Mayo’s La Crosse hospital provided more charity care than Gundersen’s in 2019. Overall, the amount of uncompensated care provided by Wisconsin hospitals rose significantly last year.
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City Delays Proposed $1.1 Million Payment to Weber Group
The council on Thursday approved a delay in an incentive payment to two Weber companies due to the impact of the downturn on plans to redevelop the CenturyLink building.
Gundersen, Mayo Charge Double Cost of Care
Gundersen charges an average of $251 for every $100 of its costs, while Mayo charges $215, according to a new study. Both figures come before the latest round of prices increases at the two hospitals.
Homelessness: “We Have Everything We Need to Shelter Everyone”
More than 30 people were asked to leave a motel that was being rented for the homeless on Nov. 1. A week later, one of them died in a storage unit he’d moved into.
“I Didn’t Come Here on a Death Sentence”: COVID-19 Comes To Wisconsin’s Prisons
Inmates say they face awful conditions as COVID-19 sweeps through Wisconsin’s prisons. The response from the DOC and Gov. Tony Evers has been alarmingly inadequate.
Twenty-Two Moms Join Group To Protest Family Court System
The moms are deeply frustrated with the response they’ve received from county and state officials.
VARC paid CEO $1.5 million in bonuses, deferred compensation
VARC’s former CEO Anthony Ugo was paid over $1 million in 2016 by the charity, which employs workers with disabilities on subminimum wages.
If You Build it They Will Come
Why does Vernon County need a 128-bed jail that costs $1.8 million a year to run and is largely used to house inmates from the Milwaukee area?
ORC: Employees with disabilities were paid less than $1 an hour
61 workers with disabilities at ORC were being paid subminimum wages as of Jan. 1.
Trouble at the co-op
The firing of three long-time employees at the co-op sparked a backlash and hints at deeper problems inside the organization.