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Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers

WEBSixteenth Street Community Health Centers (SSCHC) have provided free and affordable health care services to low-income patients since 1969. That year, neighborhood …

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Milwaukee County General Hospital

WEBFor over 130 years, Milwaukee County provided health care at the county grounds in Wauwatosa.What began as poor relief for the area’s growing population in the …

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Health Care Delivery

WEBAccording to Milwaukee Health Department data, in the years 1870-1920, nine hundred local women identified themselves as midwives. Another source of health-care provision …

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Christian Scientists

WEBMary Baker Eddy, the founder and discoverer of Christian Science, published her landmark book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, in 1875. Four years later, Eddy …

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Froedtert Hospital

WEBA latecomer to Milwaukee’s health care scene, Froedtert Hospital, a private, non-profit entity, eventually supplanted cash-strapped County General Hospital in Wauwatosa. In …

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Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital

WEBColumbia St. Mary’s is really the history of two institutions: the Catholic St. Mary’s, Wisconsin’s first hospital, and Columbia, a non-sectarian hospital focused on research …

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Medical College of Wisconsin

WEBThe Medical College of Wisconsin has its origins in private, for-profit Milwaukee medical colleges that opened in the late 1800s. One of these enterprises, the Milwaukee Medical …

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Alternative Medicine

WEBBy the 1990s, alternative medicine had gained a level of acceptance never before seen in Milwaukee. In 1995, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article reported that since 1985, the …

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Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center

WEBThe Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center is the direct descendant of the Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS), established by …

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Native Milwaukee

WEBBetween 1765 and 1776, the fur trade reemerged as the defining feature of southeastern Wisconsin, and as fur-bearing animals migrated south during the late eighteenth …

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Milwaukee County Institutions

WEBThe Milwaukee County Institutions are a collection of programs, facilities, and complexes that have met a wide variety of county health and quality of life needs. Beginning in …

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Johnston Emergency Hospital

WEBJohnston Emergency Hospital, established by the city of Milwaukee, opened in its permanent location on the corner of Third and Sycamore (now Michigan) Street in 1894. …

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Evangelical Deaconess Hospital

WEBIn 1909, the synod of the Evangelical Church, a predecessor of the United Church of Christ, founded a Deaconess Society in the German tradition that called on Christian Sisters to …

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