RWHC Rural Health News & Updates

Supporting Employee and Patient Families with Child Care Assistance

posted on 11/23/2020 2:26:00 PM

Childcare has emerged as a top priority in all three of Wisconsin Partners’ regional groups. We’ve seen how childcare has been a challenge for parents, grandparents, providers, and employers, thereby affecting the community at large. And, even thou...

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An Open Letter to the People of Wisconsin

posted on 11/23/2020 8:50:00 AM

Signed by thousands of us in Wisconsin healthcare and being published statewide. "Wisconsin, we love you. Many of us grew up here, others chose to live here. We all work to serve you. We will do anything we can to take care of you. You are our neighb...

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Wisconsin Public Radio - Newsmakers

posted on 11/23/2020 8:14:00 AM

A truly excellent interview with David Hartberg, Vernon Memorial Healthcare CEO and RWHC President. (David’s interview is from minute 2:26 to 15:60) David hits it out of the park as he explains what our rural hospitals are now facing and how they ar...

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Pfizer and Moderna work to effectively ship and store coronavirus vaccine doses

posted on 11/20/2020 8:37:00 AM

(CBS News video) Our very own Tim Size sits down with CBS News, advocating for equal rural access to the vaccines. While two major drug companies await approval from the FDA on their coronavirus vaccines, behind the scenes, they're drawing up plans t...

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"No One Is Listening to Us" (from The Atlantic)

posted on 11/19/2020 8:28:00 AM

More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19. Health-care workers can’t go on like this.

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November 2020 Leadership Insights - Center. Enter. Add Value.

posted on 11/18/2020 9:05:00 AM

Issue 121 - "Center. Enter. Add Value."by Jo Anne Preston, Workforce & Organizational Development Senior Manager, RWHC

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Rural Healthcare’s COVID Crisis (WORT Radio - A Public Affair)

posted on 11/16/2020 2:28:00 PM

(WORT Radio) A Public Affair - Today on the show, we take a close look at the pandemic’s impact on rural hospitals and healthcare with journalist Lyle Muller of IowaWatch and Tim Size, executive director of Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative.

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CDC Recommendations for Thanksgiving Celebrations

posted on 11/16/2020 7:45:00 AM

“The safest way to celebrate Thanksgiving this year is to celebrate with people in your household. If you do plan to spend Thanksgiving with people outside your household, take steps to make your celebration safer.”

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A Surge in South Dakota

posted on 11/13/2020 9:27:00 AM

Dr Tom Dean, a Rural Family Practitioner in South Dakota, talks to CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta–South Dakota has had one of the worst spikes of Covid-19 cases in the country, with the positivity rate now climbing above 50%. Po...

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The December 2020 issue Eye On Health is now available

posted on 11/13/2020 9:06:00 AM

This issue includes: Wisconsin is Losing, Bias in Proposed Vaccine Distribution?, Celebrating National Rural Health Day, RWHC Achieves National Gold Recognition, A Nursing Legend Rightly Honored, The First Cartoon in Eye On Health , WI Rural GME Laun...

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Election Day is over, and guess what?

posted on 11/10/2020 8:34:00 AM

A plain speaking family physician sharing his experience and hope. (Article by Dr Tom Dean, Wessington Springs, South Dakota)

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Celebrating National Rural Health Day

posted on 11/9/2020 9:42:00 AM

A Commentary by Tim Size, RWHC Executive Director

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Message to our farmer friends...

posted on 11/9/2020 8:10:00 AM

From a colleague to Tim Size, RWHC Executive Director: “I debated making this post but if it saves one of my friends, family member or neighbor it's worth it.

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Wisconsin captured national eye in election; can it do so now with COVID fight?

posted on 11/6/2020 8:02:00 AM

A commentary by Tom Still, President, Wisconsin Technology Council

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