RWHC Eye On Health - August, 2016

• Leadership in a Highly Connected World
• Wisconsin People & Ideas
• Rural Broadband Not Yet Very Broad
• WCHQ Improvement Toolkits Now On-Line
• Nursing Staff - Family Collaboration
• Leadership Insights: “Bored On Board?”
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - July, 2016

• Socio-Economic Mix: an Inconvenient Truth
• Rural Population Rebound May Be Underway
• Rural Health Disparities
• Wisconsin Idea’s Rural Impact on a Staircase
• Health Depends on Patients Becoming People
• An Advocacy Lesson from the Grand Canyon
• All Games Not Zero Sum
• Honoring Choices: “Conversation Sabbath”
• Leadership Insights: “Bias”
• 24th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Wisconsin Rural Health Conference
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - June, 2016

• Who Cares About the Care Givers?
• Physician Shortage Will Hit Seniors Hardest 
• RWHC 2016 Kristi Hund Award Winners
• Rural Baby Boomers Increasingly Need CARE
• Fatal Crash 3 Times More Likely for Rural
• Peds Hospitals Need to Improve Rural Links
• Leadership Insights: “Introverted Leaders”
• 24th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Wisconsin Rural Health Conference
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - May, 2016

• Early Death Rates Rising in Rural Counties
• “A New Divide in American Death”
• What Do You Call Rural?
• Congressional Gridlock Penalizes Safety Net 
• 2016 Wipfli-RWHC Cost Champions Awards
• “Dose of Reality”
• Leadership Insights: “Vacation!”
• The Top Three Fundraising Principles
• 24th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Wisconsin Rural Health Conference
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - April, 2016

• Health Trends: Mixed Bag and Rural Lags
• Rural Youth More Likely to Abuse Opioids 
• Medicare Continues Anti-Rural Bias
• Doctors and Nurses Are Not Widgets
• APNP Hospitalists Help Rural Hospital
• Physician Engagement Doesn’t Just Happen
• Leadership Insights: “Your Team Productive?” 
• Next Time You Are Asked “Who is Rural?”
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• 24th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Wisconsin Rural Health Conference
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - March, 2016

• Going Broader and Deeper into Healthcare
• Wisconsin Rural Health Leaders on the Hill
• Nursing as an Alternative to Farming
• Virtual Visits & Monitoring: the New Normal
• Rural Pharmacists Critical to Rural Health
• Leadership Insights: “Crickets”
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• 24th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

• Focus & Leadership for Rural Wisconsin
• “Train, Work & Contribute Local”
• Getting Honest About Aging
• Rural Rivals Can Collaborate
• Honoring Choices: Video Worth a 1000 Words
• Leadership Insights: “Ratings Game”
• RWHC Seeks Director Health Plan Contracting
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• 24th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - January, 2016

• Core of Health Care: Being in Relationship
• A Vision for Medicare Rural Payment Reform
• Caregivers Bill of Rights
• The Future of Nursing Still in the Future
• Financing for Non-Profit Capital Projects
• “Invest It Forward”
• Leadership Insights: “Older… Wiser”
• RWHC Seeks Director Health Plan Contracting
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• 24th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

2015

RWHC Eye On Health - December, 2015

• Bigger Isn’t Better
• New Option for Our Smallest Rural Hospitals?
• Grassroots Support for Medicaid Expansion
• Middle-Aged White’s Negative Health Trend
• Leadership Insights: “Can We All Be Above Average?” 
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• 24th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

• Can Presidential Candidates Spell R-U-R-A-L?

• DC in Turmoil
• Federal Penalties Hit Rural & Inner Cities 
• Rural Metrics Report Now in CMS Hands
• Meet Buy-Local Champion Michael Shuman
• 24th RWHC Monato Rural Essay Winner
• Beyond Riding the Bus: Leadership Diversity
• Leadership Insights: “Authentic Leadership”
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs (Open to Non-Members)
• RWHC Seeks Director of Finance
• Help Grow Next Generation Rural Health Leaders
• 24th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - October, 2015

• Rural Health: “You Need the Whole Package”
• The UK is Not a Role Model for US
• Compassion Being Managed Out?
• “Widening World of Hand-Picked Truths”
• Optimism Alive & Well in Rural America
• Q&B-RWHC Community Engagement Award
• Leadership Insights: “Intimidation”
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs (Open to Non-Members)
• RWHC Seeks Director of Finance
• Help Grow Next Generation Rural Health Leaders
• 24th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - September, 2015

• Rural Hospital & Medicare’s Common Ground
• States Grow GME as Congress Fiddles 
• Population Health is Community Health
• Foundations That “Get” Rural Health
• RWHC Focus on Rural Stroke Care
• The Friendship Dividend: a Healthier Life 
• Leadership Insights: “Brain Worms”
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs (Open to Non-Members)
• RWHC Seeks Director of Finance
• 24th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - August, 2015

• Making Up Your Own Science Costs Lives
• Why Not Just One Huge Hospital Per State?
• The State Budget: A Matter of Perspective
• “Investing in Healthy Rural Communities”
• "Essays on People, Place and Purpose"
• What Works to Improve Rural Health?
• Rural Health Care: "Nimble & Evolving"
• A Statewide Focus on Rural Binge Drinking 
• Leadership Insights: “Epic Fail”
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership PrograOpen to Non-Members)
• Eye On Health Cartoons
   

RWHC Eye On Health - July, 2015

• The Business of Rural Health is Health
• Physician Burnout & Local Leadership
• Wisconsin Long-Term Care
• Eight Principles of Collaborative Leadership
• Leadership Insights: “Arrogance”
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs (Open to Non-Members)
• 24th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Add Your Support to Rural Leadership Development
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - June, 2015

• Finding Common Ground on Population Health
• RWHC 2015 Kristi Hund Award Winners
• RWHC Receives Distinguished Service Award
• Wisconsin Collaborative for Rural GME 
• RWHC Quality Indicators Program
• Taking Action to Have Your Choices Honored
• Leadership Insights: “Turn Off the Water”
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs (Open to Non-Members)
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Add Your Support to Rural Leadership Development
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - May, 2015

• CAHs–Don’t Fix What’s Not Broken
• “Collective Impact” Requires Building Trust
•  Don’t Eat Our UW Seed Corn
•  Rural Losing Graduate Medical Education?
•  Upgrade to RWHC’s CVO
•  Leadership Insights: “Independent Cusses”
•  Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
•  Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs (Open to Non-Members)
•  23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
•  Add Your Support to Rural Leadership Development
•  Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - April, 2015

• Telehealth to Healthcare as Jet Plane to Buggy 
• 2015 Wipfli-RWHC Cost Champions Awards
• The 21st Century Rural Hospital
• Swing Beds: OIG Misses Forest for the Trees
• RWHC Financial Consulting Services
• Leadership Insights: “Conflict or Coaching”
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs (Open to Non-Members)
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Add Your Support to Rural Leadership Development
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - March, 2015

• Why Rural Graduate Medical Education?
• RWHC Takes Rural Wisconsin to Washington
• Insurance “Purgatory”: We Can Do Better 
• Vaccination Failure Hits Children & Taxpayers 
• Not Your Grandmother’s Librarian
• Leadership Insights: “AOMM”
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs (Open to Non-Members)
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Add Your Support to Rural Leadership Development
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - February, 2015

• Rural Health's Twin Advantage
• “Will You Be My Doctor?”
• Medical Schools Get the Results They Model
• Binge Drinking: Learning When to Stop
• Quality-When You Are Not the Quality Manager
• Leadership Insights: “Who’s in Charge Here?”
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs (Open to Non-Members)
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Add Your Support to Rural Leadership Development
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - January, 2015

• Getting Health Plan Network Adequacy Right
• Life Time Achievement Award to Greg Nycz 
• Rural Hospitals Lead on Quality Improvement
• Rural Docs Take to EMRs
• UW Center to Improve the Aging Experience
• Immunization Not Just for Kids
• What is Your New Year’s Resolution?
• Leadership Insights: “Vision”
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs (Open to Non-Members)
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Add Your Support to Rural Leadership Development
• Eye On Health Cartoons

2014

RWHC Eye On Health - December, 2014

• Winner-Take-All Politics Keeps Us Divided
• Ebola Hysteria & Working on What Matters
• We Need Metrics No Longer Blind to Reality
• Why a Grayer State Matters to You
• Who Is Working on What?
• If You Read Just One Book This Year
• Leadership Insights: “Who We Don’t See”
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs (Open to Non-Members)
• November 12: “Building a Culture for Patient-Centered Team Based Care” 
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Add Your Support to Rural Leadership Development
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - November, 2014

• Greater Good Needs You to See Them as Us
• Feds Blame Rurals for Fed’s Failure to Act
• Nursing Shortage & Nursing Education
• Act Now to Close Gap in Behavioral Health
• WI Health Systems Leadership Preparation
• New RWHC Behavioral Telehealth Network
• RWHC Welcomes New Corporate Sponsors
• Leadership Insights: “Communicating Power”
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs (Open to Non-Members)
• November 12: “Building a Culture for Patient-Centered Team Based Care” 
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Please Support Rural Leadership Development
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - October, 2014

• Rural Can Be Health Care’s Future
• Rural Community of 3,098 Earns Top Honors
• It Takes a Community to Conquer Diabetes
• Supporting Older Adults in Rural Homes
• RWHC Credentials Verification Service
• “Building a Culture for Patient-Centered Team Based Care”
• Donate to NRHA Rural Leadership Development
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize 
• Leadership Insights: “Power”
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - September, 2014

• Health Data to Be Useful Needs to Be Shared
• “Busy Doctors, Wasteful Spending”
• Be Part of the Solution Rather Than Problem
• 23rd Monato Rural Essay Winner Announced
• Register for “Building a Culture for Patient-Centered Team Based Care”
• 2014 Kristi Hund Award Winners
• Nurse Residency Program Enrollment Open
• Leadership Insights: “Managing”
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - August, 2014

• “What’s It All About?” 
• CMS Proposes Further Blocking Rural GME
• Fair Redistribution of GME Slots Possible?
• The Courage to Be a Geriatrician
• Healthy Hospitals Make Healthy Communities
• ICD-10 In Review
• Leadership Insights: “3 Pivotal Conversations”
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Hold Nov.12th for “Building a Culture for Patient-Centered Team Based Care”
• Eye on Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - July, 2014

• Rural as Bellwether for American’s Safety Net
• Congratulations to WHA’s Quality Team
• Narrow Networks Toss Rural with Bathwater?
• Not Leaving Our Future Workforce to Chance
• RWHC Rural Focused Financial Consultation
• Immunization Starts at the Birthing Hospital
• Leadership Insights: “Resting on Our Laurels”
• Support NRHA Rural Leadership Development
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye on Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - June, 2014 

• CMS Needs to Talk with Us to Understand Us
• The Left & Right Need Each Other’s Insights
• Performance Measures Must Factor in Context
• Rural Telemental Health Update
• Honoring Choices WI Seeks Rural Participants
• Leadership Insights: “Are You Happy?”
• Team members newly hired? Recently promoted?
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - May, 2014

• Building a Culture of Healthy Communities
• 2014 County Health Rankings
• Economic & Physical Health Joined at the Hip
• Most Important Pro-Rural Proposal in Years
• Refusing Vaccines Puts Community at Risk
• 2014 Wipfli-RWHC Cost Champion Awards
• Local Cancer Data Missing-In-Action
• RWHC Corporate Member Spotlight: Quadax
• Leadership Insights: “S.M.A.R.T.er Goals”
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - April, 2014

• Enough is Enough: Operation MASH
• Upper Midwest Tops in Medicare Advantage
• Rural Hospitals Can Lead in Rural Health 
• Responsible Public Reporting
• RWHC HCAHPS Reporting Service
• Leadership Insights: “Sacred Cows”
• Support NRHA Rural Leadership Development
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - March, 2014 

• Insurance Exchanges and Ending Job Lock 
• Governors’ Support for Nurse Practitioners
• Rural–Urban Life Expectancy Gap 
• WI Collaborative for Rural GME Taking Off
• Trusted Sources of Vaccine Information
• RWHC Quality Indicators Program
• Leadership Insights: “We”
• Support NRHA Rural Leadership Development
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

• A Model for Rural Palliative Care
• Hospital Medicare Cuts Deep & Indiscriminate 
• Rural Obesity Prevention Toolkit
• Influenza Immunization Reporting 2014
• RWHC Credentials Verification Service
• Leadership Insights: “Adapt”
• Support NRHA Rural Leadership Development
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

• Now the Real Work Begins
• Frustrating Time to be in Washington
• WI Improving but Less Quickly than Others
• Adams Fights to Decrease Cancer Death Rate 
• Just for a Moment…
• Leadership Insights: “Ego”
• Support NRHA Rural Leadership Development
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

2013 

RWHC Eye On Health - December, 2013 

• Rural Health and the Power of Place
• Fix Longstanding Federal GME Funding Bias
• Physician Workforce Strategy: Waste Less
• WI RN Shortage Forecast to Grow to 20,000
• Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics 
• One Size Doesn’t Fit All
• Collaboration to Reduce Binge Drinking
• RWHC ICD 10 Training Opportunities
• Leadership Insights: “Great Expectations”
• Support NRHA Rural Leadership Development
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

• “Preserve Our Rural Hospitals”
•  “To the Fullest Extent of Their Education”
• Geography & Income Divides America 
• Physical Activity & Breast Cancer Survival
• Exercising Your Spiritual Muscle
• RWHC Corporate Partner: Legato Healthcare
• Leadership Insights: “What’s Your Problem?”
• Support NRHA Rural Leadership Development
• 23rd Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - October, 2013 

• Don’t Abandon Rural Payment Adjustments
• Lake Wobegone is Anything But Safe
• The Inevitable Expansion of Market Reforms
• Rural Health Value Website Launched
• Future Looks Good for Co-op Health Plans
• RWHC Financial Consulting
• The Small Town Healer
• Leadership Insights: “Hit Pause”
• Eye On Health Cartoons

• Population Health Not New
• GME By-Passes Rural America
• Phase 3 of MBQIP is Coming: Are You Ready?
• Alcohol Abuse Costs WI $6.8 Billion a Year
• Support NRHA Rural Leadership Development
• What is Nursing?
• Announcing RWHC Leadership Book Club
• Leadership Insights: “FAQ”
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - July, 2013
 

• Community Drives Health
• Senator Tammy Baldwin Visits With RWHC
• GME Fails Due to a Lack of Rural Focus
• Becoming the “Necessary Condition”
• Transforming Practice One Nurse at a Time
• 2013 Kristi Hund Award Winners
• WI CEO NRHA Volunteer of the Year
• Leadership Insights: “Coordination”
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - June, 2013 
 

• Federal Support for Rural Hospitals?
• Target States with Excess Spending
• Medicaid Expansion Good for Whole State
• How a Rural Hospital Gets in the Top Twenty
• Physician Partnership and Formation
• Transforming Practice One Nurse at a Time
• Leadership Insights: “May Day! May Day!
• Newly hired? Recently promoted?
• Support NRHA Rural Leadership Development
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - May, 2013 
 

• The Case for Medicaid to 133% FPL
• Rural GME Collaborative Picking Up Speed
• Alcohol Abuse Costs Wisconsin $6.8B a Year
• New RWHC Video: “Shawano–Community Health Improvement”
• RWHC Newest Corporate Sponsors
• Wipfli/RWHC 2013 Cost Champions
• Leadership Insights: “Culture Rules”
• UW DVD to Reduce Rural Girl B-Ball Injuries
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - April, 2013 

• Spring Will Follow a Lousy Winter
• Female Death Rates Up in Rural Counties
• Medical Care Aside–What Influences Health?
• Community Health Improvement Honored
• Rural Town Wins Roadmaps to Health Prize
• Leadership Insights: “Sorry”
• Support NRHA Rural Leadership Development
• 21st Annual $2,500 Monato Essay
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - March, 2013 

• Federal Policy Undermines Rural Medicine
• Medicaid Aid: Requesting Reconsideration
• Boondoggle Undermines Medicare Credibility
• RAConline.org Closes the Info Gap for Rural
• Vaccine Cocooning to Protect Newborns
• Message in Search of Meaning
• Leadership Insights: Lessons from First Team
• Support NRHA Rural Leadership Development
• 21st Annual $2,500 Monato Essay 
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - February, 2013 

• For Health: Care Necessary But Not Sufficient
• How Can the US of A Be Disadvantaged?
• Why US Health Care Different?
• “The Matrix” Meets Medicine
• Rural Think Tank Scores Major Support
• The Workforce “Lull Before the Storm”
• Support NRHA’s New Rural Health Foundation
• 21st Annual $2,500 Monato Essay
• Eye on Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - January, 2013 

• Stress in Healthcare is Not a Life Sentence
• Rural Health’s Future on the Line
• Federal Office of Rural Health Turns 25
• Update Re Wisconsin Rural GME Initiative
• Leadership Insights: “Inspire Someone"
• Support NRHA’s New Rural Health Foundation
• 21st Annual $2,500 Monato Essay
• Eye on Health Cartoons

2012

RWHC Eye On Health - December, 2012 

• Obamacare Going Forward with Divided USA
• Walking the Talk of the Wisconsin Idea
• Residencies Lead to Rural RN Job Satisfaction 
• Wisconsin’s ABCD Going National
• “Vaccine-Skeptic” More Than “Anti-Vaccine”?
• Leadership Insights: “Right… or Effective?”
• Support NRHA’s New Rural Health Foundation
• 21st Annual $2,500 Monato Essay
• Eye on Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - November, 2012 

• A Call for Rural Graduate Medical Education
• Overcoming the Challenges of Rural GME
• Strong MD/DO Recruitment Only a Partial Fix
• Making the Most of All Primary Care Talent
• The Economic Value of Rural Health Care
• RWHC Credentials Verification Service
• Leadership Insights: “To Do: My Best”
• “BE BOLD 2: Growing Wisconsin’s Talent Pool”
• Support NRHA’s New Rural Health Foundation
• 21st Annual $2,500 Monato Essay 
• Eye on Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - October, 2012 

• A Rural Need to Know about New Medicare
• Rural Boomers Feeling Physician Crunch
• The Federal Kink In Physician Pipeline
• America’s Forgotten Healthcare Workforce
• Rural Kids: Higher Risk Binge Drinking & DUI
• Leadership Insights: “Inviting Feedback”
• Eye on Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - September, 2012 

• Farm Calls: Walking the Talk of Outreach
• Majority Overweight or Obese in All 50 States
• Medical Science is Not “He Said/She Said”
• Infant Immunization FAQs
• RWHC Financial Consultation Services
• Leadership Insights: "Be HERE Now"
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - August, 2012 

• NRHA Pushes Back Against Medicare Myths
• Closure of Sole Rural Hospital = 4% Tax
• Alternatives to Evidence-Based Medicine
• Population Medicine Leads to Population Health
• Water Quality in Rural Communities?
• Ambiguity–Seeing it Clearly
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - July, 2012 

• Rural Health & Jobs Need Medicare’s Support
• The Rural Brain Gain
• Low Immunization Rates Invite Epidemics
• It Takes a Village to Create Health
• Decisions, decisions…
• Newly hired?  Recently promoted?  Looking to brush up on some management skills?
• USDA Supports RWHC’s Distance Learning Programs
• Editors Pick on YouTube: “John Cleese on Creativity”
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - June, 2012   

• Keep Wisconsin in the Wisconsin Idea
• American Cancer Patients Live Longer
• ABCD: After Breast Cancer Diagnosis
• Children at Risk as “Herd Immunity” Drops
• Raising Childhood Immunization Rates
• RWHC 2012 Nurse Excellence Award
• RWHC Quality Indicators Program
• Blind Spots
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - May, 2012  

• Health Ain’t a Solo Act
• A Rural Look at Health Rankings
• Demand for Primary Care GME On Way Up
• Beyond the Lie of the So Called Death Panels
• First Annual Wipfli-RWHC Cost Champions
• RWHC Service to Non-Members
• Who’s Next?
• Prairie du Chien Hospital’s Helping Hand
• Eye on Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - April, 2012   

• Protecting Medicare’s Rural Health Investment
• Local Dollars, Local Sense
• Medical Students Embracing Family Practice
• 2011 Wisconsin Forward Award Goes to Rural Hospital
• Rural Physician Residencies: Fact & Fiction
• Medical College of Wisconsin Enters New Era
• Reform’s Access Standards a Rural Priority 
• Raising Childhood Immunization Rates: 
• Working Together to Cut Through the Barriers
• Words Are Powerful
• 20th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay 
• Eye on Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - March, 2012 

• Rural Health’s Path to Higher Performance?
• Collaboration to Expand Rural Doc Training
• Hospitalists No Longer a Rural Rarity
• Leader of Network of Networks
• Success Requires Work Built on Trust
• Leadership: Friends & Relationships
• Community Needs Assessment Resource
• Rural Hospital Like a Family
• $2500 Monato Essay Prize Submissions Due April 15th
• Eye on Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - February, 2012  

• Rural Pharmacist: Small Hospital, Big Rewards
• Rural Telestroke Needs Urban Cooperation
• Patient Directed End-of-Life Care
• DVD Injury Prevention for Rural Athletes
• “After the Workshop”
• Former Police Chief: “Collaborate or Perish”
• Hospital, Police Organize Med Collections
• Monato Rural Health Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - January, 2012  

• Physician Shortage: Act Now or Pay Later
• What Will Bundling Do to Rural Health? 
• Integrated Care Requires Advanced Broadband
• Communications and Vaccination
• Attitude Adjustment?
• Eye On Health Cartoons

2011

RWHC Eye On Health - December, 2011  

• Health Workforce Forecast Model Launched
• Rural & Med School Partnerships Can Work
• Place Major Driver of Health
• The Hard Work of Finding America’s Middle
• Listen…
• Fail Fast, Early & Often
• Monato Rural Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - November, 2011  

• Cuts Impact Lifeblood of Rural Communities
• This Isn’t a Drill–Speak Up for Rural Hospitals
• Insurance Exchanges Need to Work for Rural
• Ignoring Evidence & Economics at Our Peril
• Wipfli-RWHC Promote Cost Champions
• Cheeseheads Have Lowest Heart Disease in US
• Managers Use Email or Face-to-Face?
• AgriTalk Interview re Potential of Rural Medicare Cuts
• Safer Use of Ladders
• Monato Rural Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - October, 2011  

• Medicare Cuts Tax Rural Communities
• Ron Kind Shows Off Wisconsin to CMS Chief
• Rural Hospitals: Hubs for Rural Health Care
• We Need to Grow Our Own Physicians
• Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All 
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - August-September, 2011  

• Balancing the Power of Capital & Place 
• Healthy Hospitals Critical to Rural Prosperity
• No One Cause to Dental Health Crisis
• Stress Is What We Make of It
• RWHC 2011 Nurse Excellence Awards
• RWHC 2011 Health Ambassador Awards
• Hold the Date: WHA Care Transitions Connection, November 2nd
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - July, 2011  

• Hippocrates to IOM: “First Do No Harm”
• Medical Schools Can Make a Difference 
• ACOs Urban Centric, Rural Models Needed
• Education, Jobs & Health: Bound at the Hip
• First National Rural Patient Safety Initiative
• Helping Patients Focus on Care Not Cost
• 19th Annual RWHC Monato Essay Prize Winners Announced
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - June, 2011  

• America’s Rural Hospitals
• Health Insurance Exchanges & Rural Health
• Getting Practical About Population Health
• Health Policy: Evidence & Dialogue Matter 
• WI Rural Health Series Receives Top Award
• Leading with Heart 
• RWHC QI Program Nationally Certified
• Stoughton Free Clinic Offers Holistic Care\
• "Eye on Health" Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - May, 2011  

• ACOs Not Ready for Rural Primetime
• Wake-Up Call: County Health Rankings
• Wellness Like Real Estate: Location, Location
• Medicare’s Role in Setting Primary Care Pay
• CAHs Taxed by CMS “Clarification”
• Leadership Insights: Can We Collaborate?
• Hospital Focus on Family, Friends & Farm
• "Eye on Health" Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - April, 2011  

• A Strong Country Needs Arguing & Listening 
• Can Rs and Ds Adopt a Business Principle? 
• Doctor Shortage Time Bomb 
• Rural Remains Less Healthy Than Metro 
• Healthy Places Need Community Tables 
• Leadership Development: Quotes & Questions 
• Fort Atkinson’s Community Dental Clinic 
• Monato Annual Rural Health Essays for $2,000 Prize Due April 15th  
• “Eye On Health” Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - March, 2011  

• Workplace Wellness–from Slogan to Reality
• Green Bay Cheeseheads & Collaboration
• Social Entrepreneurship & Population Health
• Childhood Vaccination–The Tough Questions
• Leadership Lessons from a Cranberry Grower
• Community Care–Viroqua, WI
• RWHC $2,000 Prize for Best Rural Health Essay
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - February, 2011  

• Why We, and Our Country, Need Civility
• Real Med Schools Do Primary Care Right
• Americans Accurately Report Excess Weight 
• Wisconsin Children Not Being Vaccinated
• Home Care Co-ops Bridge Rural Isolation
• SO WHAT you have to make a presentation!
• RWHC $2,000 Prize for Best Rural Health Essay
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - January, 2011

• For Better or Worse, ACOs New HMOs 
• Wisconsin Dental HPSAs–November, 2010
• Opponents Drinking Fluoridated Kool-Aid?
• Nursing Shortage: Calm Before the Storm
• Rural Hospitals Focus on Buying Local Food
• Imagine a Successful Next Year
• RWHC $2,000 Prize for Best Rural Health Essay
• Eye On Health Cartoons

2010

RWHC Eye On Health - December, 2010

• Rural Health Care Equals Rural Jobs
• The 3 Bears Story of Reform: 42%–29%–20%
• Anything But Sober in Lake Wobegone
• New Era of Opportunity for Population Health
• Managing Population Health
• The Need to Be Liked?
• Tax Exemption Threat to Population Health
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - November, 2010  

• The Future of Nursing
• Boomer Retirements to Hit WI Nursing Hard
• New Physician Shortage Forecast Skyrockets 
• “Geographic” Chasm in Value Debate
• “Primary Care Well Beyond ‘Rural’ ”
• Annual National Rural Report Released
• Wisconsin Hospitals Community Benefits
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - October, 2010  

• Catholic Association Speaks Up for Rural
• Smaller Rural Hospitals Face $ Pressure
• HIT Meaningful Use: Six Strategic Questions
• Medicare Needs to Get Real on Telehealth
• It’s Now Official: America is “Obesogenic
• ” Wisconsin's Best & Worst Five Health Measures
• Too Rare Collaboration Good for Researchers
• Rural Hospitals Show Their Excellence
• Learning Heart Health the Hard Way
• Rural Health Access & Workforce
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - September, 2010  

• Primary Care No Longer Medicine’s Stepchild
• The Midwest Takes Collaboration Seriously
• Small Rural Not Barrier to Quality Surgery
• Promoting Health Through Relationships
• Engaging Patients in Their Healthcare
• Has the Nursing Shortage Disappeared?
• RWHC Leadership Series 2010-2011
• Free Clinic a Cooperative Effort
• Rural Wisconsin Battles EMS shortage
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - August, 2010  

• Health Care Reform & Our Political System?
• An Alternative View on Primary Care Quality
• Rural Hospitals Lead on Patient Assessment
• National Insurers Limit Choice of Providers
• Children First & Rural Food Systems
• Communication: Advocacy vs Inquiry 
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - July, 2010  

• Managing the Uncertainty of Health Reform
• East Coast Hears “Tiny Midwest” Grumbles
• “Surgical Deserts in the US”
• Managing Weight at Work
• Sauk Prairie’s Health Trip
• High Functioning Leadership
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - June, 2010  

• The Case for Primary Care Renewal & Reform
• Union Succeeds with Wellness Incentive
• New Congressional Quality Care Coalition
• The Need for CAH-FQHC Collaboration
• Got Y?  
• RWHC Corporate Partner: Unity
• Untiring HIM Advocate Receives Top Honor
• ”Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - May, 2010 

• “Reform” Doesn’t Pretend to Have All Answers
• The Other Shoe Drops After 45 Years
• “Sharpening the Axe”
• Wisconsin Office to Implement Reforms
• Proof of e-Savings Remains Elusive
• Recruitment Starts With Relationships
• “Community Care – Providing Relief
• ”Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - April, 2010  

• Neither Backwater Nor Lake Wobegone
• WI County Health Rankings Go National
• First Juneau County-Now The Nation
• Health Care Shouldn’t Be Out of Reach
• Health Reform... Tiresome and So Familiar
• Work Place Conflict–What If We... 
• RWHC Corporate Partner: ADP
• Southwest Receives Press Ganey Top Award
• From Desperation to Relief
• Rural Health Travelogue: One Cemetery
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - March, 2010  

• Are We Governable?
• “This is America; That's How It Works”
• EHR Program: Stretch Without Breaking
• Rolling Rural Web Access
• RWHC: Your Partner Your Source
• Rural Hospitals as Part of the Safety Net
• 18th Annual RWHC Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons 

 RWHC Eye On Health - February, 2010  

• First Steps & Unintended Consequences 
• No Master Cost Control Plan a Bad Thing? 
• 2009’s Best Healthcare Political Whoppers 
• “Meaningful Use” Impact on Rural Providers 
• Evidence Based Regulation? 
• Rural Law Specialists: Quarles & Brady, LLP 
• Columbus Community Care 
• 18th Annual RWHC Monato Essay Prize 
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - January, 2010 

• RWHC Eye On Health, January 1st, 2010
• Canadian Lessons for Rural Hospitals
• An Urban View of Rural: Glass Mostly Empty
• Six Things Have Come Together to Fracture Public Space
• Location Matters as Rural Loses & Gains Jobs
• Rural Roads Major Health Hazard
• Community Care Brightens Days Ahead
• 18th Annual RWHC Monato Essay Prize
• NRHA Annual Policy Institute
• Eye On Health Cartoons

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2009

RWHC Eye On Health - December 1st, 2009 

• Calm in the Eye of the Storm
• RWHC Blogs
• Regional Cost Variation Not Just Urban issue
• Telestroke Coming (Slowly) Into Its Own
• Osteopathic Medicine Looks at Whole Person
• NRHA Annual Policy Institute
• Health Reform & Expanded Rural Coverage
• 18th Annual RWHC Monato Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health -  November 1st, 2009

• Reform Means Little Without Rural Access
• The Challenge of Healthy Rural Communities
• Nobel Prize Affirms Cooperative Enterprise
• Learning Rural Health Leadership
• Rural Hospitals Drill Down into Service Costs
• Rural Advocate Blog
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - October 1st, 2009

• Reform Starts With You
• Three Barriers to Solving Our Big Problems
• What Do We Want When Our Time Comes?
• BlueCross vs. Big Mac
• Rural Entrepreneurs Born and Made
• Local Dialysis Maintains Independence
• Club Scrub Tool Kit
• Rural Advocate Blog
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - September 1st, 2009

• Rural Faces Reform Hard Hit by Recession
• Debate Beyond the Lunatic Fringes?
• "Civility reins at Kind’s town hall meeting"
• Co-ops Neither Stupid Idea Nor Magic Bullet
• Future Workforce Crisis a Global Challenge
• Federal View on Rural Healthcare Workforce
• Wisconsin View on Healthcare Workforce
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health, August, 2009–"Gone Fishing"

RWHC Eye On Health - July 1st, 2009

• Fight Recession with Health
• Rural Helps Lead as Incubator for Innovation
• Rural Kentucky Innovation in World News
• Meaningful HIT Use Blocked by Definition
• Rural Assistance Center an Info Gold Mine
• Workforce Collaborative Faces Forecast Gap
• 2009 Monato Prize Essay on Rural HIV/AIDS
• RWHC 2009 Nurse Excellence Awards
• RWHC 2009 Health Ambassador Awards
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - June 1st, 2009

• Local Clusters of Self-Reliance
• RWHC Seeks Director Member Relations & Business Development
• We Don’t Need More Simplistic Solutions
• Hard Times in the Heartland
• “Meaningful EHR Use” Wonky but Matters
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - May 1st, 2009

• Top 10 Rural Issues for Health Reform
• With Health “Reform,” No Free Lunch
• RWHC Blog: “The Rural Health Advocate”
• Rural Life Is a High Risk Enterprise
• Baby Boomers Reinvent the “R” Word
• Five Telehealth Projects Approved for $46 million in Universal Service Funds
• Cooperatives Are Major Economic Engine
• Wisconsin Annual Rural Health Conference
• RWHC Statement of Core Values
• Raising Health, Wellness & Safety Awareness
• "Rural Health Care: Innovations in Policy and Practice"
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - April 2nd, 2009

• Rural Primary Care–We Get What We Incent
• The UW Physician Asst. Program “Gets It”!
• CAHs’ Electronic Medical Record Challenge
• Rural & Race Matter
• Promoting Healthy Fast Food
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - March 1st, 2009

• What’s Next?
• Want Good Health? Family & Friends Matter
• Restoring Balance to American Medicine
• UW Med School Seeks Rural Applicants
• We Fiddle While Kid’s Cavities Fester
• CRNAs Trained to Serve Rural Wisconsin
• Future Medical Pros Get Preview
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - February 1st, 2009

• Workforce Crisis – “Time for Talk is Over”
• Conversation with Federal Workforce Leader
• A Picture of the Wisconsin Workforce Crisis
• Successful Non-Profits Think Node Not Hub
• Rural ED Performance Improvement
• Local Access to Oncology Services
• $2,000 Rural Essay Prize Deadline is April 15th
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - January 1st, 2009

• An Opportunity for American Healthcare
• The Experts Finally Find a Common Voice?
• In Spite of Challenges, Rural Holds Its Own
• Access to Physician Care Increasingly Grim
• Medicare Plans Physician Incentive Program
• Medicare Experiment Not Going as Expected
• Rural Hospital Survival Benefits Community
• Community Care in Platteville
• $2,000 Rural Essay Prize Deadline is April 15th
• Eye On Health Cartoons

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2008

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - December, 2008

• Aging Population Drives Physician Shortage
• We Don’t Get What We Don’t Pay For
• Rural Health Information Technology Scan
• “From the Middle”: Social Entrepreneurship
• I Want to Be a Nurse When I Grow Up
• $2,000 Rural Essay Prize Deadline is April 15th
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - November, 2008

• Here We Go Again
• RWHC ITN “First in the Country”
• 17th Annual Monato Essay Prize Now $2,000
• Rural Pharmacy Rotations Pay Dividends
• UW Promotes e-Learning for MDs
• Wisconsin AHEC Centers Nearly Double
• Rural Wisconsin Health Leaders Honored
• Hospital Promotes Health to 3rd Graders
• Rural Health Policy Institute: January 26-28th, Washington DC
• Eye On Health Cartoons