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"Rural healthcare: Lessons from 2020 and how to prepare for 2021": A free 60-min video panel discussion w/ Q & A session on Tues., January 19, 2021 at 1:00 (CST). Join us for an exclusive discussion with top association executives about the current and future state of rural healthcare.

The Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative (RWHC) has established the Rural Health Ambassador Award to recognize employees at member hospitals who have gone above the call of duty in promoting their respective organizations, and made significant contributions to rural health care in general.

Childcare has emerged as a top priority in all three of Wisconsin Partners’ regional groups. We’ve seen how childcare has been a challenge for parents, grandparents, providers, and employers, thereby affecting the community at large. And, even though a state child care subsidy program exists, less than 10% of income-eligible families use it.

A Commentary by Tim Size, RWHC Executive Director

RWHC's Cella Hartline, Erin Smital and Jo Anne Preston, share resiliency tips and techniques.

A Wisconsin ER Nurse Reflects On The Relentless Pandemic.

Check out WCRGME’s Rural Healthcare video that was shared with medical students during their Off the Beaten Path event on September 25th in place of the in-person facility tour that would normally occur

RWHC’s 28th Annual $2,500 Monato Rural Health Essay Prize has been awarded to Brooke Resch, a recent graduate of the Wisconsin Academy of Rural Medicine for her essay, “Grandpa Needs Help.”

(60 min) - NRHA Annual Conference June 17, 2020

(WSAW-TV) Rural Wisconsin hospitals have largely been spared the nationwide closures that have plagued some states around the country in the past decade. But six weeks into a postponement of elective procedures that’s left them without half or more of their revenue streams, federal funding has so far covered barely a third of those losses and experts fear for their future.