UW Health Confidential Talking Points for Care Teams: Gender-Affirming Care Pause Provenance: Government record
Released January 9, 2026
Internal scripting for staff calling patients and families about the pause, instructing care teams to consistently say "UW Health is pausing prescribing." Includes the operational detail: existing refills may still be filled, histrelin implants will not be replaced, and after January 16 routine monitoring labs must be ordered by a new provider. States there is no end date for the change.
Document
Details
- Collection
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Agency
- University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority (UW Health)
- Record type
- Policy
- Document date
- January 9, 2026
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Source
- UW Health public records response, 2026-07-22
- SHA-256
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Cite this document
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority (UW Health). "UW Health Confidential Talking Points for Care Teams: Gender-Affirming Care Pause." January 9, 2026. Glass Government Reading Room, https://glassgovernment.org/library/uwhealth-gac-talking-points-care-teams/.
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Notes
Original filename "Confidential Talking Points for Care Teams.pdf". Marked confidential as an internal handling label; released under the public records law.