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Friday, January 4, 2013

Mayfair Lane Closings Begin First Major Phase of Zoo Interchange Work

Closures this week at Watertown Plank Road and south for utility work are percursor to full reconstruction planned to begin in March, DOT says.

If you think you've seen a lot of detours and closings already, get set. You're about to get the first taste of the real deal – six years, or perhaps eight or nine, of the eye-popping Zoo Interchange Reconstruction Project. In preparation for major reconstruction that will begin in March and continue through next summer, a stretch of Mayfair Road will go down to one lane in each direction for part of the coming week, with more lane closures to follow, a Wisconsin Department of Transportation official says. Ryan Luck of the DOT, in an interview Friday morning with Patch's partners at Fox 6 News, said that one lane each way had already been closed and that only one lane in each direction would be open from Monday through Wednesday in the …

Steve Rolefson

3:38 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013

Its got to be done. It will suck. Results will be great! 3 lanes each way is not enough. I go threw it every night south bound and it is horable. It takes me 1 hour to go from Butler Wi. To the air port in Milwaukee.   more ›

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Froedtert, Medical College Jump in National Ranking

Hospital and college combine to leap to 12th place on national scorecard of academic medical centers.

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 …

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