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Bram Sable-Smith

Bram Sable-Smith

Bram Sable-Smith joined the Center in 2019 as the Wisconsin Public Radio Mike Simonson Memorial Investigative Reporting Fellow. Before moving to Wisconsin he spent five years reporting on health care at KBIA in Columbia, Missouri and as a founding reporter of Side Effects Public Media, a public media reporting collaborative in the Midwest. He also taught radio journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Bram’s contributed stories to National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, American Public Media’s Marketplace and Kaiser Health News. His reporting has received two national Edward R. Murrow awards, two national Sigma Delta Chi awards, a health policy award from the Association of Health Care Journalists among others. Bram is a proficient Spanish speaker and a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.

Lives on Hold

‘I got nothing left’: Wisconsin’s jobless pushed to brink as ideas swirl for mending torn safety net

By Bram Sable-Smith (WPR) | February 18, 2021

Upgrading outdated technology could help. So could making claims more user-friendly and overcoming partisan paralysis.

Coronavirus Coverage

So you’ve been diagnosed with COVID-19. What next?

By Bram Sable-Smith (WPR) | January 18, 2021

Wisconsin experts share tips for limiting spread and boosting your immune system — aiming to prevent hospitalization.

Outbreak Wisconsin

‘I’m happy to be part of history’: An ER nurse gets the coronavirus vaccine, offering example to others

By Bram Sable-Smith (WPR) | December 28, 2020

Health care workers were among the first in Wisconsin on Dec. 14 to receive doses of the new Pfizer vaccine after the state’s first shipments arrived.

Costly Care

‘I just kind of panicked’: Patients confused as hospitals file liens to recoup costs of treating injured uninsured

By Bram Sable-Smith (WPR) | December 22, 2020

Hospitals file liens against uninsured patients to get a cut of compensation in personal injury lawsuits.

Costly Care

A Wisconsin hospital promised to stop suing most patients during the pandemic. Then it filed 200 lawsuits.

By Bram Sable-Smith (WPR) | December 21, 2020

Consumer advocates see an ‘electronic debtor’s prison’ when hospitals and collection agencies take patients to court.

Duane Bark — beloved educator and football coach who painted daughter’s nails, dies of COVID-19 at 61

By Bram Sable-Smith (WPR) | December 17, 2020

Markesan district schools superintendent, athletic director mentored those around him without seeking recognition

NewsMatch

A story that lifted one woman’s burden

By Bram Sable-Smith (WPR) | December 7, 2020

This pandemic has upended life in Wisconsin, as it has around the globe. Each day in this state thousands of people are diagnosed with COVID-19, dozens of people die and many, many more struggle to keep a roof over their heads and food on their tables. This new reality has added greater weight to the journalism we produce at Wisconsin Watch to protect the vulnerable, expose wrongdoing and explore solutions.

We’re proud of our work.

Coronavirus Coverage

Illness, stress fill a COVID-19 unit as Wisconsin leaders stalemate

By Bram Sable-Smith (WPR) | November 20, 2020

Health care workers scrambled to treat patients on a day when 92 Wisconsin lives were reported lost. Outside of the hospital, politicians postured.

Lives on Hold

Thousands await jobless aid as Wisconsin leaders blame each other for failure

By Marty Hobe (TMJ4 News) and Bram Sable-Smith (Wisconsin Watch/WPR) | November 17, 2020

Wisconsin’s unemployment system buckled during the pandemic. State leaders are moving slowly to address a crisis years in the making.

Health & Welfare

How politics paralyzed Wisconsin’s pandemic response — and left families to grieve their losses

By Bram Sable-Smith (WPR) | October 28, 2020

Courts and the Republican-controlled Legislature limited the powers of the Democratic governor. Partisan messaging led many residents to spurn masks and distancing.

Outbreak Wisconsin

‘This is slowly grinding us into dirt’: An ER nurse reflects on the relentless pandemic

By Bram Sable-Smith (WPR) | October 14, 2020

As of October 12, 74 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized in Dane County alone, where Mariah Clark works as an emergency department nurse. Clark said the spike was predictable. “Wisconsin, I love you, but you’re doing it wrong,” she said.

evictions

Evictions damage public health. The CDC aims to curb them — for now.

By Bram Sable-Smith (WPR/Wisconsin Watch), Martha Bebinger (WBUR) and Darian Benson (Side Effects Public Media) | September 29, 2020

Housing and health are intertwined, experts have long preached. Now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pausing evictions to slow the spread of COVID-19.

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