Southwest Health announces the expansion of its Eye Center in Lancaster into a new space at 1511 Ihm Street, Suite 2, a building that is also home to US Cellular of Lancaster. The new eye clinic space is now undergoing renovations with an anticipated opening in December. The new Eye Center in Lancaster will be [read more]
Southwest Health is proud to announce Jeffrey Kueter, MD, has joined the team at the Platteville Clinic at Southwest Health. Born and raised in Platteville, Dr. Kueter served more than 20 years in the U.S. Air Force, providing the full scope of exceptional military family medicine in 42 countries around the globe, including inpatient, outpatient, [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]
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]
Each year, the America’s Farmers Grow Communities program partners with local farmers to provide grants to local nonprofits. Sponsored by the Bayer Fund, the program provides farmers the opportunity to support and give back to nonprofit organizations they care about in their local communities by enrolling for a chance to direct a $2,500 donation to [read more]
