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Fort HealthCare Post Slimdown Challenge 2019

Community Health
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Community Members Shed Weight While Learning Healthy Habits On Tuesday, May 21, the eighth annual Fort HealthCare Slimdown Challenge ended. Over 660 participants spent six weeks developing healthy habits. In addition to seeking motivation to live healthier and more active lifestyles, this year’s participants reported a combined weight loss of 1,244 pounds. The Fort HealthCare […]

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Fort HealthCare Offers Camp 911 Program This Summer for Children in Grades 4-6

Community
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Registration is open for the annual Fort HealthCare Camp 911 event. This event is a one-day interactive program offered twice in the summertime and focuses on safety, health and wellness for children that are entering grades 4-6 in the upcoming 2019-2020 school year. Registrations are first-come, first-served basis, and are limited to 70 participants in […]

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Fort HealthCare Welcomes New Child Therapist Provider, Tracey Atkinson, LPC

Health, Wellness & You
Friday, May 10, 2019

Fort HealthCare Behavioral Health is pleased to welcome a new child therapist to its team of providers. Tracey Atkinson, LPC joins the expert team of providers at the Fort HealthCare Behavioral Health and Internal Medicine & Pediatrics clinics in Fort Atkinson. Tracey received her training at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, IA and the University […]

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Fort HealthCare Partners Honor Volunteer of the Year

Community
Friday, May 10, 2019

The Fort HealthCare Partners organization recently celebrated their volunteers during National Volunteer Week. An awards dinner banquet was held to recognize nearly 200 hospital volunteers for contributing 22,728 volunteer hours in 2018. Speakers honoring banquet attendees included Fort HealthCare’s President and CEO, Mike Wallace, CFO Jim Nelson, Fort Memorial Hospital Foundation Director Dwight Heaney, Volunteer […]

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Fort HealthCare Offers Speech Kids Summer Enrichment Program

Health, Wellness & You
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Fort HealthCare is offering Speech Kids again this summer for children ages 3-9 who may benefit from the program during part of the summertime. The program will take place twice a week for four weeks. The cost is $120 for the entire program. Registration closes on June 7, 2019. Sessions will run from July 8 […]

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Cambridge Native and Fort HealthCare Pharmacy Resident Presents at State Conference

Community Health
Friday, April 26, 2019

Cambridge, WI native and Fort HealthCare Pharmacy Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY1) Resident, Caleb Chitwood, PharmD, presented his research work to a well-attended collaboration of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians from across Wisconsin at the Wisconsin Pharmacy Residency Conference held at Monona Terrace in Madison, WI in April. At the conference, sponsored by the Pharmacy Society of […]

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THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL NAMES FORT HEALTHCARE A WINNER OF THE SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN TOP WORKPLACES 2019 AWARD

Friday, April 19, 2019

Fort HealthCare has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2019 honor by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by research partner Energage, LLC, a leading provider of technology-based employee engagement tools. The anonymous survey measures several aspects of workplace culture, including alignment, execution, and […]

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Becker’s Hospital Review names Fort HealthCare’s Mike Wallace one of the 50 rural hospital and health system CEOs to know.

Monday, April 15, 2019

Fort HealthCare’s Chief Executive Officer and President Mike Wallace has been named to the 2019 list of “50 Rural Hospital CEOs to Know” by Becker’s Hospital Review, this is his second time making the list. The list features some of the most impressive leaders dedicated to advancing health care in small towns and rural communities […]

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Fort HealthCare Launches Virtual Care

Community Health
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

e+Care to Improve Patient Access and Convenience Fort HealthCare announces the launch of e+Care – an online diagnosis and treatment service that provides residents of Wisconsin convenient access to care by connecting them virtually with trusted local Fort HealthCare providers. e+Care facilitates care delivery through evidence-based online adaptive interviews, where patients can now seek care […]

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Fort Memorial Hospital receives 5 Star rating from CMS

Friday, March 15, 2019

Fort HealthCare is proud to share that Fort Memorial Hospital, Fort Atkinson, WI was named one of only 293 hospitals (out of 4,500 hospitals that participate) in the nation to achieve overall 5-Star ranking in the Medicare Hospital Compare performance measure. The more stars earned the better a hospital performed on quality measures. Three stars […]

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