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OAKLEAF CLINICS ADDS TWO URGENT CARES IN CHIPPEWA VALLEY

OAKLEAF CLINICS ADDS TWO URGENT CARES IN CHIPPEWA VALLEY

CHIPPEWA FALLS OPENS TODAY, MENOMONIE OPENS JUNE 17 EAU CLAIRE, WI – JUNE 10, 2024 –Oakleaf Clinics has added two Urgent Care facilities to help provide additional critical healthcare services for patients in the Chippewa Valley who have lost two Emergency Rooms since...

OAKLEAF CLINICS RICE LAKE CLINIC NOW OPEN

OAKLEAF CLINICS RICE LAKE CLINIC NOW OPEN

Keeps Trusted Local Healthcare Professionals in Rice Lake with Plans to Expand RICE LAKE, WI – May 14, 2024 – Oakleaf Clinics today announced that it is opening a new clinic in Rice Lake with local healthcare providers Bailey Yeager, PA-C and Kaley Wilson, APNP who...

OAKLEAF CLINICS OPENS CORNELL CLINIC MAY 1st

Hires Former Prevea Clinic Providers to Keep Trusted Local Healthcare Team in Cornell CORNELL, WI – May 1, 2024 – Local Cornell Nurse Practitioner, Kelsey Meyer, DNP, APNP, FNP-C and her medical team have joined Oakleaf Clinics, the largest primary care clinic in...

CHIPPEWA VALLEY ORTHOPEDICS AND SPORTS MEDICINE FILES LAWSUIT SEEKING INJUNCTION AGAINST HSHS TO KEEP SACRED HEART AND ST. JOSEPH’S HOSPITALS OPEN UNTIL AT LEAST JULY 21, 2024

Chippewa Valley Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (CVOSM), a leading orthopedic medicine clinic serving Western Wisconsin, today filed an injunction in Eau Claire County Court against HSHS to keep Sacred Heart and St. Joseph’s hospitals in Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls Wisconsin, open and serving patients with critical medical services until at least July 21, 2024.

Old ankle sprains come back to haunt Baby Boomers

An Eau Claire foot and ankle surgeon has a message for Baby Boomers getting back into fitness and sports: Get your ankles checked for chronic instability caused by injuries that might not have healed properly years ago. Brent Fuerbringer, DPM, FACFAS, says many...

Don’t Ignore Flat Feet

Don’t Ignore Flat Feet

What Is Flatfoot? Flatfoot is often a complex disorder, with diverse symptoms and varying degrees of deformity and disability. There are severaltypes of flatfoot, all of which have one characteristic in common: partial or total collapse (loss) of the arch. Other...

Dupuytren’s Disease

Dupuytren’s Disease

What is Dupuytren's Disease? Dupuytren’s (pronounced DOO-Pa-Trins) is a hand deformity caused by an overgrowth of the grizzle layer just underneath the skin, called the fascia (see Figure 1). It is a genetic condition that often runs in families and is more prevalent...

Preventing Throat Cancer

Preventing Throat Cancer

Approximately 54,000 Americans will be diagnosed with mouth and throat cancer this year. That’s almost 150 people a day, and only slightly greater than half will be alive in 5 years. A steady rise in throat cancer is being observed in much younger people without the...

Get the Facts on CBD & Hemp

CBD or Hemp to the Rescue? Chronic pain affects the lives of 50 million US adults, which is roughly 20% of the US population. An article published by the Center for Disease Control in September of 2018 explains how chronic pain leads to an increase in diseases such as...