Madeline Heim

Health care staffing strains played out in the courtroom Friday morning.

ThedaCare lawyers asked the court last week to temporarily stop seven of its employees from taking new jobs at a nearby hospital.

Lawyers for ThedaCare filed a notice of voluntary dismissal of the case Friday with the Outagamie County clerk of courts.

Skiing, ice fishing and other sports face shorter seasons as snowfall and lake ice cover are affected by rising temperatures.

The therapist will embed with the police department on second shift to provide on-site clinical evaluations and risk assessments for people in crisis.

A month ago, the number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the Fox Valley was the highest of the pandemic. Today, it’s less than a third of that.

The COVID-19 case burden in the Fox Valley is a fourth of what it was at the end of last month, the region still has a high level of virus activity.

The change is in line with new CDC guidance for areas with lower COVID-19 transmission.

In 2015, the state reported zero cases of syphilis in newborns. In 2020, there were five. It may not sound like much, health officials say, but when each one was preventable, it’s five cases too many.

Children’s museums have been recognized as a conduit for information about COVID-19 vaccines and museums are considered trustworthy sources.

The news release did not say specifically how old the children were or where in Wisconsin they lived.

Wisconsin nursing vacancies are at the highest level in at least a decade. The crisis will worsen if steps aren’t taken now, the state hospital association warns.

As of last week, the city’s public coronavirus dashboard listed 81 deaths due to COVID-19; on Monday, it increased to 149 deaths.

Sepers, who was previously a health officer in Nebraska, said he was drawn to Appleton’s progressive public health policies.

The two grant programs aim to expand access to mental health services for children and make telehealth appointments easier to access.

The organization received more than $7.7 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding from Gov. Tony Evers on March 8.

A group of volunteer pilots is growing fast since the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn abortion protections.

Nearly nine months after an Afghan dentist was forced to leave his home country, his skills are filling a gap in dental health care in Appleton.

The report, released last week, shows increasingly wetter conditions in the Upper Mississippi over the past few decades.

Both Michigan and Illinois have parks recognized by the International Dark Sky Association.