Office of Rural Health Community Grants, Part III: Access to Health Care

The Office awarded another of our community grants to the Polk County Free Clinic coalition to plan for a clinic serving the chronically ill in the County.  The Polk County Health Department, ABC for Rural Health, the Salvation Army and three hospitals in Amery, Osceola and St. Croix Falls will work on the Chronic Care [...]

November 1, 2010 · KJacobson · No Comments
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Health Care Reform, Six Months On

Thursday is the six-month anniversary of Congress passing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as health reform, and we’re beginning to see many of its impacts.  As you can guess from the title of this blog, I post about rural matters.  I’ll be occasionally posting about ACA and how specifically it’s [...]

September 21, 2010 · KJacobson · No Comments
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Conference Opportunities in Wisconsin

Over the next few months communities across Wisconsin will host several conferences on a variety of health issues.  Some offer discounts for early registration or those who are already members of the sponsoring organization.  Some even have scholarships!  I encourage you to consider attending these or other conferences—they really are a good source of information [...]

January 9, 2009 · KJacobson · No Comments
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