The NAACP is pleased to partner with St. Mary’s – Columbia, the Milwaukee Health Department Well Women Program and Sandford Brown Medical Assistant Program, to provide breast cancer community education and screening in minority communities. The event will be October 8, 2011 from 8:00am – 12:00pm at the Milwaukee office of the NAACP, located on [...]

PHOTO OF THE WEEK The Milwaukee Bucks mascot Bango joined the City of Milwaukee Health Department’s 11th Annual Back-to-School Family Health Fair last Friday, Aug. 19 as part of Milwaukee Child Health Week. Children and their parents were informed with a lot of information needed in preparing for school. The event was held at North [...]

Last Sunday, the Milwaukee Bucks, in partnership with Columbia St. Mary’s, hosted the 18th annual Bucks Wives Save Lives silent auction at the Bradley Center. This year, the auction raised $20,113.63 for the Milwaukee Breast & Cervical Cancer Awareness Program. In 18 years, the auction has raised more than $240,000 for the cause. This year, [...]

Improving access to and the quality of women’s healthcare, screening and treating pregnant women for infections and chronic medical conditions, and helping women and their families quit smoking are three key steps to help reduce infant mortality rates in Milwaukee, according to a comprehensive report released this week by the City of Milwaukee Health Department [...]

By Lynda Jones, Editor Mayor Tom Barrett and Commissioner of Health Bevan K. Baker unveiled additional hard-hitting safe sleep campaign messages aimed to prevent further infant deaths in Milwaukee. After two reports last week of infants who died after sleeping in an unsafe sleep environment, Barrett and Baker held a news conference to announce the [...]

By Bevan K. Baker, Milwaukee Health Commissioner Last spring – well outside what’s commonly referred to as “flu season” – residents were inundated with reports of a new virus that was rapidly spreading through communities across the country. Reports of illness poured in from all over Milwaukee, some schools were closed and everyone waited nervously [...]

By Milwaukee Health Commissioner Bevan K. Baker Influenza (“flu”) is a serious disease for everyone, but this year’s H1N1 influenza – commonly referred to as “swine flu” – turns out to be especially serious for our African- American, Hispanic, and Native American communities. Last month, the Wisconsin State Division of Public Health released data showing [...]

Next Door Foundation announces On Saturday, February 13, 2010 the Next Door Foundation will be partnering with CHIMC (Community Health Improvement for Milwaukee’s Children) and Students from the Medical College of Wisconsin to host a Community Winter Health Fair. The Health Fair will take place at Next Door Foundation, located at 2545 North 29th Street [...]

By Anna C. Benton, director Family and Community Health Services City of Milwaukee Health Department For the past decade, an average of 23 Milwaukee infants each year have died while sleeping unsafely. To address this issue, the City of Milwaukee Health Department recently launched a “safe sleep” campaign to prevent deaths related to bed-sharing in [...]