Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The bodies of the poor and indigent people buried near Froedtert Hospital will be moved at the expense of $1.5 million to $2 million.
If there's no rest for the weary, there certainly won't be any rest for up to 1,300 poor people buried in unmarked graves near Froedtert Hospital. A paupers' cemetery will be moved to make room for Froedtert's expansion, but the move will cost Milwaukee County taxpayers up to $2 million, according to Patch's media partners at WISN 12 News. A state hearing examiner ruled that the county will either have to pay for the graves' removal upfront or Froedtert could subtract the cost from its lease payment to the county, the Journal Sentinel reported. Froedtert Hospital's plans for a new 480,000-square-foot building to house expanded surgical, inpatient and outpatient care is proposed to stand atop what is now a cemetery containing the remains of…
Saturday, April 6, 2013
The hospital is offering free tuberculosis tests to anyone who might have come in contact with the employee.
About 40 patients and 100 workers will be offered free tuberculosis tests after a Froedtert Hospital employee in the Wauwatosa campus tested positive for TB, reported the Associated Press. The employee was diagnosed on March 29 and hospital officials say she is receiving treatment at home and is expected to recover. The hospital posted the following on their website: A case of tuberculosis (TB) recently diagnosed at Froedtert Hospital poses no risk to the general public, staff or to other patients currently receiving care at the hospital. The individual is receiving treatment at home and is expected to fully recover. There is no need for patients to be concerned. Appointments and procedures at the hospital are continuing as scheduled. TB…
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Herman Borghardt, veteran and volunteer, lies somewhere among us. On Veterans Day, a small group of the fervently faithful made sure he was not forgotten and asserted that he should not remain lost.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Across the nation, veterans living and dead were honored Sunday, and multitudes of the graves of those who served were decorated with flags and flowers. In a small, solemn ceremony in Wauwatosa, one soldier who had been forgotten for more than 100 years – and whose exact grave site is still unknown – received prayers, testimonials, a beautiful wreath in the national colors, and an honor guard salute from descendants of those who served with him long ago in America's deadliest war. To the accompaniment of a droning, musical wind, the Gettysburg Address was recited over the place his bones might well lie, read by some from the text, recited by some from memory. At an unmarked potter's field cemetery on Doyne Avenue on the grounds of …
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies are called to Froedtert Hospital after suspect tries to leave, against advice, with a heart monitor still attached, then locks himself in a room.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Joe Petrie
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
While Wauwatosa's Froedtert Hospital was still dealing with not only its usual flood of emergency care as well as dealing with critical patients from a mass shooting, a man disrupted the treatment center for nearly an hour. A 37-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of trying to leave the hospital wearing a $1,200 heart monitor, then barricading himself inside a room. Martavius Bryant was charged Tuesday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of disorderly conduct. If convicted, he faces up to 90 days in jail and $1,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: At 10:24 a.m. Oct. 24, Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies were called to the hospital after staff there reported Bryant was acting disruptive and disorderly. Staff …
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
A Union Army vet who died here as an indigent is somewhere among the burials of the poor near Froedtert. Advocates want to locate him before the hospital digs up remains to allow for a building expansion.
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- Jim Price
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
So far, the whole life of Herman Borghardt is told in but two brief documents, one containing just a paragraph, the other only notations on a single page. The latter is his death certificate. It shows that he had been a farmer, had more recently been living in the City of Milwaukee and may have been a widower. He died an indigent at 77 of a chronic heart condition on Oct. 7, 1898, at Milwaukee County Hospital, and was buried there in the Poor Farm Cemetery. And one other thing: Duly noted by Dr. E.C. Grosskopf, health officer of Wauwatosa Township, Borghardt was a Civil War veteran, enrolled in Company G of the 41st New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The other existing document is the official roster of the 41st New York, which …
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
At least 1,300 indigents buried on hospital grounds could be dug up as part of a building expansion, and sent to UWM for study. It isn't the first time, and a longtime advocate for the remains of the poor is indignant.
OUTSIDE MILWAUKEE, WI -- A proposed expansion of a local hospital will make more room for the living, and better prospects for keeping them alive and in the best health possible. But it will leave much less room for the dead. Froedtert Hospital's plans for a new 480,000-square-foot building to house expanded surgical, inpatient and outpatient care is proposed to stand atop what is now a cemetery containing the remains of at least 1,300 people. They were the poor and indigent of Milwaukee County, who died in its care at the public hospital and the almshouse and were buried on the grounds, dating back well over a century before the practice was halted in 1974. Froedtert’s plan calls for digging up their remains, but not for reinterring them …
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
Hospital and college combine to leap to 12th place on national scorecard of academic medical centers.
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
A scorecard measuring the quality of major academic medical centers across the nation ranks Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin 12th among 101 participating organizations, and represents an 11-place jump over 2011. The ranking is published in the University HealthSystem Consortium’s (UHC) 2012 Quality and Accountability Study which assesses performance across a spectrum of high-priority care dimensions. Based upon the Institute of Medicine’s Aims of Improvement, these include safety, effectiveness, equity, patient-centeredness, timeliness and efficiency. “Quality is at the core of who we are and drives what we do,” said Froedtert Hospital President Cathy Buck. “Our solid ranking among these top academic medical centers is a …
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Wauwatosa officer witnessed crash and stopped to help, but the driver fled and then resisted arrest... and resisted... and resisted.
An off-duty Wauwatosa police officer who witnessed a serious accident called 911 and stopped to help, but ended up wrestling the driver into custody. That 29-year-old Milwaukee man is facing multiple charges, including his third drunken driving offense, after he smashed his car into a light pole, then tried leave the scene and resisted arrest before creating even more havoc at the hospital. Troy Bruce Cesar was charged Saturday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of third-offense operating while intoxicated, one count of bail jumping, one count of obstructing an officer and one count of disorderly conduct. If convicted, he faces up to 33 months in prison and $23,000 in fines. The reason for the bail-jumping charge – he was out…
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Told she can't light up at Froedtert, 27-year-old grabs victim and begins bashing her head against the wall.
A 27-year-old Milwaukee woman is facing charges that she attacked a nurse at Froedtert Hospital after the nurse told her she couldn’t smoke in her room. Danielle P. Latham was charged Sunday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of disorderly conduct. If convicted, she faces up to 90 days in jail and $1,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: Latham was in the hospital Friday when a nurse told her she couldn’t smoke in her room. Latham began yelling profanities at the victim and then charged at her. She grabbed the nurse violently by the hair, then began ramming her head into a wall and the nurses' counter. The victim didn’t suffer visible damage from the attack, but told officers she had soreness as she is recovering…
Monday, July 11, 2011
Air medical transport service hasn't had an accident in its 27 years.
There is a practice at St. Jude the Apostle School in Wauwatosa, which is near the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center. Whenever anyone hears the distinctive sound of a low-flying, twin-turbine helicopter approaching, lessons stop, and students and faculty alike bow their heads and pray. Their prayers go to the person being carried by a Flight for Life aircraft to Froedtert or Children's hospitals, because they know that anyone on such a flight is critically ill or injured. But they also give a thought to the air and medical crew onboard. For 27 years, Flight for Life has been providing emergency medical transport services to the Medical Center and other regional hospitals. The service will likely mark a milestone this month: It is within a …
JustMe
3:52 pm on Wednesday, May 1, 2013
If we don't know who they are, why bother relocating them? i certainly don't want to pay for it. more ›