By Thaddeus Wontor, Southwest Health Optometrist Have you ever wondered how the idea of contact lenses came to be? They can be a great option for people who wear glasses. Some people wear contacts for sports or outdoor activities, or even for specialized tasks such as SCUBA diving or motorcycle riding. Odds are, if there’s [read more]
Name Hazel Jane Kirschbaum Date of Birth June 3, 2019 Time 10:46 a.m. Weight 7lbs 4oz Length 20in Parents Hannah & Dylan Provider Dr. Sc [read more]
Southwest Health announces a major community event is coming to southwest Wisconsin with the return of celebrity nutritionist Zonya Foco, RDN. In 2010 Zonya delivered a rousing presentation to a Platteville crowd numbering more than 300, and on Tuesday, June 18, she returns to inspire once again with an all new program titled, “Get Your [read more]
Now in their second year, the Sole Mates free community walking club organized by Southwest Health is bringing back the highly popular 100 Miles in 100 Days Community Walking Challenge. Both the club’s walking season and the walking challenge are set to begin Monday, May 20th with one mile and three mile walks beginning at [read more]
The Platteville Quota Club demonstrated once again their dedication to children’s hearing by making another recent donation toward the newly purchased ALGO machine. The ALGO machine is used to identify infant hearing loss in babies soon after birth. This new machine replaces an older model, which the Quota Club also helped purchase. Danielle Leibfried, OB [read more]
Five years ago, the Platteville Quota Club joined hundreds of other contributors in pledging a donation to ensure Southwest Health would be able to provide the lifesaving technology of 3D Digital Mammography for the region’s communities. Their pledge totaled $5,000. Recently, Southwest Health’s CEO, Dan Rohrbach, and Imaging Director, JoAnn Geissbuhler, accepted the final pledge [read more]
Defying national trends Southwest Health in Platteville continues recruiting high caliber doctors and advanced medical practitioners and building an ever-larger, ever-stronger Medical Staff. In hospitals across the country, the health care workforce is registering increasingly larger gaps between job openings and new hires in positions across the board, but Southwest Health is successfully growing and [read more]
A Southwest Health ambulance transporting a patient to a Madison hospital was involved in a single vehicle rollover Monday afternoon. The accident happened about 12:30 pm on Highway 18/151 near the Highway H overpass at Ridgeway as the ambulance was buffeted by winds in a heavy downpour. The patient and one of the two member [read more]
One in five adults nationwide – or about 14,000 adults right here in southwest Wisconsin – experiences mental illness in any given year. In addition, one in 10 children lives with a serious mental or emotional disorder. Despite such rates of mental illness in our families and in our communities, a persistent stigma around mental [read more]
The Ann & Leo Stoll Jr. Charitable Trust (managed by Mound City Bank) and Southwest Health’s Employees that Care (ETC) Committee teamed up recently to jointly fund the purchase of a new pediatric therapeutic swing. Therapeutic swings help with a seemingly endless list of pediatric growth and development concerns. Occupational Therapist Elizabeth Welsh, OT, appreciates [read more]
