Highlighted Workshops and Events
We list hundreds of events on our Rural Reporter Calendar, but the workshops and events below are either our workshops or events we'd like to highlight.
The Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative and the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health would like to invite you to attend "Risk Management 101," an educational session that will cover risk identification, analysis, and control. Attendees will learn to articulate a working definition of healthcare risk management and the role of the risk manager; understand errors, variances, near misses, and violations; verbalize a basic understanding of HIPAA and EMTALA laws, and create a healthcare risk management plan and execute a healthcare risk assessment.
The session will be led by Paul Frigoli, Aspirus Riverview Director of Emergency Services. Paul has a Ph.D. in training and performance improvement, was a past president of the Wisconsin Association for Healthcare Quality, and is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality.
The target audience of this event is new risk managers in Critical Access Hospitals or small rural hospitals.
Event Website »A Federal Communications Commission team will meet with rural Wisconsin and Minnesota community leaders and groups to discuss telecommunications issues next week. The general public is invited to attend discussions in Winona, La Crescent, and La Crosse on Wednesday, June 26; Tomah on Thursday, June 27, and DeForest and Portage on Friday, June 28.
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The Rural Health Data Summit is designed primarily for State Offices of Rural Health. SORH Data analysts and managers who understand and use rural health data regularly, as well as program managers and directors who make strategic decisions on the use of data and who are willing to go deep on these topics, are our main audiences. This is not an introduction to using data but a place for data users to share ideas with each other and help step up our game.
Event Website »The 2019 Wisconsin Healthcare Workforce Summit from the Wisconsin Council on Medical Education and Workforce will be held on Tuesday, September 24, 8am – 4pm at the Best Western Waterfront, in Oshkosh. Previous WCMEW workforce summits have drawn over 100 interdisciplinary attendees, and this year’s event will feature even more opportunities to engage, strategize, and learn.
The 2019 summit will be a venue for all healthcare professionals to connect – designing the workforce Wisconsin needs now and in the future. It will address questions such as: What can we expect for tomorrow's workforce? How can we prepare? How can leaders impact burnout in ways that actually lead to provider retention? How are schools and employers collaborating to train tomorrow’s clinicians?
Attendees and presenters include providers (physicians, APRNs, and pharmacists); hospital, clinic, and health system decision-makers; educators and clinical coordinators; state and local policymakers; managed care and payer executives; advanced practice innovators, and more.
Event Website »This summit will focus on surgical site infection prevention associated with orthopedic, colorectal, and OB/GYN procedures. Wisconsin hospital teams that have successfully implemented SSI risk reduction within their facilities will also be featured.
Location: Wilderness Resort, Wisconsin Dells
