Notable Heroes in Health Care: Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers
1032 S. Cesar E. Chavez Drive, Milwaukee
Dec 16, 2020 3:57 pm
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Just one week after COVID-19 hit the Milwaukee region, Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers began offering drive-through testing and quickly opened two additional sites. Since March, Sixteenth Street has tested more than 15,400 people for COVID-19. Approximately 30% of those tests came back positive.
Sixteenth Street serves the south side of Milwaukee and Waukesha from 12 clinic locations in the region including: four full-service clinics, a behavioral health clinic, a satellite geriatric clinic and six in-school clinics.
Notable Heroes in Health Care: Danny Walrath
RN, Waukesha Memorial Hospital
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Danny Walrath works in the Waukesha Memorial Hospital cardiac care unit with COVID patients. He has a gentle, compassionate demeanor and positive attitude always concerned about his patients comfort and well-being. He also frequently assumes a mentoring role with less experienced nurses.
Walrath has received a Nurse Excellence Award as an educator and mentor from Aurora Health Care. He has great communication skills with his patients. He especially enjoys sharpening his Spanish skills with Hispanic patients. Whenever possible, he makes a point of keeping the family of his patients in the communication loop.
Notable Heroes in Health Care: Danielle Cervantes
Registered nurse, Advocate Aurora Health
Dec 16, 2020 11:05 am
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“From Green Bay to Park Ridge, we are one,” said Danielle Cervantes, registered nurse for Advocate Aurora Health who answered the call for nurses to help out during the COVID-19 surge in Green Bay.
When the staffing effectiveness team at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois asked a pool of float nurses to relieve staffing needs at Aurora BayCare Medical Center, the response was overwhelming.
Cervantes was one of many Illinois-based Advocate Aurora Health nurses who stepped up to help.
Notable Heroes in Health Care: Kyle Bellaire
Cardiology LPN, Advocate Aurora Health
Dec 16, 2020 12:34 pm
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In times of crisis, some people are drawn to service. For Kyle Bellaire, his desire to help others took him to the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S.
Bellaire, 25, joined Aurora at the beginning of 2020 as a cardiology LPN at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee. However, his journey to the front lines started before that. A Racine native, Bellaire also serves in the U.S. Army Reserves 945th FRST, or Forward Resuscitative Surgical Team.
Notable Heroes in Health Care: Jennifer Thiede
Emergency room nurse, Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital
Dec 16, 2020 10:46 am
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March 12, 2020 is a day Ted Klumb will never forget.
Klumb, an agent at First Weber Realtors, arrived at Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital feeling dizzy and numb. While checking in, Jennifer Thiede, an emergency department nurse, immediately recognized his symptoms and knew he needed immediate care.
Her voice yelling for a bed is the last thing he remembers.
Klumb underwent a 12-hour operation for an aortic dissection and survived.
In addition to spending the last 10 months caring for COVID-19 patients, doctors and nurses throughout the region have also been caring for patients suffering trauma, heart attacks, cancer diagnosis and other illnesses.