Aurora Health Care teammates plant 100 trees at Milwaukee’s Popuch Park

Initiative supports healthier communities and progress toward 30,000-tree goal

October 14, 2026Share this story:

Aurora Health members planting trees in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 13, 2026 — Aurora Health Care, part of Advocate Health, joined Milwaukee County Parks staff and community leaders Tuesday to plant 100 trees at Popuch Park, supporting efforts to expand Milwaukee’s urban tree canopy and create healthier, more resilient neighborhoods.

The event supports Advocate Health’s commitment to plant or fund the planting of 30,000 trees across the communities it serves by 2030. The initiative is designed to expand green space while addressing environmental factors that can affect health, including extreme heat, air pollution and flooding.

“Planting trees is a tangible way we can invest in the health and resilience of our communities,” said Cecilia DeLoach Lynn, vice president of enterprise sustainability at Advocate Health. “By working alongside our teammates and community partners, we’re creating greener spaces that can make a meaningful difference in the places people live, work and gather.”

Teammates planted several tree varieties, including oaks, maples and dogwoods. Popuch Park was selected in partnership with Milwaukee County Parks as part of a broader effort to expand Milwaukee’s urban tree canopy and natural areas. Since launching the initiative in 2025, Advocate Health has planted or funded more than 7,000 trees across the communities it serves, making steady progress toward its goal of 30,000 trees by 2030.

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About Aurora Health Care

Aurora Health Care is the state’s largest health system caring for patients across eastern Wisconsin and a portion of Michigan as an integrated care network that includes 18 hospitals, nearly 300 sites of care and 70 pharmacies. Aurora Health Care is committed to continuously advancing how care is connected and delivered — ensuring communities have access to high-quality, coordinated services. It is part of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States. Advocate Health is a preeminent academic health system at the forefront of clinical excellence, innovation and research, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as its academic core. Nationally recognized for expertise in heart and vascular, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, Advocate Health is also a pioneer in the delivery of virtual health care. It’s accelerating discovery by making research participation part of the standard-of-care through its one-of-a-kind National Center for Clinical Trials, plus two affiliated life-sciences-focused innovation districts and one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs, with an experiential learning focus and specialized residencies to help protect the long-term sustainability of rural health care in America. With more than 165,000 teammates serving patients at 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations across eight states, Advocate Health reinvests over $6 billion each year to improve community health, making it one of the nation’s largest providers of community benefit.