The state’s technical college and university systems plan to support a slew of efforts with their share of federal dollars received by Wisconsin to transform rural healthcare.
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The Department of Health Services has chosen Epic to build a statewide electronic health record system with federal rural health transformation dollars.
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The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development plans to award $150 million over four years to nonprofits and government organizations to tackle rural healthcare workforce challenges.
The state’s health department opened applications on Monday for $40 million to support care coordination, community health workers and dental clinics in rural Wisconsin.
Federal dollars to transform rural healthcare will not offset the impact of expired enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies and the cuts to Medicaid, food assistance and the ACA marketplace included in the Republican tax-and-spending bill enacted last summer, The Commonwealth Fund reported.
Wisconsin laid the groundwork for how it’ll spend federal funding meant to transform rural healthcare long before the dollars became available.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a stop in western Wisconsin Monday to highlight the Trump administration’s work to support rural healthcare, eating “real food” and faith-based addiction treatment.
The Department of Health Services is beginning to implement projects backed by more than $200 million in federal funding received in the first year of a program to transform rural healthcare.
Medical College of Wisconsin CEO Dr. John Raymond reflected on leading the state’s private medical school for more than 15 years and what’s next for healthcare at a Wisconsin Health News event this week.
Wisconsin will receive $203.7 million from the federal government for rural healthcare initiatives through the first year of the Rural Health Transformation Program.
The Department of Health Services submitted a request this week to use $1 billion in federal funding to support the healthcare workforce, boost technology adoption and improve care coordination in rural Wisconsin.
Rural Wisconsin healthcare faces workforce shortages, diminishing access, changing demographics and reimbursement challenges. It’s also ripe for innovation, experts said during a Wisconsin Health News panel this week.
