RWHC Eye On Health - March pdf

• Who Cares for Our Caregivers?
• Growing Rural Wisconsin’s Next Doctors
• Spirituality–Part II
• Leadership Insights: “Transparency”
• Champions of Health Campaign
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• 27th Annual Monato Rural Essay Prize Submissions Due June 1st
• Help Develop the Next Generation of Rural leaders?
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - February pdf

• Rural Health & Economic Development 
• “How Rural America is Saving Itself”
• Making Rural Health Insurance Work
• Spirituality–Part I
• Leadership Insights: “Work/Life Balance”
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• 27th Annual Monato Rural Essay Prize Submissions Due June 1st
• Donate to NRHA Foundation for Rural Leadership Development
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - January.pdf

• A Gift for the Holidays
• Making Holidays Better for Caregivers
• The Growing Rural Family Care Giver Crisis
• A Path to Improving Clinicians’ Engagement
• A Very Partial List of Rural Health Innovations in Wisconsin
• Mind of a Champion: Join the Health Champions Campaign
• Leadership Insights: “Story Time”
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• 27th Annual Monato Rural Essay Prize Submissions Due June 1st
• Donate to NRHA Foundation for Rural Leadership Development
• NRHA Health Policy Institute, Feb 5-7
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Eye On Health Cartoons

2018

 

RWHC Eye On Health - December.pdf

• As the Dust Settles
• USDA Combats Rural Opioid Crisis
• Rural Quality Not a Backwater
• Leadership Insights: “Daily Pep Talks”
• NRHA Rural Health Institute
• Dementia Friendly Toolkit
• UW Madison Seeks Associate Dean for Public Health & Community Engagement 
• Mind of a Champion: Join the Health Champions Campaign
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• 27th Annual Monato Rural Essay Prize Submissions Due June 1st
• Donate to NRHA Foundation for Rural Leadership Development
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - November.pdf

• How America Can Rediscover Itself
• Rural as Incubator/Innovator for Cooperation
• "What Works for Health in Wisconsin"
• Finding Common Ground in a Divided USA
• RWHC “Champions of Health” Campaign 
• Leadership Insights: “Computer Hell”
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Monato Rural Essay Prize Submissions Due June 1st
• We Need Rural Leaders
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - October.pdf

• Social Isolation–a Killer of Rural Elders
• “Suicide and the Wisconsin Farmer”
• Local Markets Drive Rural Hospital Health
• RWHC Leadership Residency Program
• Leadership Insights: “Leading: Life & Death”
• RWHC “Champions of Health” Public Service Announcement Campaign
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Monato Rural Essay Prize Submissions Due June 1st
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - September.pdf

• Rural Health’s Mission: Embrace Disruption
• Partners Keep Local Care Local
• Rural Making Healthier Communities
• Addiction Hotline for Wisconsin Providers
• We Can Relearn to Talk with Each Other
• Leadership Insights: “Feeding the Feedback”
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - August.pdf

• Physician Shortages Less But Still Challenge
• The High Rate of Physician Suicide>
• “Nurse Suicide: Breaking the Silence”
• Physician Assistant Services
• Honoring a Legend–Jerry Worrick
• “The Better Angels of Our Nature”
• Leadership Insights: “It’s Hard to be Humble”
• We Need Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - July.pdf

• Whose Values Count?
• New Federal Attack on Affordable Care Act
• In Rural Health, Location Matters
• Rural Likes Nurse Practitioners
• Share Your Innovation in Primary Care
• A Rural Asset: Happiness
• We Need Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - June.pdf

• Medicare Commits to a Rural Strategy
• Evolving Payer-Provider Relationships
• US Seeks 1 Million Health Research Partners
• Leadership Insights: “Considering Speaking”
• 26th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• We Need Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - May.pdf

• Wisconsin Aces
• Nation’s First Rural OB-GYN Track
• What to Do About the VA?
• 2018 Wipfli-RWHC Cost Champion Awards
• Rural Health’s 2018 Outstanding Educator
• Jo Anne Has “Gone Fishing”
• 26th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• We Need Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health -April.pdf

• Opioid Overdoses Continue to Worsen
• Our Collective Influence
• Southwest Wisconsin Recovery Pathways
• “Achieving Rural Health Equity”
• 2018 County Health Rankings Released
• Leadership Insights: “Inheriting a Team”
• 26th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• We Need Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - March.pdf

• Celebrating Rural Hospitals
• Rebuilding Rural Infrastructure
• Think Beyond the Sound Bite
• >Healthcare’s Invisible Workforce
• Turning Students on to Health Careers
• Leadership Insights: “Receiving Feedback”
• 26th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• We Need Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - February.pdf

• The Seven Rural Health Challenges
• Rural Red Redux?
• A Call to Reinvest in Rural Infrastructure
• Life as a Rural Psychiatrist
• Leadership Insights: “Wisconsin BEER”
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• The 2018 NRHA Rural Health Policy Institute
• 26th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• We Need Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - January.pdf

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• “Rural America at a Glance”
• What If We Defined Urban as Non-Rural?
• Rural Needs Healthcare Jobs More Than Ever
• Whose Health Experience Are We Measuring?
• “Familiarity Leads to Understanding”
• Leadership Insights: “Leader Lists”
• Rural Health Careers Wisconsin
• Wisconsin Healthy Community Designation
• The 2018 NRHA Rural Health Policy Institute
• 26th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• We Need Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

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RWHC Eye On Health - December.pdf

• A Non-Nurse on the Future of Nursing
• “Epidemic of Despair in the Rural Heartland?”
• Common Ground at the Thompson Center
• Network Adequacy is a Central Rural Issue
• Leadership Insights: “F.E.A.R.”
• 26th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - November.pdf

• Rural Telemedicine: “Haves” or “Have Nots”?
• “Telehealth: An Update on the Evidence”
• Behavioral Telehealth at RWHC
• Suicide & Lack of Mental Health Services 
• Leadership Insights: “Gen X-Forgotten Again”
• 26th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - October.pdf

• Khou Xiong, Physician Assistant for Red Cliff
• Can We Talk?
• Negative Partisanship, and It’s Getting Uglier
• 25th RWHC Rural Essay Prize Winner
• Rural Hospital’s Success in Stroke Outreach
• Leadership Insights: “Supervising Boomers”
• 26th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - September.pdf

• One Step Closer to Being the Healthiest
• Rural Doesn’t Need High-Minded Paternalism
• A Multi-Billion Dollar Broadband Investment 
• Register Now for Wisconsin’s Statewide Workforce Summit
• Isolation’s Impact on Health 
• Five Top Tips to Beat Loneliness
• 3rd Annual Community Engagement Awards
• Wisconsin Partners Seeks a Community Builder (.5 FTE)
• Leadership Insights: “Thinking Strategically”
• Rural Health Leadership Radio
• 25th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - August.pdf

• Medicaid Cuts Devastating for Rural America
• “Meth Rises in Shadow of Opioids”
• “Patient Engagement versus Experience”
• Priming the WI Rural Health Workforce Pump
• Collaborating to Reduce Preventable Diseases
• Leadership Insights: “Helping Too Much”
• 25th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - June.pdf

• Health Bill Headaches in the Senate
• America’s Nurses Oppose AHCA
• Disagreeing without Being Disagreeable
• Rural Health Networks and Coalitions Toolkit
• Rural Social Isolation & Public Health
• Leadership Insights: “Abe Lincoln-Project Manager”
• 25th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye on Health for July - NA, Editor "Went Fishing"

RWHC Eye On Health - May.pdf

• “Need a Hospitalist? Call a Nurse!”
• Transforming Practice One Nurse at a Time
• A Rural Primer for Non-Rurals
• The 2017 Wipfli-RWHC Cost Champions
• You Become What You Think
• Leadership Insights: “Who Will Work?”
• 25th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - April, 2017

• CMS Rural Health Council Visits Sauk City
• NRHA Letter to President Trump
• A Rural View Needed on Population Health
• Structure, Mine & Present EHR Big Data
• Leadership Insights: “Change Challenges-II”
• “The 7 Habits of Highly Depolarizing People”
• 25th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - March, 2017

• Rural Must Not Become Collateral Damage
• Washington, DC, at 82 Feet Above Sea Level
• U.S. Bi-Partisan Support for Rural Hospitals 
• The Heroism of Incremental Care
• The Importance of Place to Rural Health
• Leadership Insights: “Change Challenges-I”
• We Need Rural Health Leaders
• 25th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health - February, 2017

• “America’s Pain” - Urban & Rural
• “Work Worthy of the Moment”
• The Aging Out of Unpaid Caregivers
• Ask the 3 Questions Key to Your Healthcare
• Leadership Insights: “Leading? GO!”
• Recently Discovered in RWHC Archives
• 25th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - January, 2017

• Rural Health & the Trump Administration
• Wisconsin’s Weighty Challenge
• What Works for Rural?
• “Just Growing Old” is a Lousy Explanation
• “Testing Whether… (We) Can Long Endure”
• Leadership Insights: “Calculated Risks”
• 25th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

2016

RWHC Eye On Health - December, 2016

• An Open Letter to President-Elect Trump
• What’s Next for Washington & Rural Health?
• Rural/Urban: Judge Less, Understand More
• Leadership Insights: “I Have Confidence”
• 25th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - November, 2016

• Reality Based “Elitophobia
• ”Rural Wisconsin Initiative Version 2.0
• Rural Mental Health-Care Shortages Continue
• RWHC Behavioral Telehealth Goes Live
• Quality of Care Goes Well Beyond Metrics
• Leadership Insights: “Morale”
• 25th Annual $2,500 Monato Essay Prize
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - October, 2016

• We Need Older Workers for the Future Us
• The Workforce Shortage We Don’t See
• WHEFA Serves All 501(c)(3) Non-Profits
• “A Partnership of Wellness”
• 24th RWHC Rural Essay Prize Winner
• Leadership Insights: “Preventing Turnover”
• Help Grow Next Generation of Rural Health Leaders
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health - September, 2016

• Narrowing the Rural Urban Divide
• “Small & Independent Remains Beautiful”
• WI Looking at 4,000 Physician Shortage
• Faces of Wisconsin’s Future Nurses
• Q&B-RWHC Community Engagement Award
• “Ageism Makes Us Sick”
• Leadership Insights: “Speaking of Religion”
• Upcoming RWHC Leadership Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

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

RWHC Eye On Health -February, 2016

• 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

RWHC Eye On Health - November, 2015

• 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

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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

RWHC Eye On Health - January, 2014 

• 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

  

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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

  

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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

 

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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

 

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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

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - October, 2008

• It’s Our Country, Whether We Like It or Not
• With Prevention, Your Insurance Plan Matters
• What Return on Investments for Wellness?
• We Already Pay for Most Uninsured “Care”
• Rural Health Leadership–Past & Future
• Calvin Beale Helped Nation See Rural Reality
• Support for Diabetic Patients Beyond Medical
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - August-September, 2008

• Mental Illness: a Conspiracy of Silence?
• Health Workforce: Out of Order, Out of Time
• Wisconsin Organizes to Get Workforce Data
• Some Neighbors Easier to Love Than Others
• Place Matters
• Club Scrub “Grows Your Own”
• School Sports Supported by Rural Hospital
• RWHC Seeks Associate Director for Advocacy
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - July, 2008

• Surf, Turf and the Future of Primary Care
• A Rural Hospital Leads on Dental Access
• 2008 Monato Rural Essay Prize Winner
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - June, 2008

• Rural Hospitals’ Charitable Exemption
• Rising Mortality Rates Affect All of Us
• Employer-Based Health Reformed Away?
• Rural Innovation & Cooperation
• New Guide on Rural Leadership
•  “There Oughta Be a Law”
• RWHC ‘08 Rural Health Ambassador Awards
• RWHC ‘08 Nurse Excellence Awards
• Hospice Touch
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - May, 2008

• What Were They Smoking?
• Patients Give Rural Hospitals High Marks
• Federal Policy Penalizes Community Service
• Medicare Private Plans Grow in Wisconsin
• CMS Improves CAH Bed Definitions
• Addressing Rural Men’s Health
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - April, 2008

• Medicare Dis-Advantage
• Heathcare Quality & Safety Is No Accident
• State of States: Rural Barriers Persist
• County Governments Expand Health Agenda
• Healthier Communities: Worksite by Worksite
• Hospital Promotes Diabetes Self-Management
• Worksite Culture Affects Parental Roles
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - March, 2008

• Reform Needs Renewed Sense of Community
• Med Schools Get the Results They Select For
• Occasionally, a Good Idea from New York
• Medical Myths That Can Kill You
• Hospital Partners to Create Job Opportunities
• Where They Really the Good Old Days?
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - February, 2008

• Medicare Agency Acting Out Against Rural?
• Rural ER Wait Time Half of Urban Hospitals
• The Business Case & Role for Primary Care
• Curing the Overtreament Epidemic
• Medicare Private Plans Grow in Wisconsin
• Rural Hospital Goes the Extra Mile
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - January, 2008

• Where is Rural in Health Care Reform?
• One in Five Can’t Afford Needed Care
• Nursing Faculty Shortage = Nursing Shortage
• If RAC Can’t Tell You, Nobody Can
• How Do We Build or Rebuild Real Towns?
• Piranhas Leave Clean Bite
• FCC to Help RWHC HIT Initiatives
• Rural Hospitals & Their Larger Community
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 

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2007

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - December, 2007

• Health Care Reform Inevitable, Just Not Yet
• Healthcare Work Force, a Critical Prognosis
• Dental Associations—Cure or Curse?
• America’s Health: a Tale of Two Counties
• Wisconsin’s “Club Scrub” Honored
• RWHC Passages
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - November, 2007 

• Fed Building Ban Hamstrings Rural Hospitals
• Health Workforce Planning Blindfolded
• High US Chronic Disease Rates Cost Driver
• In (Partial) Praise of Silos
• Rural Hospitals & Their Larger Community
• Living With “Those People”
• RWHC Passages
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - October, 2007

• Healthcare Without Prevention Misses Target
• Local Pharmacists Being Forced Out
• Private Insurers’ Growing Share of Medicare
• $1.6 Million Grant Boosts RWHC HIT Plan
• Wisconsin Extends Nurse Residency Grant
• Rural Hospitals Benefit From AHEC Support
• The Bias Against Funding Rural Projects
• Rural Hospitals & Their Larger Community
• RWHC Passages of Friends
• Rural WISC Leadership Opportunity
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - September, 2007

• Employees & Employers Getting Prevention
• Wellness Requires Knocking Holes in Silos
• Profile of a Rural Community Success Story
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - August, 2007

• American Looks Homeward on the 4th of July
• SiCKO, July 4th & Visions of America
• Do We Want Business-like Government?>
• The Double Bottom Line of Small Hospitals
• We Have More to Learn about Birds & Bees
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - July, 2007

• Why Rural Nurses Matter
• Private Medicare Plans Taken to Woodshed?
• Medicare Closing Rural Pharmacies
• Wisconsin Academy of Rural Medicine
• RWHC Œ06 Rural Health Ambassador Awards
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - June, 2007 

• New Era of Hospital-Physician Collaboration
• IRS Approves Hospital-Physician Cooperation
• Once Again, Real Life Stranger Than Fiction
• Win $5,000 for Your Disruptive Innovation
• Living Wills Need a Life of Their Own
• Asleep May Be Our Most Productive Time
• RWHC Nursing Excellence Award Winners
• How to Connect with Community?

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - May, 2007 

• Small Numbers Matter
• Role of Transfers Key to Measures of Quality
• More Health Care Isn’t Same as Better Care
• How Doctors Think, or Sometimes Don’t
• Yes, Virginia, Childhood Obesity Is Real
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - April, 2007 

• Mission Based Dental School‹Why Not WI?
• Nycz Inducted into NACHC Hall of Fame
• Not You, Not Me, Tax the Man Behind the Tree
• Physician Shortage Slams Rural Economy
• Primary Care Income Gap Driving Shortage
• Rural Development Must Punch Holes in Silos
• Rural Lost in Complex Federal Designations
• Questions Are the Answer
• WI Health Careers 2007 Summer Camps
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - March, 2007 

• Rural Needs to Get the Lead Out
• Job Not Done Until Prevention is Mainstream
• Nap—Life You Save May Be Your Own
• Pharmacist Shortage, an Inconvenient Truth
• Rural America at a Glance
• WI Rural RN Program National Best Practice
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - February, 2007 

• $1 M Invested in Strong Rural Communities
• “No Hospital Is an Island”
• Good Hires Are No Accident
• Turning Kids On to Rural Health Careers
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - January, 2007 

• Next Generation Can’t Afford Our Inaction
• Medicine in Search of Meaning…a spiritual journey for physicians
• Big Business Embraces Prevention Imperative
• Practical Guidelines for Employee Wellness
• Hospitals & the Public’s Health
• Hatfields & McCoys Can Partner
• Are You Taking Full Advantage of RAC?
• Eye On Health Cartoons

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2006

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - December, 2006 

• Newly Muscular Middle to Define Agenda
• Effective Advocates Dream With Open Eyes
• Airlines Not Best Role Model for Healthcare
• Building a High Performance Culture
• Medicine in Search of Meaning… a spiritual journey for physicians
• Community Health Consultation Services
• RWHC Approved Vendor of CAHPS Hospital Surveys
• RWHC Rural Health Essay Competition-15th Annual ($1,000 Prize - April 15 Deadline)
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - November, 2006 

• Rural Must Face Risk of Privatizing Medicare
• RWHC Licensing Rural Health Careers Web Site
• A Credible Roadmap for “System” Reform
• Awesome Online Resource on Rural Issues
• Work Site Wellness Key to a Healthy State
• RWHC Offers Patient Satisfaction Surveys
• 10 Tips for Establishing Quality Improvement Programs
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - October, 2006 

• Rural Jobs Need New Rural Health Strategy
• Risk Factors Drive County Life Expectancy
• A New Story in the Rio Grande Valley
• Rural Will Exceed Rising Expectations
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - August & September, 2006 

• Go Past Political Labels to Recharge America
• Our Future Requires Redefined Town-Gown
• Max Health, Min Cost Is a Multi-Sector Job
• Medicaid: Balancing Care, Coverage & Cost
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - July 1, 2006 

• Payers Not Waiting for “Healthcare Reform”
• Feds Need to Invest in Traditional Medicare
• Strong Rural Communities: Made Not Born
• It Takes a Community
• RWHC ‘06 Rural Health Ambassador Awards
• A Real Wisconsin Rural Health Hero
• The RWHC 2006 Monato Essay Prize Winner
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - June 1, 2006 

• The Price of Rural Health Care
• Trust Counts Now More Than Ever
• “Local-Market Bias” or Healthcare Offshore?
• Price Transparency Needs to Lose Cataracts
• Rural Health Fellows Program
• The Case for Consumerism from the Trenches
• WI Leaders Receive Top National Honors
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - May 1, 2006 

• Physicians Tomorrow Requires Action Now
• TeleHealth—Making Barriers Matter Less
• America Awash in Excess Certitude
• Health Savings Accounts a Tool, No Cure All
• Like Roosevelt: Reform the Market to Save It
• Rural America is Not the Absence of Urban
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - April 2, 2006 

• Leadership Development for Rural Health
• Meth Is No Lake Woebegone
• Medicare Prescription Drugs in the Heartland
• Medicare Drug Benefit Basics
• Contemporary Issues in Rural Healthcare
• Rural Health Essay Prize
• NRHA Annual Conference
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - March 1, 2006 

• Some Is Not a Number; Soon Is Not a Time
• Health Information Technology Conundrum
• Not About Change but Organizational Agility
• Improving Health One Community at a Time
• On Becoming a Radical Moderate
• Finding Rural Health Careers in Wisconsin
• Contemporary Issues in Rural Healthcare
• Rural Health Essay Prize
• NRHA Annual Conference
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - February 1, 2006 

• Ten Enduring Ideas for Organizational Health
• A Growing Threat to Hospital Mission
• Paying For Hospitals’ Community Service
• Rural Health, the “Mouse” that Roared
• Rural Communities Address Meth Production
• Changing Ageist Assumptions re Retirement
• What Policies Support Rural Collaboration?
• RWHC Offering CAHPS Hospital Survey
• Rural Health $1,000 Essay Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - January 1st, 2006 

• Rural Can Keep the “Person” in “Patient”
• Reform: Go Beyond Treating Symptoms
• The Business Case For Investing In Health
• Growing Your Own (Leadership)
• STATISTICS FOR DUMMIES
• Rural Health $1,000  Essay Prize  
• Eye On Health Cartoons

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2005

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - December 1, 2005 

• Oral Health, Healthcare’s Neglected Stepchild
• Rural Wisconsin Hospital Wins Top Honor
• Rural Health Disparities Don’t Always Count
• Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
• "Eye On Health" Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - November 1, 2005 

• Old Rivalry Distracts from Common Need
• Medicare’s New Prescription Drug Benefit
• Wisconsin’s Part D Helplines
• Rural Information Technology Update
• Congress & Rural Policy Makers Listening?
• "Eye On Health" Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - October 1, 2005 

• Rural Advocates Mustn’t Become Complacent
• Big Ugly Rural Trends
• Strong Rural Communities Initiative Update
• Business Taking Up Population Health
• RWHC “HIT” Takes Major Step Forward
• “Eye On Health” Cartoons
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SEPTEMBER-GONE FISHING

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - August 1st, 2005 

• U.S.—Midwest Relations
• Class Bias: Doing What Comes Naturally?
• Health, Community & Race
• Physician Shortage Hits Rural First & Worst
• Medical Schools’ Rural Attitude Matters
• CAHs Mirror Overall Hospital Trends
• Malpractice Caps Help Rural Communities
• “Eye On Health” Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - July 1, 2005 

• STRONG RURAL COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE PROPOSALS DUE JULY 31ST
• They Should Cost $100 a Pack
• Rural America is More than Cows & Corn
• Need $2.5 Billion? Get Serious About Diabetes
• Fred Moskol Receives Top National Honor
• Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine
• Saving 100,000 Lives By June 2006
• Make Use of the Rural Assistance Center
• RWHC 2005 Rural Health Ambassadors
• 2005 Monato Essay Prize Winner
• Wisconsin Rural Partners Worth a Look
• A Wisconsin Boy Tells His Story
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - June 1, 2005 

• Medical Schools Need Rural Input
• Oppose Medicare Rural Construction Ban
• Get the Bias Out of Public Reporting
• The 2005 Nursing Excellence Award Winners
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - May 5, 2005 
This issue of Eye On Health is from “Collaborations to Enhance Community and Population Well-Being,” a chapter in The 2005 Report to the Secretary:Rural Health and Human Service Issues by the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health & Human Services.

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - April 1, 2005 

• Collaborative Leadership Matters
• Hospitals as Community Builders
• In Memoriam: Ron Shaffer (1945 – 2005)
• Hospitals Designated as Medicare Critical Access Hospitals Now Serve Over 1,000 Communities
• Rural Dental Access Continues Blocked
• Medicare $$$ Attract National Health Plans
• No Chocolate Chip Cookies Without The Chips
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - March 1, 2005 

• Some Is Not a Number. Soon Is Not a Time
• RWHC—Advisory Board Partnership
• Diabetes Plan Meaningless Without Action
• Competitors Collaborate to Take on Diabetes
• A Dialogue on Rural "Pay-For-Perfmance"
• Boomers Not Quickly/Quietly into the Night
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - February 1, 2005 

• What Does America Want From Its Congress?
• Getting Kids Through School Is HealthCare
• Rural Health Is An Economic Engine
• Leapfrog Shifts To Leverage Health Plans
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - January 1, 2005 

• Public Reporting: Arrogance vs. Indifference?
• Insurers Reinvent Selves or Government Will
• Chronic Illness & Best Community Practices
• Fiscal Impact of State Aging Trends
• Eye On Health Cartoons

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 2004

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - November 1st, 2004 

• Developing Shared Electronic Health Records
• U.S. Quality Agenda Neglects Excess Use
• Mentoring Next Generation of Rural Nurses
• Obesity Hard to Cure: Prevention a Must
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - October 1st, 2004 

• Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine
• Ad-Hoc Training of Docs Doesn’t Do It
• Emerging Bipartisan View Healthcare is Sick
• Consumer Directed Care Only to Shift Costs?
• Shawano Initiative To Help Farm Families
• Dr Smith’s Amazon Report
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - September 1st, 2004 

• Your “Skin” in the Insurance “Game”?
• Adding Primary Care Lowers Overall Costs
• Healthier America One Community at a Time
• Communities Organize Against #1 Killer
• Update: Rural Health Works 
• Rears
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - August 1st, 2004 

• Healthcare—The ‘Calm’ Before the Storm
• Healthcare Transformation & Odd Bedfellows
• Health Insurance Market Doing Self In?
• Giving Rural Kids Something to Smile About
• Rural Do & Can Meet Quality Standards
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - July 1st, 2004 

• Non-Rabid Partisans Don’t Get No Respect
• Maintaining Essential Rural Providers
• We Divide Value When We Need To Make It
• Health Care Future Requires New Thinking
• New Front on Health Costs: Healthy Workers
• E-Commerce No Longer Just for Nerds
• Blueprint for Community Builders
• Science Finally Proves Men’s Ties Are Dumb
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - June 1st, 2004 

• A Wired Future for Rural Health Networks
• A Consumer Role In Care Requires Literacy
• Balanced Scorecards & Population Health
• Community Health Improvement Support
• Catholics Advocates Economic Development
• WISC Health Center Grows Its Community
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - May 1st, 2004 

• Wisconsin Can Choose Healthier Communities
• Rural Hospitals Get Real About Prevention
• Higher Ratio of Specialists Lowers Quality
• WI Leadership Calls For Med School Reform
• The 2004 RWHC Nurse Excellence Awards
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - April, 2004 

• RWHC Honors Rural Health Ambassadors
• Managed Care: Nightmare or Opportunity?
• Restructure GME to Train Rural Physicians
• Hard to Hit Targets You Don’t See
• Knowing Rights/Responsibility vs Suing Rights
• Research Matters to You & Your Heart
• Cooperative Business Model Aids Rural
• Synergy Between Advocacy & Shared Services
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - March, 2004 

• Metros Value FQHC Partnership—Rural Next?
• We Fail To Offer Kids Basic Dental Care
• Health Insurance Reform—Promises & Pitfalls
• Medicare Reform—“Let The Tweaking Begin.”
• Rural Nurse Leaders Redesign Work
• Half CAH New Benefit—Not From Medicare
• Dr Smith Back In Amazon Clinic
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - February, 2004 

• Physician Workforce Reform Long Over-Due
• Calling for Equality of Care Opportunities
• Look for Savings Where Costs Greatest
• Federal Reserve Focus on Rural Health
• Raucous Times Favor Collaboration
• Corporate Culture/Management Matters
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter- January, 2004 

• Our Understanding Can Lead to Action
• Small Businesses Face Complex Choices
• AARP Responds to Medicare Bill Critics 
• RWHC Annual Rural Health Essay Prize 
• RWHC Internet Connectivity & Security 
• Has Your Hospital Linked to the Breast Cancer Recovery Foundation? 
• Badgers Need to Catch up with Flatlanders
• Eye On Health Cartoons

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2003

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - December, 2003 

• Why Medicare Bill Should Pass
• Rurals’ Greater Need for Medicare Drug Benefit
• Consumer Driven & Employers Cutting Losses
• Defined Contribution Plan Explosion Predicted
• Paying For Quality—Policy Elite Speaks Up
• Balancing Individual & Community Health
• Rural Life Stile
• Eye On Health Cartoons 

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - November, 2003 

• Editorial: Defining Access To Care
• Rural In The Midwest Means Less Access To Health Care & Worse Health
• Wisconsin Can Improve Its Outcomes
• Rural Is Not Rural Is Not Urban
• Rural In The Eye Of The Beholder
• Fancy Footwork
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - October, 2003 

• Medicare: Defined Benefit Or Contribution?
• National Health Reform Needs To Follow The Money
• Wonk, Wonkless, Read An Epidemic Of Care
• Radicalizing the Middle
• Quality: How Much Are We Like Widgets?
• Putting Wheels On Suitcases
• Hug Your Rural Doc & Support Externships
• RWHC 12th Annual Rural Health Essay Prize
• Beyond Frontier, Rural Health Amazon Style
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, September, 2003 

• A Vision for the Future of Rural Health?
• We Can’t Improve What We Don’t See
• Focusing on Variation in Medical Practice
• Jury Out on Consumer Driven Health Plans
• Enough Already Re Liability Insurers
• New Report on How Networks Add Value
• Passion Is No Excuse for Political Excess
• Eye On Health Cartoons

Gone Fishing, No August Newsletter

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - July, 2003  

• Drive For Medicare Equity Has Deep Roots
• Evolving The Rural Safety Net Strategy
• RWHC Quality Improvement Capacity Model
• Dietary Past Part Of Today’s Health Crisis
• Doctor Smith Goes To Town Amazon Style
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - June, 2003  

• Ignore Small Business Struggle At Your Peril
• Minnesotan Frames Health Reform Issues
• President Proposes Medicare Experiment
• Rural Best Practices Not Always Small Urban
• Home Grown & Deadlier Than Cigarettes
• Warm Drippy Nose Replaces Cold Needle
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - May, 2003  

• Rural Hospitals & FQHCs Form Alliance
• Supreme Court Allows For Fair Competition
• WHA Gives Leadership Award To Sen. Dale Schultz
• Insurance Self-Advocacy Guidebook On-Line
• RWHC Congratulates Harold Brown
• How Do We Address Competition’s Dark Side?
• Medicare Rural-Urban Equity Goes From Bad To Worse
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - April, 2003  

• Our Communities Feel Medicare Shortchange
• STOP The Proposed Elimination Of Wisconsin Medicaid Rural Equity Payments
• WI Small Employer Pool: Fish Or Cut Bait
• Wisconsin Adopts A Population Health Focus
• What You Can Do To Improve Population Health
• Wisconsin’s Shame, Family Medicine Residencies Sit Empty
• Uninsured Rates Affect All Of Us
• RWHC 11th Annual Rural Health Essay Prize Deadline Is April 15th
• Antismoking Measures —The Perfect Storm
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, March, 2003  

• Arguing For Rural Community Hospitals
• Fed. Way: Higher Quality = Lower Payment
• Public-Private Partnership For Recruitment
• Tools For Improving Partnership Synergy
• The Rural Lie—Media, Perceptions & Policy
• Fiscal Chicken’s Coming Home
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - February, 2003  

• Mega-HMOs Set To Invade Rural America?
• Insurance For Small Employers
• RWHC WAN To Receive Telecom Subsidy
• End Of The Drug Company Kick-Back?
• Rural Dentists Don’t Grow In the Fields
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - January, 2003  

• Bioterrorism Prep Requires Collaboration
• Boomers Begin To Drive Work Redesign
• Can This Health Insurance System Survive?
• Rural Wisconsin Staff Recruitment Initiated
• Rural IT Requires Collaboration & Funding
• One Person Can Make A Difference
• Cooperatives Mimic Slime Mold
• Eye On Health Cartoons

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 2002

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - December, 2002

• New Road To Rural Political Effectiveness?
• A Champion For Medicare Equity
• Focus On Quality Could Bring Bonus
• Health Care Consumerism—The Next Wave?
• Regional Maternity QI Collaboration
• RWHC Wide Area Network and Data Center
• Work To Do While Debating Medicare
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - November, 2002

• Health Insurance Fails The Heartland
• Health Insurance Mess—Private Sector Fix?
• Health Insurance Mess—Public Sector Fix?
• CAHs—Medicare Giveth, Medicare Taketh?
• Dental Status Quo Maintains Status Quo
• Active Work Once A Day Keeps Doctor Away
• American Gothic—The Ongoing Stereotypes
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - October, 2002

• Rethinking Rural Health Advocacy
• Subsidize MDs as Needed, Not Med. Schools
• Small Employer Crisis: “While Rome Burns”
• Admissions Of Two Serial Pollsters
• RWHC Quality Program Gets National Plug
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter -  September, 2002

• Rural Health Can Help Lead The Way
• Tommy Thompson’s Real Rural Legacy?
• Real Solutions Look At Big Picture
• Current Dental Crisis Worsening
• Informal Caregivers Key Part Of Workforce
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - August, 2002 (Went Fishing)

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, July, 2002 

• Argument For Rural Community Hospitals
• People Choose Health Security Over Tax Cuts
• Rurals Aren’t Exempt From Bioterrorism
• Wisconsin Health Alert Network
• The Smallpox Vaccination Debate
• Complex Problems Require Collaboration
• Real Brat Is Boiled, Grilled & Then Stewed
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - June, 2002

• Luxury Politics Of An Academic Islander”
• Read Or Reread This Classic On Leadership
• Medicare Tax Not Sustainable
• Quality Model From Unlikely Place
• A Cooperative Advantage In Cyberspace
• Requiem for Hal
• Making Quality Of Care Better
• Learning In And From Aging Americans
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - May, 2002

• Rurals Ask For New Federal Relationship
• Mental Health Major Challenge On The Farm
• Partners in Agricultural Health
• Mainstream Hospital Journal Supports Parity
• We Have More To Learn About Cooperation
• 2002 RWHC Nursing Excellence Award s
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - April, 2002

• The Rural Community Hospital Assistance Act
• Permissible Vs. Suspect Lab Competition?
• MD—Conflict, Coexistence, or Capitulation?
• Community Development Tips From Ireland
• Your Chance For Good Health Care
• Wisconsin Again A National Innovator
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - March, 2002

• Triangulating Greed, Marketing & Hope
• An Alternative To High Cost & Low Quality?
• The SUV-ification of U.S. Health Care?
• Rural Medicare Initiative Whose Time Is Now
• Defined-Contribution Plans—The Next Wave?
• Beyond Generic Gender Health Care
• Academic Hoops Know No Boundaries
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - February, 2002

• Medical School Leadership Matters
• First 2002 Shot Across Medicare Equity Bow
• State Bipartisan Leadership Matters
• "Walking Away Not An Option"
• The Health Care System: At Least Not Boring
• Value Purchasing—Work In Progress
• Aspirin A Day If Doctor Says OK
• Earning A Diploma Amazon Style
• Eye On Health Cartoons\

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - January, 2002

• Terrorism Defense—Doing The Job At Home
• Red Cross & Hospitals Parting Company?
• Medicare Board Needs Rural Voices
• CAH & BIPA Counter BBA
• Health Care Expenditures, How Is Wisconsin Doing?
• The Hidden Driver of Great Performance
• Eye On Health Cartoons

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 2001

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - December, 2001

• Medicare Reform Inevitable, Its Shape Isn’t
• Rural Take Needed On Medicare Reform
• Rural Medicare Payment Fixes Decimal Dust
• Blood Just Business To Red Cross
• Lessons From For-Profit Networks
• Safer Health Care Starts With Common Sense
• RWHC Quality Program Available Nationally
• HIPAA Collaborative Of Wisconsin
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - November, 2001

• Quality Data Needed About Quality Of Care
• Wisconsin Rated High For Quality Of Care
• Will Insurers Block Small Business Proposal?
• Midwest, Medicare & HMOs
• Michael Decker Wins ACHE-WI Honors
• RWHC Virtual Network
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - October, 2001

• Not Rural To Urban But Rural-Urban To Fringe
• Secretary Thompson True To His Rural Roots
• More Health Insurance Hikes Predicted
• Wisconsin Needs To Plan Its Future Workforce
• The Role Of Quality Report Cards?
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - September, 2001

• Medicare Future Hung Up On Political Fence
• Losing The Ethic Of Caring For Your Neighbor?
• Changing Health Plan, Physician Relationships
• So, Why Choose To Be A Rural Doctor?
• Public Thanks, Whether Fred Wants It Or Not
• The Job Of Leadership: Inspire Commitment
• Critical Access Hospital Map For Wisconsin
• At Least Some Tobacco $ Fights Tobacco Use
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - August, 2001

• What Is Needed Next For Medicare?
• Thompson Brings Science To Patient Safety
• Errors-Why We Don’t Act & How We Can?
• Regional Consortium Makes A Difference
• Wisconsin Ready To Move On Dental Crisis
• "Rural" In The UW Plan; Action To Follow?
• Beginning To Regret What We Wished For?
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - June, 2001 

• We Must Stand For Rural Reality, Not Myths
• Raising The Bar For Provider
• Success Demands Touch And High Tech
• Warm Hearts Build Healthy Bodies
• Lessons From The For-Profit Networks
• RWHC Hospital 1st As Exemplary Employer
• Student’s "Life In the Box" Awarded $1,000
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - May, 2001

• RWHC Nursing Excellence Award Winners
• REACH For Rural America
• Medicare Redesign: Ask The Rural Questions
• Small Businesses Expect State Insurance Fix
• Backlash Or Accessing Needed Labor?
• Rural Counties Need Proactive Med. Schools
• Our Great Failure—Rural Dental Health
• Nonprofits Are Fundamental To Who We Are
• A Friend To Rural Communities Moves On
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - April, 2001

• Non-Profits Fighting Threat To Mission
• Historic Medicare Payment Bias Recognized
• Work Force Shortage & Civil Disobedience
• Work Force Shortage & Vocational Training
• Less Competition Among Health Insurers?
• A Conflicted Public View Of Health Care
• Rural Environmental Scan
• A Voice Of Hope About The Next Four Years
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - March, 2001

• Medicare Accountability–"First Do No Harm"
• MD Recruitment From Developing Nations?
• Excessive Tax Cuts Threaten Medicare
• The Rural Interest In Medicare Reform
• In Quality Matters, Rural Not Small Urban
• Medicare Isn’t The Only Federal Program
• Core Rural Health Resources & Contacts
• Wisconsin’s BadgerCare In The Limelight
• Rural Teleconferences That Actually Work
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - February, 2001

• Fair Medicare Payments Are Not Subsidies
• Improving Quality No Longer Just Academic
• Individual Blindness To System Failure
• Living Is Also About Preparing For Loss
• End Of Life Care Principles
• Competitive Threat To Rural Infrastructure
• Rural Hospital Gets Governor’s Top Award
• $1000 Monato Prize
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - January, 2001

• Rural Hospitals Proposing Medicare Reform
• Debate On Market Reforms Requested
• Employers To Drop Insurance Broker Role?
• Sowing Seeds Of Hope
• Texas Uses Tobacco To Support Rural Health
• RWHC CVO NCQA Recertified
• Effective Advocacy Is Belief Driven
• Piedra Negra
• Eye On Health Cartoons

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 2000

• HIPAA = Y2K x 100
• Drug Spending Driving Insurance Increases
• National Campaign For Rural Hospitals
• HMOs Out Of Steam Or Just Getting Ready?
• Helping Uninsured Helps Bottom Line
• Wild Rose Cited As National CAH Model
• Read Fine Print Before Going Whole Hog
• EOH Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - November, 2000

• Wisconsin Proposes End To Wage Index Bias
• Election Debate—Promises Without Reality
• Cost Control Kitchen Just Got A Lot Hotter
• Health Care Rationing—Not In My Backyard
• Employee Benefits, A Consumer Approach
• Rural Nurses Now Learn From Home
• Health Care & Policy, A Clash Of Cultures
• Demand Is For High Tech & High Touch
• National Rural Health 2001 Policy Institute
• Critical Access Hospital Update
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - October, 2000

• Health Care Dilemma For Politicians
• The Political Dilemma for Providers
• Grass Roots Medicare Suits Continue
• Sound Bites Mislead On Drug Coverage
• Capital Short For Electronic Med. Orders
• Targeted Relief – The Health Services Corp
• Cooperatives -- A Proud Wisconsin Tradition
• Rural Immunizations In The Tropics
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - August, 2000

• Local Health Care Strengthens Communities
• Medicare Justice Will Take a Bit Longer
• Rural Issues Getting More Serious Face Time
• The Perfect Storm--Part II
• System Failure Hits Small Employers Hardest
• Stand Alone Hospitals Back In Fashion
• Competition Going Under The Microscope
• WISC Network for Health Policy Research
• Eye Examine Rules Out Pit Viper
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - July, 2000

• What America Thinks About The Uninsured
• A Major Unknown Resource For Uninsured
• The Election Needs To Be About Governing
• Putting Unfair Medicare Payments On Table
• Medicare & Rural Hospitals: A Visual Update
• The Hedgehog and the Fox
• Rural/Urban Differences Vary Substantially
• The Wisconsin Healthy Heart Diet
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - June, 2000

• Health Care Safety Net Endangered
• Statewide Medicare Initiative Pays Off
• Another Medicare Wage Glitch Hurts Rural
• RWHC Employment Opportunities
• Rural Health Apprenticeship Opportunities
• Wisconsin Coalition Aims At Medical Errors
• The Value of Community Pharmacists
• How To Start A Cooperative
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - May, 2000

• RWHC Nurse Excellence Award
• Partners In Agricultural Health
• Telecommunications Designed For CAHs
• Wisconsin Using Anti-Rural Federal Index
• When We Win Medicare Equity, What Next?
• 1st Medicare Justice Coalition Court Hearing
• A Proposal to Save Rural Home Health
• RWHC Seeks Health Information Manager
• Bucky Badger’s Amazonian Transformation
• Ed Harding the Administrator at Columbus
• Online Glossary for Health Care Policy
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - April, 2000

• Medicare Fairness Rebellion Spreads
• HMOs, Other Plans, More Alike Than Not
• Elderly Dig Deep To Pay For Medical Care
• Popular Perception Wrong Re Drug Costs
• Lifestyle Enhancement Or Basic Healthcare?
• Strong & Stoic Can Be Bad For Your Health
• Giant, Competing Businesses Network
• Bureaucracy Knows No Geography
• Seinfeldists Develop Academic Discipline
• American Healers In Need Of Healing
• Eye On Health Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - March, 2000

• Large Urban Hospitals Double Down Rurals
• Medicare Redistribution Must Go Both Ways
• Two Lobbies That Really Deserve Each Other
• Vanishing HMOs Abandon Rural Residents
• Not Exactly Walking The Talk
• Employees To Get Health Plan Choice & Cost?
• Consumers Will Use Data About Providers
• Virtual Healthcare Becoming Reality
• Not A Virtual HMO, But Mean
• Eye On Health Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - February, 2000

• Purchasers Not Buying Behavioral Change
• Good Medicine Is Good Business
• Listening To Insured Workers
• Into The Looking Glass--An Investor’s View
• WI Credit Assessment Program Renewed
• False & Real Threats To Social Security
• Too Few Hospital Beds?
• Rural Clot Busters
• Wheelchair--The Sequel
• Bringing Heart & Soul Back Into Medicine
• A Guy’s View Of E-Mail
• Rural Leaders Again The Early Innovators
• Eye On Health cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - January, 2000

• Midwest Based Medicare Rebellion Spreads
• Medicare Justice Coalition--How We Got Here?
• BadgerCare--WI Legislature’s Work Not Done
• Tobacco Money--Even New York Gets It Right
• Loose Guns--The Tobacco Issue For 2000?
• In A Shrinking World, AIDS Growth Chilling
• Illegal Drug Labs Invest Rural Wisconsin
• Mammography Task Force Update
• Racial Effects On Life Expectancy
• UW Medical School Seeks Rural & Community Leadership
• The Wheelchair-Part I
• Beyond Rural, Beyond Frontier, Is Jungle
• RWHC Seeks EMS ConsultantEye On Health cartoons

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1999

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - December, 1999

• Seniors At Bat: Challenge Medicare’s Constitutionality
• Seniors Rebel-The Big Picture
• The Beginning Of Pro- Rural Health Congress?
• More Miracle Drugs Fewer Can Afford
• How Good Is Health Care For Your Health?
• RWHC & JCAHO Have "Spirited" Debate
• MD Barriers To Using Clinical Guidelines
• For Colds/Flu, TLC Is Often The Prescription
• 10 Steps To Increase BadgerCare Enrollment
• No Ifs or Buts, Get the Yellow Book Update
• RWHC Hospital Wins Major Quality Award
• Dean of Rural Hospital CEOs Honored
• EOH Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - November, 1999

• Is It 200,000 or 600,000 Wisconsin Uninsured?
• Health Care Reform in the Washington Post
• Health Care Reform in the New York Times
• For-Profit Health Care--The Dark Side
• Beyond a Sound Bite, What Is Community?
• Communities Reclaiming For-Profit Castoffs
• Thinking Locally, Acting Globally
• Any of Us May Become Health Care Workers
• We Must Detect Breast Cancer Earlier
• State Has Primo Health Consumer WWW Site
• EOH Cartoons

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - October, 1999

• Why Fewer Rural Medicare Benefits?
• Strong Backing for Medicare Equity Claims
• Co-op Month Supports Rural Women’s Health
• Healthcare: A Lot Is Useless, Much Isn’t Done
• Business & Health Leaders on Same Planet
• Employment-Based Health Benefits Update
• HMO Customer Ratings Fall
• Nonprofits & Technology Funding
• The Ultimate Practical How-To Web Site
• How Do you Know Web Info Is Any Good?
• EOH Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - September, 1999

• A Strong Argument for Rural Independence
• "Could We Just Sort Of Legislate?"
• The Case for a Patients' Bill of Rights
• Too Much Privacy Hazardous to Your Health
• Medicare--Same Old, Same Old
• Health Poor for Workers Out of ViewSelf-Employed BadgerCare Access Improved
• Want to Live Longer?--Location Matters
• Mega-Web Link List
• PHYTOPHOTODERMATITIS
• EOH Cartoons

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - August, 1999

• Will Medicare Vouchers Work for Rural?
• Rural Hospital Plight Taken to the U.S. Senate
• "Right" to be Elected Trumps Patients’ Rights
• Late BadgerCare Applicants May Lose Out
• Local Teenage Actors Reaching Other Teens
• Statewide Satellite Dialogue to Help Kids
• Spirituality, Medicine & Advocacy
• Ethics Consultation for Rural Providers
• Women-Ask Questions & Live Healthier
• A Snap Shot of Rural History/Future
• Use BlueCross Monies Off Campus, Over Time
• EOH Cartoons\

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - July, 1999

• State Leadership Needed for Purchasing Pools
• Managed Care Is More than Managed Costs
• Same Quality Standards but in Rural Context
• Wilensky Calls for Select Medicare Increases
• Clinton’s Medicare Reform--More of the Same?
• What is Choice Worth?
• Medicare Fee-For-Service or Managed Care?
• Change in Federal Definition of Rural Areas?
• The Superior CEO: A Profile
• A Self-Test For CEOsStaring into Coffee
• Eye On Health Cartoon

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - June, 1999

• Uninsured & Small Employers Closely Linked
• Politicians Fiddle as Number Uninsured Grow
• Rural Sympathy Scarce for Teaching Hospitals
• Angry Seniors Preparing Medicare Equity Suit
• Health Care Quality Demands Improvement
• Are We More than Our Repairable Parts?
• Leadership Training Available By Satellite
• Institute of Medicine Backs Collaboration
• Health & Safety Needs Real Communities
• Internet Now the Gardener's Best Friend

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - May, 1999

• Health Insurance Pools Make Good Sense
• Collaborating for Appropriate Antibiotics Use
• Federal Dollars Not Dumping from Rural Sky
• A Rural Challenge to Enroll BadgerCare Kids
• How Many Ways Can You Say Unsustainable?
• The Changing Face of Medicare
• Shortage of Rural Physicians Is Solvable
• Not Laughing--Right Frontal Lobe Challenged?
• Transforming How We See Transforming
• WI PT of the Year Serves Rural & Urban Alike
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - April, 1999

• Domestic Violence In Our Back Yard
• Creative Organizations Just Don't Happen
• A RWHC Service Passes Major Hurdle
• Test Your Rural Health IQ
• RWHC Forming Speakers Bureau
• New Mega-Health Site On Web
• "Ask Marilyn" Answers The "Unanswerable"
• Learning Life's Last Competency
• Living Wills And Power Of Attorney On Web
• Title Creep
• Pagan Rurals Named The Days Of The Week
• Eye On Health Cartoon

 RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - March, 1999 

• WI Communities Need State AHEC Support
• Medicare Fails to Consider Rural Impact\
• HMOs Will Have Less Incentive to Avoid Sick
• Health Plans Get Boost in Some Counties
• Play to Strengths, Address Weaknesses
• Telemedicine--Beyond Email
• WI Providers Need to Help "Sell" BadgerCare
• Doc Hollywood, Part II
• The National Rural Health Resource Center
• RWHC Members In News Doing Good
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - February, 1999

• Enough Already, Feds Approve BadgerCare
• Drug Companies & Elderly Face-off on Medicare
• Medicare's Management Crisis Hurts Us All
• Market Questions For-Profit Managed Care
• HMOs Match Traditional Insurance Increases
• Does Wisconsin Intend to Hurt Small Business?
• RWHC's New Office Now a Reality
• WI Coalition for Health Insurance Reform
• Physician Practice Styles Effect Health Status
• Beyond Experts, Stories That Heal
• Today's Organizations Require New Skills
• Touchy Feely or Pragmatic Management?
• HMOs & Public Health Can Collaborate
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - January, 1999 

• Rose Bowl Fever Sweeps Countryside
• Long Term Care Reform--a Rural View
• WDC Rural Advocacy Critical in 1999
• RWHC--A Quick Twenty Years
• Why Wisconsin is Wisconsin
• Competitors Can Collaborate Around Quality
• Medicare Critical Access Hospital Program
• Growing Beyond Grumbling & Griping
• RWHC WWW Site as Internet Starting Point
• Hear AMA's Historic Opposition to Merger
• Researchers, Please Don't Change Your Mind
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1998

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - December 1st, 1998

• Rural Health's Future Keeps Changing
• Rural Seniors, Get Mad--Location Matters
• $2 Billion State Shortfall
• Your County's Medicare Options on Internet
• Small Firms Hard Hit by Premium Increases
• Purchasing Pools Can Make a Difference
• WI Coalition for Health Insurance Reform
• 1st Stark Opinion Focuses on Rural Exception
• Crashes - #1 Killer of America's Kids
• 1st Rural Medicare HMO, Leader or Anomaly?
• Rural HMOs Spreading-the Implications?
• HMOs--Problem or Symptom?
• Rural Population Surging
• All Things Bright, Beautiful, Great & Small
• Eye On Health cartoon

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - November 1st, 1998

• HMOs-Evolution Or Extinction?
• Gatekeeping-Jury Is Still Out
• Small Businesses Bear Brunt Rate Increases
• Americans Without Insurance Up Again
• Rurals Shouldn't Sell Selves Cheaply
• Non-Profit Rural Hospitals Good Investment
• This Year's Attack On Rural Funding
• Why Is Wisconsin Last In Federal Spending?
• Making a Child's Life on Farm Safer
• Chiropractors--The "Invisible" Rural Providers
• Suicide Is Male Illness & Can Be Treated
• WI AHEC System's Grass Roots
• Collaboration Can Be Pain In Back
• $1,000 for Best Rural Health Essay
• Tip for Graying Computer Users
• This Newsletter Now Available Via Email
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter - October 1st, 1998

• Graying Wisconsin Leads to Growing Conflict
• Where is Ken Starr When We Do Need Him?
• Rural Principles for Rural Medicare Reform
• Medicare HMOs on Sick List
• HMO Backlash Fed by Lack of Plan Choices?
• Stages of Maturation In Health Promotion
• Rural Initiatives Reduce Cost of Borrowing
• Agreement on Medicare Wage Index Reached
• Are Patient Report Cards Worth Anything?
• Cooperatives Part of Wisconsin's Economy
• New Option for Rural
• Rural Advocates & Information Age Issues
• Eye On Health

RWHC Newsletter - September, 1998

• 41 Million Uninsured with a Strong Economy
• Medicare's Rural Wage Bias, Chapter 99
• Caution Advised Re Rural Medicare HMOs
• New Payment Option For Rural Hospitals
• Hospitals' Assisted-Living Opportunity?
• All HMOs Are Not Equal
• Cooperative Technical Assistance on Web
• Local Control Matters, But How?
• Deinstitutionalization's Unfinished Business
• RWHC Competency Program
• Turning Point to Proceed
• Larry Nine's Honored for 15 Years' Service
• Rural Health/Economics Video Available
• Natural Network vs. Individual Tensions
• Eye On Health Cartoon

 RWHC Newsletter - August, 1998

• Medicare Sausage from Rural Road Kill
• Dog Bites Man--Only Healthy Need Apply
• HMO Reform or Election Year Posturing?
• HMO Reform or Not, Ask Questions
• HMO Mecca Calls for Increasing Choice
• Medicine Is Still First About People
• Warning of Non-Profit Backlash
• Community of Spectators is No Community
• NRHA Works to Expand Who Is at the Table
• Rural Telehealth Applications Up
• For Corporate Health, Encourage Dissent
• RWHC Moving to Independence Trail
• RWHC Cuts Provider/HMO Paper Work
• Choosing Fragmentation or Cooperation
• Eye On Health Cartoon

 RWHC Newsletter - July, 1998

• Question of Patient Choice
• Health Marts in Future?
• Insurance Reform for Small Business
• HMO Reform & Politics
• Competition Requires Risk Adjustment
• Phone Companies Attack Rural Subsidy
• Rural Physicians Are Risk-Sharing
• Women's Health Fair, August 15th
• Ten Ways to Successfully Ruin A Board
• Collaboration Jazz
• Model Long Term Care System
• Attitude Matters
• Monato Essay Prize Awarded
• Congratulations Richland Center
• Haney Moves Up Food Chain
• Message Here?
• Diverse World of Cooperatives
• Eye On Health Cartoon

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RWHC Newsletter - May, 1998

• Darwin, Congress & Slopping Hogs
• Rural Advocacy--No Time for Laurels
• NRHA Current Policy Papers On-line
• Rural Archive of Maps On-line
• "Keep Friends Close, Enemies Closer"
• Columbia/HCA--Scapegoat or Criminal?
• Wisconsin Outlaws Midnight Hospital Raids
• Call for Nonprofits to Heal Themselves
• Declining Occupancy Rates Bottoming Out?
• Rural Health Policy Discussion Group
• Grant Funds for Local Access Projects
• "Just the Facts, Mam"
• The Mother of All Search Engines
• JAMA Adds Women's Health Site On-line
• Federal Web Site for Telehealth Subsidies
• Violent Images--Cause or Effect?
• New Health Insurance Tax Deductions?
• Eye On Health cartoon

 RWHC Newsletter - April, 1998

• Health Care Competition Is Also About Jobs
• USA Today Weighs In for the Uninsured
• Rural Kept Uninsured Three Times Longer
• Ron Kind (WI) to Monitor Medicare Reform
• Perspective Of A Medicare Commissioner
• Acceleration of Buyer Demands
• W.W.II Freeze Effects Competition Today
• The Struggle for Power in Managed Care
• Closed Neighbor Doesn't Help the Survivors
• Annual Meetings--Not Just Cheesehead Hats
• Act Now to Reduce Rural Telehealth Costs
• National Quality Expert Here On April 22nd
• Cost Effective Capital for Small Projects
• Competent Leaders Have High Emotional IQ
• Eye On Health Cartoon

 RWHC Newsletter - March, 1998

• The Key American Value of Choice
• Competing by Avoiding Sick People
• Secretary Donna Shalala & Rural Health
• Medicare Bankruptcy, a Crisis Only Delayed
• Not Just an HMO Driven World
• Doctors Give Mixed Marks to "Gatekeeping"
• Web Sites for Rural Minority Health
• "Mastering the Natural Art of Dying"
• The Answer is All in the Question
• Bull Market Undermines Community Spirit
• If Taverns Hosted AA Meetings?
• Register Now for Wisconsin Rural Health Conference
• Rural Doesn't Mean Uninformed
• EOH Cartoon

RWHC Newsletter - February, 1998

• WI Coalition For Health Insurance Reform
• WI's Medicare Losses
• Clinton's Preempts Medicare Commission
• Rural Wages May See Long Sought Review
• Health Expenditure Growth at 37 Year Low
• Three Managed Care Mega-Trends
• Becoming Indispensable
• International Medical Graduates
• Using Phones for Self-Care
• The U-Special Kids Model of Integrated Care
• Critical Access Hospitals: A WI Update
• WI Assembly On Line with Live Coverage
• WI AHEC System Restructuring Update
• Entries for $1,000 Rural Essay Due April 15
• Would You Want to Know?
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Newsletter - January, 1998

• Sauk County Quality Initiative
• We Can Detect Breast Cancer Earlier
• The Uninsured in These Ununited States
• Ongoing Dance of Competition & Regulation
• Both Market & Government
• Voluntary Purchasing Pools­Doing It Right
• HMOs & Rural Elderly
• Population Health-How Is Wisconsin Doing?
• Rural Physician Under-Supply
• Is the ADA Working?
• I'll See It When I Believe It
• Brown Slime On Your Neurons?
• Cooperation Works!
• Working Longer To Pay For Old Age
• RWHC Passages
• Eye On Health Cartoon
   

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1997

 RWHC Newsletter - December, 1997

• Nation Needs Honest Debate on Uninsured 
• Preventing Mid-Night Fire Sales NRHA Annual Policy Institute 
• Developing Relevant Health Policy 
• Nurse Practitioners Seek Balance With MDs 
• Zones of Collaboration Goes to Washington 
• Grateful Med 
• NRHA Opposes Post-Acute Transfer Rule 
• NRHA Hosts On-Line Networking 
• The Capital Area Rural Health Roundtable 
• ORYX Alert 
• Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program 
• WI Rural Health Association Moves Forward 
• Top Notch Choice as Health Administrator 
• Laughter Requires Surgical Intervention 
• Guns, Germs & Steel 
• Eye On Health cartoon 

RWHC Newsletter - November, 1997

• RWHC Offers A Rural ORYX Option 
• Rural Input to Medicare: Where's Waldo? 
• Wisconsin Requests Feds to Bless BadgerCare 
• State Health Care Reforms On Way Back 
• Consumer Protection and Quality 
• Non-Profit HMOs & AARP Propose Standards 
• Insurance Portability Reform Incomplete 
• Update Re Medicare Wage Index "Reform" 
• How to Access Telecommunication Subsidy 
• Nibbling Constantly, Sweetly at Power's Ear 
• Rural Health Services Research Database 
• Internet Has Your Map 
• How 'Statistics' Lead to Being Mislead 
• Networking-Undoing the Perfected 
• Foundation Fundraising and Grant Writing 
• Trudy Karlson Joins WI Policy Network 
• Eye On Health cartoon  

 RWHC Newsletter - October, 1997

• Rural Zones of Collaboration Energized 
• Institute of Medicine Looks at Collaboration 
• Urban Measures Right for Rural Care? 
• Rural Based Recommendations to Shalala 
• Hell Finally Freezes Over 
• Town Hall Meeting on Women's Health 
• Small-Firm Employees Fuel Backlash? 
• Reversing Course From Vertical Integration 
• Policy and Video Networks Merge Capacity 
• Innovative Program in Population Health 
• Wisconsin Medigap Hotline 
• Mental Health, Drug Abuse & Managed Care 
• The Art of Organizing Ourselves 
• Promoting Rural Health & Rural Jobs 
• A Rural Practitioner's Guide to Agromedicine 
• Beating the Nicotine Addiction 
• An Educational Cooperative in Cyberspace 
• Birth of Wisconsin Rural Health Association 
• Thanks to Rural WI Leaders 
• Almost Not the Wisconsin Badgers 
• Eye On Health cartoon 

 RWHC Newsletter - September, 1997

• The Price of Greed 
• Governors Given Medicare Hot Potato 
• Employee Health Insurance Varieties Grow 
• Federal Funding for Children's Health 
• Untangling Fraud from Errors 
• NRHA 5th Annual National Symposium On Rural Hospital Issues 
• Pharmaceutical Foxes Guarding Chickens 
• AMA Takes on Mantle of HMO Watch Dog 
• Columbia/HCA Shifts Physician Strategy 
• National Coalition Invites In A Rural Voice 
• Two-by-Two: 2% Uninsured by 2002 
• Medicare HMOs - Now Real Work Begins 
• Health Care's Swiss Army Knife? 
• Community Values Do Matter 
• RWHC Aims to Enhance Cooperation 
• RWHC Mission Steady Since 1979 
• The Dartmouth Health Atlas 
• "Trouble In The Boardroom" 
• Tip To Reduce Phone Solicitations At Work 
• Eye On Health cartoon 

 RWHC Newsletter - August, 1997

• Beginning of a New Competitive Era 
• Welcome Expansion of the Medicare Debate 
• The Medicare HMO Revolving Door 
• Enee, Menee, Minee, Minee, Mo 
• Competitors Can Cooperate 
• Obtaining the Best Financing Proposals 
• The Ultimate Slippery Slope Argument 
• Friends & Family Drive Health Care Choices 
• Managed Care Backlash Continues 
• FBI Raids the Raider 
• Health Law Program Celebrates 25th Year 
• U.S. Bureau of Census On-line Resource 
• "Medical Associations: Guilds or Leaders?" 
• A Decision-Maker Researcher Dialogue 
• WI Rural Leadership Program Opportunity 
• Eye On Health Cartoon 

There was no issue for July, 1997 

RWHC Newsletter - June, 1997

• Wisconsin's $1 Billion a Year Medicare Loss 
• Proposal for a Breast Cancer Survivor CampOrder Helps Rural Providers Get Wired 
• We Don't Pick Trends, Only Our Responses 
• Rural HMOs: How Much & Where? 
• How Medicare HMOs Sweeten the Pot 
• The Age of Information, Misinformation 
• Benefits of a Cooperative Initiative 
• Partnerships for Health 
• Cheesehead Cool 
• Another Cheesehead to Washington 
• Washington Becoming a Veritable Fondue 
• Ex-UW Professor Now CEO $1.5 B System 
• WI Honors Primary Care Educators 
• Note for Health Policy Web-Wonks 
• Summer Is Finally Here 
•  "When the horse is dead, get off." 
•  Eye On Health Cartoons  

RWHC Newsletter - May, 1997

• The RWHC Jackie Robinson Award 
• While falling into the news category of dog bites man...  
• Public Opinion & Federal Budget Reality Gap 
• Delaying Obvious Will Hurt Us All More 
• Bob Dole on Fixing Medicare 
• Clinton's Proposed Medicare HMO "Fix" 
• Arms Race Between Buyers & Sellers 
• Balancing Back Lash Against HMOs 
• Risk Adjustment 
• Don't Foreclose the Individual Uninsured 
• State Role in Nonprofit Conversions 
• Don't Throw Out Community Input 
• Continuing the Reinvention 
• Out of the Citadel into Community 
• Culture, Agriculture & Rural Health 
• Between Chaos and Order 
• Myrtle Werth Honored Nationally, Again 
• WisKids Count Data Book 
• How Do You Approach Change? 
• Eye On Health Cartoon 

RWHC Newsletter - April, 1997 

• Opposing Across-the-Board Medicare Cuts 
• Prevention in HMO's Economic Interest? 
• Errata re "Part A" Deductible/Coinsurance 
• The Rural Zones of Collaboration Initiative 
• The Shift Away From Fee-For-Service Plans 
• RWHC Snapshots 
• More at All Ages Overweight 
• Rural Hospitals Serve More Elderly, Uninsured 
• PSOs - The Position For 
• PSOs - The Position Against 
• Administrative Costs Higher At For-Profits 
• A Physician & American Politics 
• Those Darn Blue Dogs 
• Sunset Casts Shadow on Rural Health 
• Eye On Health Cartoon   

RWHC Newsletter - March, 1997

• Medicare Cost To Elderly Spurs HMO Growth 
• Medicare HMOs Big In A Few Counties 
• Senators Proposing Medicare Commission 
• Additional Competitive Medicare Models 
• Medicare Changing Without Congress 
• Federal Rural Advisory Group Speaks Up 
• Bottom Line: Competition Means Something 
• The Hype Of Dealmaking 
• News Or Propaganda? 
• OHCI Aides Wisconsin Grant Writing 
• AHA's New Eye On Patients 
• Caring For Our Children's Health 
• We Need To Get Off Our Collective Butts 
• Wisconsin's Lion & Sheep Lie Down Together 
• NRHA's Policy Institute 
• Values For Sale? 
• The Start Of Medical Savings Accounts 
• Entries For $1,000 Rural Essay Due April 15 
• A Field Guide to Cows 
• Eye On Health Cartoon  

RWHC Newsletter - Super Bowl Special Edition,1997

• How About Those Conventional Wisdoms? 
• Medicare "Freeze" Hits Fat & Lean 
• WI Insurance Commissioner In National Post 
• Congressional Medicare Scuffle 1997-1 
• A Failure Of Leadership--Partisan Strife 
• Medicare Wage Inequity Continues 
• Through A Looking Glass--After Regulation 
• Examining Conventional Wisdom, Part II 
• Caring For The Uninsured--Realistic Reforms 
• The Non-Profit Conversion Debate Continues 
• Contrary Provider Views On Assisted Suicide 
• Social Security Debate According To AARP 
• Sean's Exploding Oat Bran Muffins 
• Eye On Health Cartoon 

RWHC Newsletter - January, 1997

• Farewell Tour Of A Class Act
• 2000
• "Riverboat Gambling With Government"
• A Chilling Post-Mortem Of Health Reform
• Wisconsin Governor's Rural Summit
• Mainstream Media & Medicare Equity 
• Managed Care--What About Quality?
• Congressional Backlash Against HMOs?
• Medicare Prohibits HMO "Gag Rules"
• Clinton Proposes Modest Medicare Reform
• Five "Models That Work"
• What Is Rural & Who Cares?
• Health Insurance Or Prison?
• Premature Death Rate Higher In Rural Areas
• Community-Academic Partnership, For Real
• 1.3 Million Awarded To AHEC
• Internet Grows As Basic Health Care Tool
• Greg Nycz Receives Overdue Honor
   

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1996

RWHC Newsletter - December, 1996

• One Major Historic Federal Bias Ended 
• RWHC Hospitals Receive Antitrust Approval 
• HMOs Can Avoid Sick Elderly And Win Big
• Medicare Urban-Rural Payment Gap Grows
• Medigap Premium Hikes Fuel HMO Growth
• Medicare Physician Fees Set For 1997
• Be Wary Of Red Queen Principle
• Virtual Integration Becoming More Common
• Managed Care: Myths On The Supply Side
• Another Reason For Post Election Hang-Over 
• You May Have No Deep Discounts Now, But...
• HMOs Use ERISA To Shift Malpractice Risk
• EACH/RPCH Replacement & Expansion 
• Telemedicine Buildout & Discount Needed 
• Rural Lead In Uncompensated Care
• RWHC Director Receives National Honor
• NRHA 20th Annual Conference
• More Seeing Value Of HMO Collaboration 
• National Academy of Sciences Taps Kindig
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Newsletter - November, 1996

• Divorce HMO Style, Who Gets The Kids?
• New Take Over Target Charitable Assets
• N C Q A Watch These Initials
• Medicare's Flawed Formula Costs Elderly
• Old Data Maintains MD Payment Inequities
• Medicare Commission Now More Likely
• IPAs--No More Dr. Dangerfield
• How Little Hospital Care?
• Rural Health and Rural Economics
• NRHA To Consider Expanded Participation 
• Policy Roots For Rural Medicare Reform 
• Medicaid HMOs Need Collaborative Outreach
• Primary Health Care Educator Award 
• EMS Rural Representation To Be Improved
• Your End-Of-Life Preferences?
• RWHC Product Catches On Nationally
• RWHC Admits Five Urban Systems
• RWHC Administrative Services Manager
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Newsletter - October, 1996

• WI HMO Rates Falling Behind
• NRHA On To Medicare Reform
• AHA Supports Fairer Medicare HMO Rates
• Employer-Based Health Insurance Shrinking
• Creating Functional Competition
• Why Farm Rescue Training?
• Family Medicine & Rural Health
• Chilly Shoulder Given Primary Care 
• Long Awaited Rural Family Medicine Track
• Physician Salaries Drop For First Time
• AHEC To Become Real Joint Venture
• Collaborative EMS Leadership Needed
• Resources For Rural Community Developers 
• RWHC Invites Urbans To Cooperative Forum
• Negotiating With Kritek, You Read It Here 1st
• For Or Non-Profit, Why The Fuss?
• OHCI To DHFS Drops User Policy Board?
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Newsletter - September, 1996

• Portability Assured But Not Price
• Brief Truce In Congressional Bickering
• Non-Presidential Non-Debate
• Medicare Falling Brick Picking Up Speed
• HMO Cost vs. Quality?
• Less Smoke But Lots Of Mirrors
• Feds Approve RWHC Antitrust Request
• National Antitrust Guidelines Delayed
• Alliances Preferred To Mergers
• Quick Environmental Scan
• You & NRHA Need Each Other
• Rhetoric Back Home
• Risk Adjustment Remains A Major Issue
• NPs & PAs Work Through Out State
• Financing Community Graduate Medical Education
• Business Health Alliances Align
• Health Club Application Gone, Issue Remains
• RWHC/CPN Healthcare-Informatics Initiative
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Newsletter - August, 1996

• Approval Close For Single Payment Localities
• Even Moderate Physical Activity Is Effective
• Once Upon A Time, Tax Exempt Hospitals
• Clinton vs Dole vs Perot Poll
• Californians Aim To Balance HMO Power 
• A WI Rural Health Agenda
• Congratulations & Thanks To An Institution
• WI AHEC, Time To Close Walk-Talk Gap
• RWHC Clinical Services Director
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Newsletter - July, 1996

• Who We Are Effects What We Spend
• The Rural Health Improvement Act of 1996
• Medicare Fight On Money And Rules
• Medicare Inpatient Costs Decreased In 1995
• National & Wisconsin Democrats Crow
• Integrating Provider & Community Values
• Alternative View On The Physician Surplus
• Competition, Education & Research
• Man Bites Dog--Medical School Collaboration
• Competitors Can Support Research
• The Obsession To Gut The Hospital
• Appropriate Rural Policy Goals
• Rural Areas Again Experiencing Growth Spurt
• Rural Providers Pawns In A Larger Game
• Rural Health Stereotypes Alive & Well
• Americans Are Becoming More Involved
• Your Congressional Rep. In Coalition?
• Apple Has Tripped But Don't Count It Out
• New RWHC Email Addresses

RWHC Newsletter - June, 1996

• Smoking Death Benefit
• Health Care Upheaval As After Thought
• Dishonest Ritual--Dangerous Deception
• Economic Doctrine Vs. Common Sense
• Depression: Paralysis and Self-Destruction
• Odds 9 To 2 That The Tallest Guy Wins
• Clinton's Praise Helps Thompson, Hurts Dole
• Basic Insurance Reform Again In Doubt
• HMO Execs & Consumers Agree, Disagree
• Clinton's Mothers' Day Speech Against HMOs
• Additional HMO Restraining Laws 
• Independent Pharmacies May Get Discounts
• HMO Community Benefits Guidelines
• One Case Of Turning Predators Into Allies
• NRHA Adopts Anti-Trust Policy
• Rural Health Bill Aiming For July 1st 
• Not Steve Gunderson's Decision To Make
• Scott Klug Visits With RWHC
• WI Workforce Forum Report Completed
• WI AHEC Looks At Restructuring
• Harold Brown Sets A High Standard
• An Expanded Coalition For Medicare Equity
• Howard Young Joint Ventures With BlueCross
• Telecommunications Cooperative Save 25%
• Annual Monato Essay Prize Now $1,000
• Myths About Main Street & Rural Health 
• Talk With New Kellogg CEO
• Competition Can Feel Real Good

RWHC Newsletter - May, 1996 

• Medicare HMO Fix Agreed, In Principle
• Basic Health Insurance Reform, Hopefully
• Clinton vs. Dole
• Implications Of Medicare Budget Impasse
• Medicare Equity Issues For Next Congress
• "Charity Care Unaffordable Option of Past?"
• Antitrust & Rural Health
• The Effect Of Un-Managed Managed Care?
• Feds Requiring Disclosure Of HMO Incentives
• HMOs & Conflict Of Interest
• Blue's UWSI Has "Disappointing Results"
• HMOs Do More Than Lower Costs 
• Rural Reps Elected To Unity Health Plans
• Merger Mania Misses Mark, More Evidence
• No New Wisconsin Property Tax Exemptions
• Internet Voter Registration
• AHEC Project On Line Walking The Talk 
• WI Division of Health Leadership Changes 
• The Hidden Competitive Weapon
• Why Men Don't Ask Directions?
• Seeking A Liberal Rush?
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Newsletter - April, 1996 

• "Rural Seniors Are Shut Out Of HMOs" 
• Key Medicare/Medicaid HMO Limitation 
• Yet Another ProPAC Kick At The Cat
• Making Book On Clinton-Dole Race
• This Is Your Life, Fast Forward?
• MD Residents: Generalists Up, Specialists Down
• Study Abroad In Wisconsin
• AHEC Shifts To In-State Support 
• "Specialists have it easy..."
• Organizing For The Future
• Lemmings - The Sequel
• Not-For-Profit Hospitals Back To Future?
• Cheaper Drugs Can Cost HMOs More
• HMO Database On Quality Being Created 
• Sewer Wars Backup On Rural Health
• RWHC Manager Clinical Services
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Newsletter - March, 1996

• Policy Break For Presidential Year Politics
• A Dole-Powell Ticket 
• Lust & Fear Enhances Gridlock
• Not Whether Rules But What Rules
• Actuaries Refute Insurer's Main Argument
• "Three Destructive Trends"
• Rural Medical Centers, Update
• Public Health Or Health Of The Public?
• State Joins Anti-Marshfield Brief 
• Go Next Door To NRHA National Meeting 
• Value Beyond Beds
• Kritek In News
• Local History Via Internet
• HMO Market Shares In RWHC Counties
• Capital Financing For Small Projects

RWHC Newsletter - February, 1996

• Clinton's Limited Health Priorities
• Shalala - Clinton Split?
• Steve Gunderson Rare Voice Of Optimism
• Senate To Consider Insurance Reform
• "A Picture Of The Political State"
• Rural Wisconsin Hits Capitol Hill
• Policy Priorities If Elected To NRHA Post
• In USA: Same Ailment Different Remedies
• HMO Premiums Flat or Declining 
• Brief Quiz From A Health Economist
• Headlines Dangerous To Your Health 
• MD. Loan Program Revamp Advanced 
• Rural Employment Increases Hurts State?
• Antitrust Launches Town-Gown Series
• RWHC & Federal Justice Still Talking 
• Sharp Increase In Teen Smoking
• Zones Of Collaboration Update
• Major, Upcoming Telemedicine Seminar
• Answers To Health Economics Quiz
• Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Newsletter - January, 1996

• Federal Leadership
• Medicare PPS Equity, Back To Year One
• Republican Medicare Vision In Doubt?
• 1996 Election Forecast: Unpredictable
• WI Still Seeks Single Payment Locality
• HMOs, Physicians, Patients & Trust? 
• Competing HMOs Can Collaborate
• Immunizing Cooperative Agreements
• United Nations Explores Health Co-ops
• Most MD Income Down But F.P.'s Up 
• RWHC Accounting Manager
• NPs & PAs In Demand By Rural Hospitals 
• Lafayette County Hospital In Top 100 
• WI DHFS Strategic Plan Available 
• No Comment Needed
• Eye On Health Cartoon

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1995

RWHC Newsletter - December, 1995

• Animal House Food Fight - The Sequel
• The Fairness Question
• Rural Impact Of Medicare Policy Changes
• HCFA Opposes Medicare Equity Advance
• HCFA Publishes Pro-Rural Series 
• Healthcare Providers' Bi-Political Identity
• Balancing "Competition vs. Collaboration"
• Privatization Supports Mega-Corp. Growth
• Eye On Health 
• WI Medicaid HMO Changes Accepted
• AHEC Seeks Rural Training Partners
• UW-Extension Information Partnerships
• Ruff & Donkle Present At HFMA 50th
• NRHA '96 National Conference In Midwest
• Bill Beach Honored
• Tommy & Truman
• May Your Holiday Time Be Equally Joyful

RWHC Newsletter - November, 1995

• Rural Medicare Increases Already At Zero 
• The Good And Ugly Of Budget Reconciliation 
• Increases In Medicare Expenditures 
• Rural Zones Of Collaboration 
• OHCI Details HMO WI Presence 
• How Competitive Are "Free" Markets? 
• Robin Hood Flees Marketplace 
• In Sickness And In Wealth 
• "The Illusive Logic Of Integration" 
• Update Re Anti-Trust Relief
• Eye On Health 

RWHC Newsletter - October, 1995

• Gunderson And Klug Are Due Our Thanks 
• A More Rural "Friendly" HMO Formula
• The Problem Newt Had To Face 
• Medicare/Medicaid Head Speaks Out 
• Reform Déjà Vu All Over Again 
• The Blue Cross - Marshfield Saga 
• Rural Medical Centers, Next Step 
• A Tale Of Seven Counties NRHA 
• Fund Drive Deserves Support 
• Happiness Is ... 
• Rural Nurse Execs And Cooperation 
• Quamme Pres. of Southwest AHEC 
• RWHC Nurse Consultant 
• Interdisciplinary Primary Care Midwest 
• To Mideast Via Web 
• We All Need Additional NRHA Members 
• Falling Grouse 
• Empowerment Beyond Rhetoric 
• Regional Health Networks Meeting 
• Eye On Health 

RWHC Newsletter - September, 1995

• The Phony Claims About Medicare 
• RWHC Responds To House Speaker 
• Shalala's Rural Advisors Set Agenda 
• Antitrust Needn't Limit Cooperation 
• Getting Rural Health's Big Picture 
• Marshfield Wins Most Of Appeal 
• October is National Co-op Month 
• How About Fed.'s Own Hospitals? 
• Urban Folks Now Back Rural Equity 
• The Enemy Of Intimacy 
• Cause Of A Third Party Candidate? 
• Bachelor's Program For Rural RN's 
• Eye On Health 

RWHC Newsletter - August, 1995

• RWHC Now On World Wide Web 
• Medicare Benefit Varies Widely 
• Medicare Equity Fight Continues 
• Medicare Reform And Rural Health? 
• A Medicare Cutting Commission? 
• Rural Funds Up To Senate Vote 
• Rural Health National Direction? 
• Support Rural Medical Center 
• Vote Some Health Policy Takes A While 
• Faces From The Front 
• System Overhead And Competition? 
• UW Med School Dean Confirmed 
• Marshfield Antitrust Appeal Heard 
• No Comment, Republican Or Other 

RWHC Newsletter - July, 1995

• Gunderson Fights For Rural Health 
• Your Help Needed In U.S. Senate 
• Government And Rural Communicate? 
• Medicare And Rural Health 
• This Lemming Won't Rush To Sea 
• Gopher And Health Tracking 
• Wisconsin Health Insurance Reform 
• Syl Boeder Starts Consulting Corp. 
• WI In Top Quartile Of HMO Use 
• Washington Post Summer Shorts 

RWHC Newsletter - June, 1995

• 250 Billion Medicare Spending Cut? 
• Note For Medicare Finance Nerds 
• Other Impact Of Budget Resolutions 
• Suggestions To Donna Shalala 
• RWHC Supports Insurance Reform 
• Court Ruling Adds A Reform Option 
• Wisconsin Flunks Risk Assessment 
• Community Care Network Demo 
• Wisconsin On World Wide Web 
• Work Force Planning Medical School Search Nears End 
• I'm Out Of Here 

RWHC Newsletter - May, 1995

• No Good Fixing Just One Tire 
• "The Debate That Wasn't" 
• "Only Bread, Circus Games Needed" 
• WI High Priority Areas Identified 
• Private Sector Pays 29% Tax 
• New Technology­p;It And We Adapt 
• Urban Split On Payment Localities 
• RWHC Asks For Federal Ruling 
• Medicare HMO-PPO-POS Challenge 

RWHC Newsletter - April, 1995

• Return Of National Health Reform? 
• '95-97 WI Medicaid HMO Penetration 
• Another Wisconsin Step 
• Forward Milbank Selects Wisconsin Proposal 
• Work Force Planning And Accountability 
• WI Wage Data Distorts Payments 
• WI Rural Isn't Just Rural Anymore 
• RWHC Director To Be WHIMA Pres. 
• Federal Rural Health Block Grant 
• Fed Policies For Rural Networking 
• A Virtual Hospital Next Door 
• Meeting With Governor Thompson 
• From The Insanity In Oklahoma... 
• "Embrace Change, Cherish Values" 

RWHC Newsletter - March, 1995

• After 15 Years, A Name Adjustment 
• Progress On Medicare MD Equity 
• Competition, Or Is It Collaboration? 
• RWHC Competition Is Outmigration 
• Limits Of The New Federalism? 
• Medicare Share Continues To Slide 
• AHA Rep Visits With RWHC Board 
• Statewide Personnel Plan Proposed 
• RMC Statute Out Of Budget Bill 
• RWJF Project On Rural Networking 
• Netscape: The Surfers' Choice 

RWHC Newsletter - February, 1995

• New Assembly Health Committee 
• Look to the Dutch for Market Reform 
• Public-Private Data Partnerships 
• Two Incomplete Visions of Government 
• Two Wisconsin Leaders Step Up 
• Rural Medical Centers In Action 
• Save EACH/PCH Baby In Bath Water 
• Rural Health Clinic Change On Horizon 
• New WI DOD Head Backs Rural Health 
• Slow Start For Med School Dean Search 
• Medical Schools Not Off The Hook 
• WI MD From Amazon Seeks To Talk 
• Paper Planes Bring Success 
• Typical Washington Overstatement 
• A Rare Washington Understatement 

RWHC Newsletter - January, 1995

• If Nixon Could Go To China... 
• Reducing Medicare Geographic Inequity 
• What Are Anti-Competitive Acts? 
• Now Blue Cross Gets To Play Defense 
• The Internet Comes To RWHC 
• George Halvorson's Strong Medicine 
• UW Policy Program Outreach To State 
• Assessing Rural Market Driven Reform 
• A Personal WI Wish List For '95 
• "The Most Dangerous Stage Is Respect"  

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