WORH Updates
Dentist Placement Program
Filling the Gaps: Improving Access to Dental Care in Wisconsin Blog. [Read articles prior to January 2009]
Rural Communities Initiatives
Rural Health and Community Development Blog [Read articles prior to November 2008]
New Physicians for Wisconsin Program
The new 2011-2012 recruitment “year” began on July 1st, following a very challenging 2010-2011 “year”. The number of available physician positions keeps increasing, while the supply of physicians stayed the same or decreased in some areas. Competition for primary care physicians is extremely keen, and clinics /hospitals around the state are struggling to fill their physician shortages.
Rural Hospital Initiatives
The Office of Rural Health is proud to announce that we have scheduled our 3rd Annual Wisconsin Rural Health Summit for May 24th at Chula Vista in Wisconsin Dells. We hope you can join us to learn how the changes on the State and Federal level have impacted rural health care. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from, and network with, other rural health professionals. This year we are pleased to have Brock Slabach from the National Rural Health Association (NRHA). Brock will provide a legislative update from the federal level. We will also have
