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Mar. 30, 2023
WHA Foundation Announces Application Open for 2023 Clinical Simulation Lab Scholarship
WHA Foundation is once again offering scholarships to Wisconsin member hospitals, allowing them to designate an interdisciplinary team to participate in clinical simulation training focused on stroke, sepsis/septic shock, opioid crisis or high-risk OB delivery.
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Mar. 30, 2023
Share Your Hospital's Quality Improvement Stories
The WHA quality team is gathering stories for our annual 2023 Quality Report, promoting the quality story within Wisconsin hospitals. If your hospital has a quality improvement project highlighting the important improvement work that occurred throughout 2022, we would like to hear from you.
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Mar. 23, 2023
WHA Information Center Celebrates 20 Years of Service to Wisconsin
This year the Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center (WHAIC) marks its 20th year of collecting and reporting discharge, financial and other types of data from all Wisconsin hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). And for two decades, WHAIC has been making that information publicly available at no cost to taxpayers.
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Mar. 23, 2023
Advocacy Day Bipartisan Legislative Panel Confirmed
WHA will have an outstanding legislative panel for 2023 Advocacy Day. Confirmed panelists include lawmakers from both parties who serve on the powerful budget-writing Joint Finance Committee: Co-Chair Rep. Mark Born (R-Beaver Dam), Rep. Evan Goyke (D-Milwaukee), Sen. LaTonya Johnson (D-Milwaukee) and Sen. Pat Testin (R-Steven Point).
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Mar. 23, 2023
2023 Physician Leadership Development Conference a Success
The 2023 Physician Leadership Development Conference was held in person March 10 and 11 in Kohler, WI for the first time since 2019. Click here for a summary of the conference.
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Mar. 23, 2023
WHA Urges Assembly Committee to Support Health Care Workforce Recruitment and Retention
Supporting urgent and sustainable efforts to grow Wisconsin’s health care workforce was a key point in testimony provided by WHA Senior Vice President of Workforce and Clinical Practice Ann Zenk at the March 16, 2023 meeting of the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means as the committee considered a bill is aimed at creating an advantage for Wisconsin in the recruitment and retention of psychiatrists and mental health nurse practitioners in their initial years of practice in mental health professional shortage areas in the state.
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Mar. 23, 2023
2023 Education Topic Survey for Hospital Members
Please complete a brief survey that will give you the opportunity to provide important feedback needed for WHA to continue to offer relevant, timely and valuable education for its members.
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Mar. 23, 2023
WHA Health Care Leadership Academy Participants Learn Why Quality Improvement is Important to Wiscon
On March 21, WHA Chief Quality Officer Nadine Allen and WHA Clinical Quality Improvement Manager Jill Lindwall taught the virtual Quality Improvement (QI) class as part of the WHA Health Care Leadership Academy.
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Mar. 16, 2023
GUEST COLUMN: Industry Voices—Let's be Transparent About Hospital Price Transparency
A guest column by Ashley Thompson, Senior Vice President, Public Policy Analysis and Development, American Hospital Association
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Mar. 16, 2023
As Drug Costs and PhRMA Profits Soar, New National Alliance Forms to Threaten 340B
On March 9, a group billing itself as the Alliance to Save America's 340B Program (ASAP) announced its formation as well as the set of principles it would like to see implemented that would vastly alter the 340B prescription drug discount program. The alliance is headed up by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and the National Association of Community Health Centers and includes 10 other groups.
