State News
New Dental School Sought
Mindful of the severe shortage of dentists in large swaths of rural Wisconsin, the Marshfield Clinic and the state's largest community health center have begun putting together the pieces to start a second dental school in Wisconsin. [Read article]
Doctor Shortage Is A Real Concern
An In Depth report from Channel3000.com reinstates the fact that the greatest need of doctors is in the family practice, internal medicine and hospitalist areas as these positions serve as primary care physicians. The demand for primary care in Wisconsin will increase by 33% by 2020 and 65% by 2030. Special attention given to a rural Iowa County doctor and Dr. Byron Crouse, Assoc Dean, Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM). [Watch]
New Life for Healthy Wisconsin
Efforts are underway to revive the state Senate's Healthy Wisconsin proposal. [Read article]
The Cost of Doing Nothing: Wisconsin
Citizen Action released a report from the New America Foundation which finds that Wisconsin family health insurance policies will cost nearly $25,000 by 2016. The report demonstrates that unless we enact fundamental reform, health insurance will soon be completely unaffordable for Wisconsin families and businesses. [Read article]
Stimulus Funds for Wisconsin Food Stamp Program
Wisconsin will receive more than $110.6 million in FoodShare benefits through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as Food Stamps) from the ARRA. The funding will go toward a temporary 13.6 percent increase in benefits for recipients of Wisconsin’s FoodShare program. [Read article]
Wisconsin Receives Grant for BadgerCare Plus Enrollment and Retention Efforts
Wisconsin has been awarded a $1 million, four-year grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to improve enrollment and retention of eligible children in the BadgerCare Plus health insurance program. [Read article]
Nurses Testify to Improve Hospital Care
Registered nurses gathered at the state capitol Wednesday to testify on AB 152 which looks to ban mandatory overtime for health care professionals in Wisconsin. [Read article]
WI-ORH Rural Cancer Health Disparities Interview
John Eich, Director, WI Office of Rural Health (WI-ORH) and Dr. Lengerich, Professor of Public Health Sciences and Director of Community Outreach & Education at Penn State University, discuss his research on rural cancer health disparities and utilizing community outreach to recruit rural women for mammography screenings. [View]
