Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Ascension Health and Columbia St. Mary’s Health System ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Leo P. Brideau is the new president and CEO of Columbia-St.

The state of Wisconsin should consider a limited form of outside review for health care systems' plans to build new hospitals, basing the approval on determining there is a public need for the ...

A Milwaukee business leader is calling for a change in state law to require hospitals to prove "community need" before qualifying for tax-exempt bonds to finance new construction. Leo Brideau, ...

Leo Brideau, president and CEO of Milwaukee-based Columbia St. Mary’s Health System, has accepted a senior position at St. Louis-based Ascension Health, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...

Columbia St. Mary's, Inc. Columbia St. Mary's, Inc. Hospital/Nursing ManagementHealth Services Columbia St. Mary's, sponsored by Ascension Health and Columbia Health Systems, is an organization ...

In February, Ascension Health, the largest U.S. Roman Catholic health system, and Oak Hill Capital Partners, a private equity firm, announced plans to buy Catholic hospitals before someone without the ...

As Catholic health care systems struggle to survive in a competitive industry, some leaders of the traditionally nonprofit organizations are considering the for-profit model as an alternative. But how ...