August 2022

On Friday, New Glarus Police Officer Alex Brey stopped at Small World Daycare and showed the children the squad car and took time to answer the children's questions.

Providing care for a friend or family member can be a rewarding experience but it often provides challenges, too. Over 65 million family caregivers in America provide a vast array of emotional, financial, nursing, homemaking, and other services on a daily or on an intermittent basis, and often find themselves struggling to meet the needs of both their loved one and themselves.

The Wisconsin Wins (WI Wins) program, a state-level initiative aimed to decrease youth access to tobacco products, and the Southwest Alliance for Tobacco Prevention (SWATP) would like to say CONGRATULATIONS to the many clerks and retailers of Green County for your great work on reducing tobacco access to minors. Recently, youth volunteers have conducted tobacco compliance checks in hopes to see retailers are not selling tobacco to minors and are checking IDs. In 2022, out of the 26 compliance checks, there was only four sales to minors.

A new report published by Becker’s Hospital Review has shared that SSM Health Monroe Hospital has again achieved Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) overall 5-Star Rating for the eighth time.
This honor puts SSM Health Monroe Hospital as part of elite group of healthcare providers. Only 429 hospitals nationwide received a 5-Star rating in 2022.