Addie Costello

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Madison's Yahara House serves people living with mental illness

3 weeks ago | wisconsinwatch.org | Addie Costello

Reading Time: 7 minutes Click here to read highlights from the storyYahara House, part of the nonprofit Journey Mental Health Center, is a community mental health program focused on building relationships and job opportunities. Its clubhouse model reduces hospitalizations and boosts employment in adults with serious mental illnesses, experts and advocates say. Yahara House is one of just seven clubhouses in the state and just three with international accreditation.
Families seek answers after deaths of two women incarcerated at Taycheedah prison

1 month ago | madison.com | Addie Costello

Two women incarcerated at Taycheedah Correctional Institution have died following hospital stays that began Feb. 22. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has shared limited information about their deaths, frustrating family members and those locked up at the maximum- and medium-security women’s prison. Shawnee Reed, 36, died Feb. 23, a day after arriving at an area hospital.
Families seek answers after deaths of two women incarcerated at Taycheedah prison

1 month ago | lakegenevanews.net | Addie Costello

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Two women die at Wisconsin’s Taycheedah prison

1 month ago | wisconsinwatch.org | Addie Costello

Reading Time: 4 minutes Click here to read highlights from the storyTwo women incarcerated at Taycheedah Correctional Institution have died following hospital stays that began Feb. 22. Family members of both women say hospital staff linked the deaths to pneumonia. They said both women started mentioning health issues over the phone around a month ago. Corrections officials briefly locked down part of Taycheedah due to an increase in respiratory illnesses.
Federal budget proposals worry Wisconsin Medicaid recipients

1 month ago | apg-wi.com | Addie Costello

Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s Madison office Tuesday to voice their concerns over potential cuts to Medicaid. The Republican-led Congress is considering significant cuts to Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income households. In Wisconsin, that includes programs such as BadgerCare Plus, which serves children, pregnant people and non-disabled adults, and long-term care programs for people with disabilities and seniors.
Who pays for PFAS? Governor, GOP lawmakers wrestle over cleanup liability

1 month ago | civicmedia.us | Addie Costello |Phil Nee |Teri Barr |Adam Hess

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican lawmakers continue to dig in their heels during a years-long tug-of-war over how regulators should hold property owners liable for contamination caused by “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. They are pushing competing proposals to protect so-called innocent landowners — those who didn’t knowingly cause their PFAS pollution — from liability under Wisconsin’s decades-old environmental cleanup law.
Federal budget proposals worry Wisconsin Medicaid recipients

1 month ago | wpr.org | Addie Costello

Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson's Madison office Tuesday to voice their concerns over potential cuts to Medicaid. The Republican-led Congress is considering significant cuts to Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income households. In Wisconsin, that includes programs like BadgerCare Plus, which serves children, pregnant people and non-disabled adults, and long-term care programs for people with disabilities and seniors.
How tips shape Wisconsin Watch's health care reporting

2 months ago | wisconsinwatch.org | Addie Costello

Reading Time: 2 minutes Addie Costello here, Wisconsin Watch reporter and WPR investigative reporting fellow. Most of my reporting focuses on issues related to health care, and my editor asked me to write a bit about how tips have shaped my stories. First, you have to know that I have an unbreakable phone pacing habit. My family mocks the little circles I make — in and out of the kitchen and up and down the living room — when I get a call.
Wisconsin residents organize in fight to keep county nursing homes public

2 months ago | wpr.org | Addie Costello

Nancy Roppe, 64, has advice for anyone speaking at a Portage County Board meeting: Write your statement down, rehearse it ahead of time and keep it under three minutes. As she leaves home for each board meeting, her husband Joe offers his own advice to his wife: "Don't get tased."Nancy, a self-described "five foot nothing, crippled little old lady," fiercely opposes selling Portage County's public nursing home to a private bidder.
Wisconsin residents resist county plans to sell nursing homes

2 months ago | wisconsinwatch.org | Addie Costello

Reading Time: 8 minutes Click here to read highlights from the storySeveral grassroots campaigns aim to halt the privatization of county-owned nursing homes, which tend to be better staffed, have higher quality of care and draw fewer complaints than facilities owned by for-profits and nonprofits. A for-profit company decided against buying Lincoln County’s nursing home following an organizer and board member’s lawsuit.