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May 29, 2020, Posted by AHW Endowment
It was late February when positive cases of the coronavirus were first reported at Life Care Center, a nursing home in Kirkland, Wash. In the days that followed, news headlines highlighted the rapid increase in individuals who became infected — and the resulting deaths.
The outbreak was a significant point in United States’ entrance into the fight against COVID-19, and gave Americans a real-time look at something that epidemiologists like the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Dr. Silvia Munoz-Price already knew: That facilities such as nursing homes are extremely vulnerable to the spread of infections.
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Categories- Population & Community Health
- Project Profiles
May 27, 2020, Posted by AHW Endowment
The Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment is proud to announce that AHW Program Director Christina Ellis has been elected to serve on the Wisconsin Philanthropy Network Board of Directors.
WPN, the state’s premier professional membership association for grantmakers, brings professional development, networking, and research services to grantmaking organizations that together contribute more than $600 million to communities across Wisconsin and represent more than $7 billion in assets.
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Categories- AHW News & Announcements
- AHW Staff
April 30, 2020, Posted by AHW Endowment
As COVID-19 has spread around the globe, new guidance, updated data, and the latest news stories have become a constant on TV, in our email inboxes, and across social media.
In any native language, trying to absorb it all is overwhelming. Now imagine trying to swim through the ocean of information in your second language, or one that you don’t speak or read at all. It’s nothing short of impossible.
Yet it’s the exact challenge facing many of Wisconsin’s Hmong residents today – and the focus of an AHW-funded response being led by the Hmong American Friendship Association (HAFA).
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Categories- Population & Community Health
- Project Profiles
April 28, 2020, Posted by AHW Endowment
The Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment is proud to announce that AHW Director Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, has been named a Notable LGBTQ Executive by BizTimes Milwaukee.
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Categories- AHW News & Announcements
- AHW Staff
April 24, 2020, Posted by AHW Endowment
Monday was a day like so many others I have had in my career as a physician — and yet quite peculiar. As usual, I woke up at 5 a.m. — kissed my son, husband, and pooch goodbye and drove to the hospital to care for a dozen patients needing surgery, as I am an anesthesiologist. But driving into work there was no traffic. On arrival at the hospital, the parking lot was only half full and everyone walking in wore a mask. As I left my car and approached my office suite, the front walkway had been decorated by community members, with colorful sidewalk chalk messages of support for our work to care for those in need.
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