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Help Wanted: Community Health Survey

About 400 South Milwaukee residents are being be asked to take part in a community health survey, our Health Department reports.

From the press release:

The South Milwaukee Health Department, Aurora Health Care, Froedtert Health, Children’s Hospital and Health System, Columbia St. Mary’s, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, and the Center for Urban Population Health Research are working in partnership to conduct a community health survey. The effort will supplement a prior community health assessment conducted three years earlier with updated data and the ability to analyze trends over time.

The survey will provide valuable data for continued evaluation of community needs and help guide government, not-for-profit, and volunteer organizations as they fashion services to meet the most pressing needs of the community. It will be conducted between now and mid -October.

About 400 area residents will be interviewed by telephone.

“I would encourage all residents of South Milwaukee to help us with this research,” said Jacqueline Ove, City of South Milwaukee Public Health Administrator, “If you are among those who receive a phone call, please take the time to answer the survey questions.”

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Wheaton Plans Expansion Of Franklin Complex And More Headlines

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare is planning a $49 million expansion of its facility on south 27th Street in Franklin, including erecting a 65,000 square-foot medical office building and other additions that will push the size of the hospital from 32 to 52 beds.

Check out stories in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Oak Creek Patch.

And check out these headlines from around the South Shore:

And the Journal Sentinel, in an editorial, praises County Supervisor Pat Jursik for her work in moving along a proposal for a development in the Park East district that appeared stalled in committee.

Also, state Sen. Chris Larson has published a new Larson Report, with the headline “Tides of Change Reach Wisconsin.”

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