Much Needed Urgent Care Clinic Now Open at Mall Drive Location EAU CLAIRE, WI – November 12, 2024 – Oakleaf Clinics has opened its third Urgent Care practice on the south side of Eau Claire to provide critical healthcare services for patients who need immediate care...
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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 AND FOOT & ANKLE CLINIC PURCHASE PREVEA MENOMONIE CLINIC; EXPAND SERVICES AND KEEP LONG-TIME PROVIDERS IN PLACE FOR THE COMMUNITY
MENOMONIE, WI – May 14, 2024 – OakLeaf Medical Network members Oakleaf Clinics and Foot & Ankle Clinic will share the former Prevea medical clinic building they purchased together from HSHS. The new clinics are located at 2919 Stout Rd, Menomonie, Wisconsin 54751....
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 ONCOLOGY SERVICES TO PROVIDE MUCH NEEDED CANCER SURVEILLANCE CARE AND SCREENING SERVICES
Hires Core Cancer Surveillance Team from Prevea Cancer Center at Sacred Heart to Keep Trusted Team Together to Serve Over 500 Local Cancer Survivor Patients EAU CLAIRE, WI – May 8, 2024 –To fill the large cancer care gap left by the HSHS/Prevea closures in Western...
OAKLEAF CLINICS LADYSMITH OPENS MAY 1st WITH FORMER PREVEA PROVIDERS
Rusk County Purchases Clinic Facility and Leases to OakLeaf Clinics to Keep Area Access to Community Healthcare in Place to Serve Rusk County LADYSMITH, WI – May 1, 2024 – Local Ladysmith, WI physicians Joel DeKrey, DO, Samantha Runstrom, MD and Amanda Crabb, NP, and...
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...
April 1 marks opening of Spears Pain & Rehab in Eau Claire
Meeting an urgent and unprecedented need in the Chippewa Valley Eau Claire, Wis. – April 1 marks the first day of patient care at the newly constructed Spears Pain & Rehab in Eau Claire. The clinic opening means more access to services for patients who may have...
OAKLEAF CLINICS EXPANDS ACROSS WESTERN WISCONSIN TO FILL CRITICAL HEALTHCARE GAPS LEFT BY HSHS/PREVEA EXIT
Hires Physicians and Providers to Open New Clinics in Cornell, Ladysmith, Menomonie, and Rice Lake; Adds New Physicians in Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire EAU CLAIRE, WI – March 28, 2024 – In a rapid move to ensure that patients in Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, and Rusk...
OakLeaf Medical Network Statement Regarding Formation of Chippewa Valley Health Cooperative
March 5, 2024 “Today the Chippewa Valley Health Cooperative announced that it has been formed by seven Chippewa Valley business and community leaders concerned about the access to and cost of healthcare with the HSHS announcement that is closing its hospitals and...
OAKLEAF MEDICAL NETWORK CONTINUES TO EXPAND CAPACITY TO HELP FILL URGENT HEALTHCARE NEED IN CHIPPEWA VALLEY
More Services, Hours, and Availability Added to Fill Gaps Emerging from HSHS Exit from Western Wisconsin EAU CLAIRE, WI – February 22, 2024 – OakLeaf Medical Network, the largest independent physician association in Western Wisconsin caring for over 33,000 primary...
OakLeaf Medical Network Updates Western Wisconsin Action Response Plan
OakLeaf Medical Network Western Wisconsin Action Response Plan Updated February 22, 2024 OakLeaf Medical Network (OLMN) in Action: OakLeaf Medical Network physicians initiated a response to the Health Care Crisis in the Chippewa Valley on 1/23/2024. We continue to...
Nystrom Behavioral Health Dedicates Phone Line to HSHS and Prevea Patients
With all the changes with Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) and Prevea Health, Nystrom & Associates wanted to let you know that they are here to help. They have created a separate phone line just for patients impacted by these closures for easy access to our...
OakLeaf Medical Network Answers Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions About the Impact of HSHS Closure in the Chippewa Valley As of February 9, 2024; We will update this periodically. Who is OakLeaf Medical Network? OakLeaf Medical Network is the largest independent physician association in Western Wisconsin,...
OakLeaf Medical Network Welcomes News That MCC Is Expanding Labor & Delivery
February 9, 2024 “OakLeaf Medical Network welcomes the news that Marshfield Medical Center – Eau Claire is increasing its labor and delivery beds to help close the gap that will be left when HSHS closes Sacred Heart and St. Joseph’s hospitals. OakLeaf Medical Network...
OAKLEAF MEDICAL NETWORK MOVES FORWARD TO CREATE INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY HOSPITAL IN CHIPPEWA VALLEY
-Hires Expert Mike Sanders To Lead Planning Effort- EAU CLAIRE, WI – February 9, 2024 – OakLeaf Medical Network, the largest independent physician association in Western Wisconsin caring for over 30,000 primary care patients, today announced that it has hired Mike...
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.
OakLeaf Medical Network Working To Help Solve The Healthcare Crisis in Western Wisconsin
EAU CLAIRE, WI – Feb 1, 2024 – OakLeaf Medical Network, the largest independent physician association in Western Wisconsin caring for over 30,000 primary care patients, today confirmed that its 300+ medical providers are working together and with community leaders to...
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
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
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
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...