Green Bay Development News

[Tower Park]

Photo by WLUK from this morning's news conference at City Hall. http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/...g-to-green-bay

[Tower Park]

Medical College to Begin Development Phase for Green Bay, Central Wisconsin Campuses
Office of Public Affairs
Medical College of Wisconsin
Monday, June 25, 2012

The Medical College of Wisconsin’s (MCW) Board of Trustees has authorized MCW’s leadership to enter into the development phase of establishing two community-based medical education campuses in Wisconsin. Sites selected for development are Green Bay and Central Wisconsin with a goal of admitting the first group of medical students to the new campuses as early as the summer of 2015. The Trustees identified milestones that must be achieved before student recruitment will begin on the selected campuses.

Milestones to be achieved are relevant to accreditation, funding, faculty recruitment and development, formalized agreements with local health care systems and academic institutions, MCW faculty approvals, and the creation of local residency programs.

MCW is launching the community-based medical education initiative to address the shortage of physicians and other health care providers in Wisconsin, especially in underserved rural and urban areas.

“The Medical College of Wisconsin is committed to developing community-based medical education programs that mirror the quality and success of the Medical College of Wisconsin’s medical education program in Milwaukee,” said Edward J. Zore, Chairman of the MCW’s Board of Trustees. “We believe the milestones identified in the development phase will ensure our partner communities, health care systems and academic institutions that this investment in expanded medical education will result in a steady supply of physicians to meet each region’s future needs.”

John R. Raymond, Sr., MD, MCW President and CEO, said, “Factors that led to our determination that Central Wisconsin and Green Bay are appropriate sites for the development of plans for a community-based medical education program are: strong health systems with outstanding physicians and established programs for student-focused clinical experiences, quality academic institutions with a scientific program infrastructure, and civic and business engagement and enthusiastic support. These communities also expressed a strong readiness to proceed.”

Dr. Raymond added, “The Medical College of Wisconsin is committed to developing multiple community-based medical education sites throughout Wisconsin. In addition to Green Bay and Central Wisconsin, we received enthusiastic responses from several other communities who want to be considered at a later date. We will continue to engage in discussions with communities across the state with the hope that other sites could be developed. We will continue discussions with potential partners in multiple regions of Wisconsin; no sites have been ruled out.”

Regional health systems, academic institutions and civic and business leaders in Central Wisconsin and Green Bay will partner with MCW in the development phase. Dr. Raymond said, “Our shared goal is to partner in developing Medical College of Wisconsin medical school campuses that reflect the community’s values and address community needs.”

Green Bay academic and health care institutions involved to-date in the discussions are (in alpha order): Aurora BayCare Medical Center, Bellin College, Bellin Health, Hospital Sisters Health System – Northeast Division, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Prevea Health, St. Norbert College, and the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay.

In addition, MCW has engaged the following Central Wisconsin health care and academic institutions to-date in discussions (in alpha order): Aspirus Health System, Marshfield Clinic, Mid-State Technical College, Ministry Health Care, Nicolet College, Northcentral Technical College, Riverview Hospital, University of Wisconsin – Marathon County, University of Wisconsin– Marshfield/Wood County, and the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point.

A next step in the development phase will be to engage physician practices, county medical societies, and academic and health system leaders in the planning of the two community-based medical education campuses.

“We believe that there is a rich pool of potential Wisconsin-based medical school applicants for our community-based medical education program,” said Joseph E. Kerschner, MD, Dean of the Medical School and Executive Vice President of the Medical College of Wisconsin. “On average, 625 Wisconsin residents apply annually to MCW’s medical education program. A substantial number of these applicants reside in underserved rural or urban areas of the state.”

“The Medical College of Wisconsin has had ongoing discussions about our community-based medical education initiative with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health,” Dr. Kerschner said. “We share a commitment to coordinate statewide medical education outreach programs and explore opportunities for collaborative efforts.”

The initial plans to be reviewed in the development phase call for an immersive model in which students will receive their medical school education in either Central Wisconsin or Green Bay. Students will have the opportunity to take elective courses at MCW’s Milwaukee campus or at other campuses.

The first class of medical students at both campuses will target a minimum of 15 students per class. In subsequent years, the class size will target 25 students per class. The class size could increase in the future if determined by community needs and resources.

"Our vision is to develop a curriculum that reduces student debt and places students in residency programs earlier,” said Dr. Kerschner. “This will lessen the financial debt burden for medical students and hopefully enable more students to pursue careers in primary care. Debt burden prevents many medical students from considering careers in the traditionally lower-paying primary care fields."

One of the key drivers of the success of the programs on each campus is the commitment of regional health systems to create residency programs. The development phase will identify the capacity of Central Wisconsin and Green Bay health systems to support new residency training positions.

Research has shown that the best determinant of where physicians will ultimately practice is tied to where they do their residency training. According to the Wisconsin Hospital Association’s 2011 report “100 New Physicians a Year: An Imperative for Wisconsin,” over 75 percent of Wisconsin citizens who receive both their medical education and residency training in Wisconsin remain in the state to establish their practices.

The cost to develop the two community-based medical education campuses in Green Bay and Central Wisconsin is approximately $23 million. MCW has approved a $4 million grant from the education component of its Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin endowment to jump-start the development phase. MCW expects to work with the communities to raise substantial funding support so that the first group of medical students can begin their studies on the new campuses as early as July 2015.

To keep costs manageable, both the Central Wisconsin and Green Bay campuses will use a modest amount of existing space for academic and administrative needs. MCW will initially create a small number of positions on each campus to support medical school programs. Most of the programmatic and administrative needs will be handled by existing staff at MCW and by Green Bay and Central Wisconsin academic and health system partners.

Plans call for the curriculum to teach “Triple Aim” core competencies: improving the patient experience (including quality and satisfaction); improving the health of populations; and, reducing the per capita cost of health care.

The curricular development also will include a focus on opportunities for interprofessional learning with other health sciences programs such as physician assistants, pharmacy, nursing, or dentistry to emphasize a team-based model of care, and leverage distance learning techniques.

http://www.mcw.edu/Releases/2012-Rel...m#.T-iICXDlEfo

This may be my last breaking news item posted on this subject today. Certainly there'll be additional coverage elsewhere today.

[Kwaigai]

Awesome!! is the development going to be downtown or near some hospital around town?

[gbmphillips]

[Tower Park]

No decision has been made on where the college will be located other than the Green Bay area. At least initially, its administrative office might be in an existing building.

Lots of good new reporting on today's announcement.
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/...nclick_check=1
http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/...g-to-green-bay
http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/...s-for-students
http://wearegreenbay.com/1fulltext-news?nxd_id=138402
http://www.wbay.com/story/18873921/2...hool-expansion
http://www.jsonline.com/business/med...160243035.html
http://www.nbc26.com/news/local/160299225.html



City of Green Bay photo.

[gbmphillips]

I think it would make sense to have them located near the hospitals they are going to be working with. Makes little sense to have this downtown.

[GBguy23]

In my opinion it would make sense to have it located downtown. If they are going to be working with all those places downtown would be the best option seeing that all the locations are scattered around the city. They need to be centrally located I think.

[jerkylips999]

Originally Posted by gbmphillips

I think it would make sense to have them located near the hospitals they are going to be working with. Makes little sense to have this downtown.

Actually, I think it makes a lot of sense to be located downtown. With the exception of Aurora, downtown is pretty centrally located between the hospitals. Assuming that there will be some non-GB residents, I think they would want the school close to housing, restaurants, etc. With the direction downtown is moving, I think a lot more of these things will be in place.

I don't think there's much in the way of rental property near St Vincents/Bellin (as far as I know), and locating out by Aurora would require more significant driving to any facility except Aurora. I really can't think of a place that makes more sense than downtown.

On a somewhat related note, I was out in Bellevue not too long ago & saw for the first time where Bellin College is located. I had no idea it was so far out in the middle of nowhere. That seems like a puzzling location to me.

[gbmphillips]

I think near St Marys hospital would be a good location, there is office space already available in that area, housing, restaurants all centrally located. As for the Bellin site, Bellevue is working on making that area the heart of Bellevue they will continue to promote and develop that area.

[GBSurveyor]

Originally Posted by jerkylips999

On a somewhat related note, I was out in Bellevue not too long ago & saw for the first time where Bellin College is located. I had no idea it was so far out in the middle of nowhere. That seems like a puzzling location to me.

The lure of cheap land and surface parking is often selected without any consideration of the consequences of transportation. btw - There is also a nice Bellin clinic/health center and YMCA in that area that is exclusive to any one privileged enough to own a car. At least the local municipalities are able to expand the infrastructure and grow the taxes.

[gbmphillips]

Originally Posted by GBSurveyor

The lure of cheap land and surface parking is often selected without any consideration of the consequences of transportation. btw - There is also a nice Bellin clinic/health center and YMCA in that area that is exclusive to any one privileged enough to own a car. At least the local municipalities are able to expand the infrastructure and grow the taxes.

its a person choice if they want to own or not own a car. If they want to isolate themselves its a choice

[Green Bay 4 Life]

A downtown location is a stupid idea for the meidcal college at this point. Let us not forget that this is a college and they need classrooms, science labs, medical related labs, and other resources that currently other facilities in this area already offer (I.e St. Norbert, UWGB, Bellin College, NWTC). The first run of students is going to be 15, and then raise to 25. We are not talking about a huge need for building for possibly even 10 years. If they are just trying to get their feet wet and fill a small niche and keep tuition down - it would make sense for them to negotiate space at one of the existing college's where these things they need are likely already in place.

[GBSurveyor]

Originally Posted by Green Bay 4 Life

A downtown location is a stupid idea for the meidcal college at this point. Let us not forget that this is a college and they need classrooms, science labs, medical related labs, and other resources that currently other facilities in this area already offer (I.e St. Norbert, UWGB, Bellin College, NWTC). The first run of students is going to be 15, and then raise to 25. We are not talking about a huge need for building for possibly even 10 years. If they are just trying to get their feet wet and fill a small niche and keep tuition down - it would make sense for them to negotiate space at one of the existing college's where these things they need are likely already in place.

I was under the assumption that this was going to be the plan. Why else would you even partner up if you were not going to share resources. Another good space would seem to be the space where the Bellin College location was located adjacent to the hospital.

[GBSurveyor]

Originally Posted by gbmphillips

its a person choice if they want to own or not own a car. If they want to isolate themselves its a choice

Maybe this is just me being selfish. I sure would like the option to not be required to own my own vehicle and waste a good chunk of my money on transportation to get places I need to go. When I am old, like maybe 50 or so, I sure hope I wont be forced to drive to the doctor or woodmans, I just don't like roundabouts...

[Tower Park]

OBI's handsome new website look went up yesterday (Tuesday). Some images from it. The photo of the upper storefronts shows what part of the Broadway District looked like years ago. The website is donated by Green Bay Net, located at 124 S. Broadway. http://www.onbroadway.org/

[Tower Park]

Fox River. Police say the car found in about 18 feet of water in the Fox River last week off CityDeck at the end of Cherry Street was stolen in Green Bay in 1979. It was a 1975 Plymouth Valiant with Minnesota license plates. The car belonged to Paul Renard, then 27, who had left it running outside the old Duck Duck Goose nightclub on N. Clay Street on March 10, 1979. When he came out of the bar, the car was gone. Police say whoever stole the vehicle put its transmission in drive and used a tire iron to hold down the gas pedal to dump the car into the river. A marine contractor for the Fox River PCB cleanup project found the vehicle last Friday while using sonar to measure river depths. Renard, the car’s owner, died last June of exposure after a sailing accident on the bay of Green Bay. Press-Gazette photos show the retrieval effort off CityDeck on Tuesday and the car being brought ashore at the Metro Boat Launch. http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/...text|FRONTPAGE





Downtown. All 36 ash trees on the Wisconsin Public Service Corp. property downtown were removed Monday because of the emerald ash borer infestation there. There’s been a series of discoveries of the beetle this month in eastern and southern Wisconsin. Map is from the Journal Sentinel. The first image below — taken before the tree removal on Monday and showing Canadian geese on the WPS property — is from WFRV. The second image is from WBAY. http://www.jsonline.com/news/wiscons...160462815.html and http://wearegreenbay.com/fulltext?nxd_id=138282 and http://www.wbay.com/story/18876836/2...rald-ash-borer





CityDeck. DGBI photos from the first Associated Bank’s Fridays on the Fox last week. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3118594&type=3





Downtown. Membership in New Leaf Market is now up to 570 toward its goal of 600. Its 2nd Annual Member-Owner Meeting is tonight (Wednesday) from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (meeting starts at 6) at the UW Extension Office, 1150 Bellevue St. From the newest edition of What’s Up Downtown. http://campaignbox.imagedistillery.c...359EC0425C0#fr and http://newleafmarket.org/




Broadway District. Next up on The Urban Diner — the Greek Salad at Parisi's Delicatessen. Carr Valley Goat Feta cheese with olive oil, oregano, olives, red onions, red peppers and field greens tossed with a lemon vinaigrette. http://theurbandinergb.blogspot.com/...and-light.html

Press-Gazette. Details on the Press-Gazette’s new access and subscription policies from WLUK. For every 30 days, people will be restricted to ten free articles on each of Gannett Wisconsin’s newspaper websites. Unlimited access to each site will cost $12 per month. Home delivery subscribers will have unlimited access, but their monthly price is changing. Seven-day delivery was about $17 per month; it will now cost $22 or $24, depending on payment type. Gannett has already rolled out similar plans to about half of its 80 U.S. markets. Since then, Gannett reports its circulation volume has been down 5% on Sundays and 7% on weekdays. However, executives expect the new subscription models to provide $100 million in additional revenue starting next year. “This community is still very much ink on paper and likes that print,” says Press-Gazette Publisher Kevin Corrado. Obituaries and the classified section will still have free access. Subscribers’ rates won't change until their next billing cycle. http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/...art-online-fee

Green Bay. The big 2012 Bassmaster Elite Series professional fishing tournament begins Thursday and continues through Sunday. It’s headquartered at the Metro Boat Launch. http://www.wisconsinoutdoorfun.com/a...0204/306270140

[mgk920]

Unfortunately, as was found out when the Dutch Elm Disease fungus swept through Wisconsin a few decades ago, removing infected trees did nothing to slow down the infestation.

IMHO, the only way to control these emerald ash borer bugs effectively is to import their natural predators from the 'old' country, like was done to stop the purple loosestrife problem of a decade or two ago. Once a couple of old-world predator insect species that go nom nom nom nom nom on loosestrife while turning up their noses at everything else were introduced, these plants, which were literally carpeting swamps and wetlands statewide with purple, disappeared very quickly.

I recall a year or two ago that there were promising tests being performed on a couple of old-world species of stingless wasps that similarly naturally feed on ash borer larva while turning their noses up at everything else. How is this coming along?

Mike

[Bay2Bay]

Although this article is written about larger cities than Green Bay, it points out interesting reasons the trend has developed in this country for the desire to live an urban lifestyle.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/B...bs-3668600.php

[Bay2Bay]

Here is the link to the US Census Bureau page that has the spread sheets showing population change in US cities between April 1, 2010 and July 1, 2011. Green Bay's population estimate is up 1.7% -- from 104,057 to 105,809.

http://www.census.gov/popest/data/ci...011/index.html

[Tower Park]

Downtown. New Leaf Market plans to announce publicly this fall a multimillion-dollar campaign for a co-op grocery store downtown. Money raised will fund buying a site, building or remodeling, staffing, inventory and other costs associated with opening the market. Not quite ready to announce its preferred site, New Leaf says the store will be located in the Downtown, Olde Main Street or Broadway district areas. The store would open in a year or two; New Leaf expects to have more than 1,000 members by then. From last night's New Leaf membership meeting. Photo from New Leaf's website is an example of what a Green Bay co-op could look like. http://newleafmarket.org/



Fox River & Bay. A couple of photos from the opening this morning of the 2012 Bassmaster Elite Series professional fishing tournament headquartered at the Metro Boat Launch. Most of the nearly 100 fishermen headed north into the bay to fish closer to Sturgeon Bay, but a few went upriver to the area of the De Pere Dam. First photo from the Bassmaster Elite Series; second photo from the City of Green Bay. http://www.bassmaster.com/elite





Plus . . . Lambeau Field. Construction on the Lambeau Field expansion and renovation project is about 40 percent complete. North end-zone work is nearly done; it includes a new roof-top viewing platform, scoreboard and gate. Construction continues on the south, including 6,700 additional seats. http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/...f-construction