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× Expand Sara Finger Stephanie Johnson lobbying at the state Legislature. Stephanie Johnson lobbying at the state Legislature. Stephanie Johnson’s husband, Rick, passed away in December 2023 after living with Parkinson’s disease for 13 years. Three months later Stephanie was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. The following month she learned that four other people in their former neighborhood on Madison’s southwest side had also been diagnosed with the neurological condition. “This feels like more than a coincidence,” she recalls thinking. “It might be more of a cluster.” Expand The 2026 Nonprofit Issue logo. Johnson, who has worked in healthcare since the early 1990s, reached out to public health officials at the local and state level with her suspicions. She found that no entity in Wisconsin systematically tracks incidents of Parkinson’s and the prevalence of the disease. She then contacted the Michael J.

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