The May Issue of RWHC Eye On Health is now available and Includes:

• 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

Thanks for your ongoing support for rural health!

Healthcare Leadership in a Divided Country, 
by Tim Size, Executive Director, RWHC

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"RWHC in Review 2017-2018" is online. Click here for PDF.

RWHC Commentary: "Celebrating Rural Hospitals, the 20th Anniversary of Critical Access"

by Tim Size, RWHC Executive Director for the National Rural Health Association Policy Institute on February 6th, 2018.

RWHC Partners with Where Is Care to Increase Access in Rural Communities

RWHC partnered with a group called the Student & Leaders Network (SLN) to create two live streaming/recorded career programs for Wisconsin high school and jr. high students to promote rural pharmacy practice and men in nursing. The programs highlighted the stories of two RWHC partners, sharing guidance for students, teachers and parents about important facets of these careers and helping young people see into the daily lives of pharmacy and nursing work.

Pharmacy featured Cindy Kissack, Director of Pharmacy at St. Clare’s Hospital in Baraboo and RWHC Pharmacy Roundtable member: Pharmacist: More Than Just Counting Pills

Men in Nursing featured Jeremiah Galvan, RN, Clinical Manager of Critical Care, Gundersen Health System and member of RWHC Men in Nursing Roundtable. Being A Nurse: Caring Beyond the Bedside

These programs, along with many other career programs that reach over 140,000 Wisconsin students each year are available at http://www.studentcareerinfo.com/ SLN, a 501(c)3 nonprofit serves as a bridge to identify and involve Wisconsin experts and leaders with the Wisconsin educational system by providing live, interactive web conferencing and digitally stored video discussions on topics that provide information and insight on careers and life challenges for students, educators and parents. The program is free to schools.

25th RWHC Rural Essay Prize Winner Announced–This year’s Hermes Monato Rural Health Essay Prize for $2,500 has been awarded to Ian Jasso, a senior studying Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison or his essay, “Mish ko Swen: To Be Strong and Healthy” available at http://ow.ly/MWrI30eYKbN 
 

Wisconsin Partners

Seeks a Community Builder (.5 FTE)

Organization Description–Wisconsin Partners is a statewide “association of associations” whose goal is to be an effective community building network. Info at http://ow.ly/9hVZ30ei0s9

Position Description–This individual will use strategic community building and organizing techniques to engage stakeholders in community and neighborhood improvement in two geographical regions of the state: Fox Valley/Green Bay corridor; and Southcentral/Southwest corridor. The incumbent will also support the efforts of the statewide organization’s development.

See the complete description at http://ow.ly/6zZf30ei29D

Salary and Benefits–The Community Builder will be employed by the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative (RWHC) and contracted to work for Wisconsin Partners. It is anticipated that the Community Builder will spend much of their time meeting with community partners, and will find it most convenient to work remotely/out of his or her home, however, an office space and support is offered by RWHC in Sauk City. 

Contact Information–Please send cover letter and resume to wisconsinpartners@gmail.com by 9/1/2017.