slowdown for sometime, but Wisconsin is seeing record unemployment and steady job growth, defying national numbers. A strong manufacturing sector has helped the state avoid a downtown thus far, but will growth...

ClearSky Health, a premier rehabilitative healthcare provider, selected a Wisconsin location for the site of its 15th medical rehabilitation hospital. ClearSky Rehabilitation Hospital Lakeshore, the organization's newest hospital, will be a 36-bed facility...

Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank announced today Jay Martin has joined the bank as president of its global fund services team. Martin will be based in Milwaukee. Martin will lead a global team that combines technology with customer service to offer customized product...

Following a competitive process, the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin selected the Wisconsin Broadband Workforce Coalition to lead workforce development planning efforts for the more than $1 billion broadband infrastructure investment coming to Wisconsin. The...

A simple drawing of what a weather balloon might look like from above led to Delafield-based artificial intelligence startup Synthetaic being featured in The New York Times. The company’s Rapid Automatic Image Categorization platform was able to track the Chinese spy...

Nine Wisconsin residents are included in Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s billionaires. That’s up one from last year. The death of Kohler Co. executive chairman Herbert Kohler Jr. last year eliminated his from the list. Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, the...

Scale Up Milwaukee‘s ninth cohort of the SPARC accelerator program is now underway. The program, presented in collaboration with the African American Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin (AACCWI) and Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC), provides...