Please Take the Community Health Survey!

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Please Take the Community Health Survey!

Memorial Medical Center and the Ashland, Bayfield, and Iron county health departments are working together to conduct each organization’s community health-needs assessment. Every three years, hospitals are required to conduct a needs assessment and every five years counties are required to complete one. The survey completion deadline is July 12.

The survey is available online at: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6398420/Community-Health-Survey

Paper copies of the survey may be requested by contacting Abby Miller at 715-685-5182 or ammiller@ashlandmmc.com We encourage all to participate in this survey and provide valuable feedback on the health needs in our community!

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Take Action: Contact the Public Service Commission

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Take Action: Contact the Public Service Commission

On June 11, the Public Service Commission (PSC) allowed utilities in Wisconsin to start disconnecting power, as of July 25, from people who’ve fallen behind on their payments.

In March the PSC issued a moratorium on such shut-offs, which it did, until July 25, on the assumption that the coronavirus pandemic would be under control by now and that our economy would be better. Neither is true. The pandemic is back and the unemployment rate stands at 12 percent. Many people simply can’t pay their utilities right now. To allow the utility companies to shut them off will be a disaster.

Call to Action: Please contact the Public Service Commission and urge them to reinstate this moratorium. Click Read More for the email address.

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Take Action: Contact Your County Board Members

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Take Action: Contact Your County Board Members

On July 13, 2020, the Ashland/Bayfield County Public Health Officers issued a Health Order requiring masks be worn in public. On July 15, 2020, The Ashland Daily Press reported both counties stepped back from this order indicating that it was only an advisory. The counties indicated the need for the County Board to oversee any order.

Call to Action: Please read the letters (click Read More) and let your respective county board members know of your concerns and demand that they allow the local public health departments to do the job, which they are entitled to do under the Wisconsin constitution.

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