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2010
RWHC Eye On Health - February 1, 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 1, 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
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
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
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