Success Stories by State: Wisconsin

• Gundersen Lutheran Health System: Performance Improvement Through Partnership
  August 2009
  Gundersen Lutheran Health System is a physician-led, not-for-profit integrated delivery system serving more than 550,000 people in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota.
• Hispanic Health Outreach Project
  July 2009
  The Hispanic Health Outreach Project provided outreach, education, and case management services to Hispanic residents in Portage and Waupaca counties.
• Honoring our Children Project
  July 2009
  The Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council’s Honoring Our Children Project (HOC) developed a culturally competent, collaborative network of tribal and non-tribal health providers, elders, leaders, and community members to address the complex array of health care problems facing American Indians living near the Lac du Flambeau community.
• Connect for Healthy Kids
  May 2009
  Connect for Healthy Kids provided services to any families with children— from unborn children to children 8 years of age—in Grant County.
• Family Net
  May 2009
  The Oneida County Department of Social Services launched the Family Net program to provide a more coordinated, better functioning system of care for at-risk families.
• Partners in Agricultural Health Program
  May 2009
  PAH was designed to strengthen existing occupational health services within three county health departments and five participating hospitals by providing educational programs and preventive screenings for farmers and their family members, creating an educational program for health professionals to enhance their understanding of the unique healthcare needs of farmers, and developing an interactive Web site to market the project and disseminate educational information.
• Wisconsin Rural Women's Initiative
  January 2009
  Wisconsin Rural Women’s Initiative has received a $10,000 grant from the Helen Bader Foundation to provide programs designed to meet the needs of isolated farm and rural women.
• ProACTIVE Wellness Initiative: Helping Wisconsin Workers Get Fit
  September 2008
  Employees at D&S Manufacturing in Black River Falls, Wis., are healthier these days, since participating in a worksite wellness initiative.
• Sowing the Seeds of Hope
  July 2008
  Sowing the Seeds of Hope is responding to the mental health needs of farm families. This is a collaborative effort of project leaders in seven predominantly rural states: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
• Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative “Club Scrub”
  March 2008
  Rural providers collaborated on an interactive, after-school program called “Club Scrub” – a community partnership involving local hospitals and their respective school systems. The primary goal of the program was to increase awareness of health-related professions.
• Farmers' Health Cooperative of Wisconsin
  November 2007
  The Farmers’ Health Cooperative of Wisconsin (FHCW) is a cooperative formed to serve Wisconsin farmers and agribusinesses by allowing them to join the co-op to purchase health insurance.
• EMS Co-op Helps Rural Providers
  September 2007
  Using the power of group purchasing within a cooperative structure, the North Central EMS Cooperative (NCEMSC) is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) cooperative developed to serve Minnesota and surrounding states.
• Alliance for Hispanic Outreach and Regional Awareness Coalition
  January 2007
  The overarching goal of this proposal is to reduce health disparities in the Latino/Hispanic population in a four county area by increasing access to health care, providing health information and education, increasing direct health care services, improving occupational health and safety and developing community capacity and infrastructure to deliver culturally competent health care services.
• Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association, Inc. Project
  January 2007
  This partnership project was developed to impact dementia service and availability in a sixteen county area in northern Wisconsin.
• Healthiest Manitowoc County 2010 Project
  January 2007
  This project will enhance the efforts of Healthiest Manitowoc County 2010 (HMC2010) through the implementation of four initiatives: Know Your Numbers, High School Peer Health Education, Manitowoc County Network for Child Passenger Safety, and Healthy Teeth Healthy Kids.
• Ho-Chunk Nation Youth Fitness Project
  January 2007
  The need for this project was to address the overweight/obesity problem for Native American children ages 6-18 through an after-school based program involving fitness, nutrition and wellness (selfesteem) components.
• Rural Health Initiative (Stevens Point, Wisconsin)
  July 2005
  This project produced several innovative solutions to the lack of affordable dental care in the area by providing dental health services to low-income residents including: outreach, transportation to dental appointments using Head Start buses, and preventative fluoride supplements.