Presentations & News
Green County Community Health Report 2023: Boosting Population Health
March 23, 2023
CDC Foundation: Health Empowerment Funds &
Community Health Shark Tank Event
March 2023
2022 Heart Health Equity Learning Series
Healthviews Magazine 2022 – New DrPH Scholarship in Equity and Anti-Racism – André Scholarship
Fall 2022
Community Health Workers in Wisconsin – Community Health Program Summer 2021
September 7, 2021
Green County Development Corporation – Business Engagement:
Community Health Update
May 20, 2021
WCHF Summer Community Health Learning Program and State Health Plan Update
December 16, 2020
Green County Development Corporation – Business Engagement: Building Systems of Community Health
November 19, 2020
Back to School – Community Health IS Cool Video – Wisconsin Community Health Fund Summer Learning Program
Summer 2020
National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention – American Heart Association: Million Hearts® Collaboration – Partner Spotlights
Wisconsin’s Green County Moves Business Leaders to Promote Community Health
May 2020
Bridges to Heart Health Presentation with the Wisconsin Chronic Disease Prevention Program
November 2019
Green County Development Corporation
Business and Community Health Engagement
September 19, 2019
Wisconsin Heart Health Community of Practice Webinar
Team-Based Care: A Chronic Disease Management Strategy
June 6, 2019
Wisconsin Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Coalition Webinar
February 27, 2018
Association of Public Health Nursing National Webinar
A Wisconsin Community-Clinical Linkage Hypertension Prevention Strategy
November 6, 2017
University of Illinois – Chicago
Community Health Funds and Leadership in Public Health
August 28, 2017
Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin Conference
Supporting Community Health:
A Spectrum of Population Health Efforts
April 6, 2017
Edgewood College MBA Program
Community Health Improvement Via Digital Health and Expanded Community-Clinical Linkage Systems
May 1, 2017
Edgewood College School of Business Executive Speaker Series Perspectives on Value and Quality in Healthcare
April 19, 2017
New Glarus School Nurse Kayla Zimmerman, New Glarus High School Principal Jeff Eichelkraut and Rebecca Thompson, Director of the Wisconsin Community Health Fund. Zimmerman coordinated the event for the district.
Post Messenger Recorder
Green County Healthy Hearts
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February 16, 2017 | Vol. 133, No. 7
In the month of February and beyond, residents of Green County can take advantage of exploring opportunities for healthy hearts. Chances are high that you, or someone in your family, will be affected by Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD). Cardiovascular diseases, including heart disease and stroke, unfortunately kill nearly 1 in 3 people in Wisconsin and represent the leading cause of death in women age 25 or older.
So, what can we do to prevent death and heart disease? The good news is that 80% of cardiovascular diseases are preventable with education and action. Education means understanding the numbers that effect heart health, which are: Total Cholesterol, HDL (good) Cholesterol, Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar, and Body Mass Index (BMI). Clinics, hospitals, pharmacies and self-monitoring tools are available to help you understand your numbers and risks for heart health challenges.
Wisconsin Community Health Fund
AGENDA FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES 2017
Million Hearts Looks to Fight Hypertension in Wisconsin
June 15, 2016
The leader of a national initiative aims to raise public awareness that most heart attacks and strokes are preventable by working with partners across the country, including organizations in Wisconsin.
"It's a matter of taking the reins and making that happen" said Dr. Janet Wright, Million Hearts executive director. "Not that that's easy. But in Wisconsin, that's what people are doing. They're taking control of this and they're going to push back heart disease."
Million Hearts, co-led by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and launched in 2012, seeks to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes by 2017.
Wright said Wisconsin has been a "fertile field" for partnership.
"There's a culture of collaboration in the state that is extraordinary," Wright said at the Statewide Quality Improvement Event Tuesday in Madison. "Not only is this a collaborative place, but it's specifically focused on health and health outcomes. And it feels like it's everybody's job."
A Wisconsin version of the program was developed in 2012 and revamped in 2015 as the Million Hearts Wisconsin Blood Pressure Improvement CHALLENGE. The one-year campaign, which started last November, aims to collect stories on efforts to reduce high blood pressure in clinical, community and parish settings.
The challenge, directed by the Department of Health Services Division of Public Health Chronic Disease Prevention Program, is supported by a number of partners, including MetaStar and the Wisconsin Community Health Fund.
Wright said the national effort, which is winding down, has led to major efforts to address hypertension. Now large organizations, like the American Medical Association and American Heart Association, "are lending their huge shoulders to the wheel," she said.
Wright sees Smarter Management and Resource Use for Today's Complex Cardiac Care, also known as SMARTCare, as part of Million Hearts since many of those who designed the program became advocates for the national initiative.
SMARTCare, developed by the Wisconsin and Florida chapters of the American College of Cardiology, gives physicians and patients a set of communication and collaboration tools to address heart disease.
She believes the initiative "is going to be able to teach a lot of places around the country on how to improve outcomes."
Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Unit
A Bridge To Community Health Meeting
November 17, 2015
State Forum Event
May 1, 2015
Wisconsin Community Health Fund – Rebecca Thompson, Wisconsin Community Health Fund
Building a Vision of Population Health: What Should We Strive For? Dr. David Kindig, Founder and Senior Emeritus Faculty of the UW Population Health Institute
The Context of Chronic Disease – Mary Pesik, Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Team, Wisconsin Department of Health Services
What does “Better” Look Like? Karen Timberlake, Director, UW Population Health Institute
Community Health Trust Models
Sara Gardner, Executive Director, Fund for Public Health in New York
Carlene Pavlos, Director, Bureau of Community Health and Prevention, Massachusetts Prevention and Wellness Trust
Wisconsin State Journal
Health Sense: New Fund Aims to Improve State's Health
April 26, 2015