Can you read a nutrition label?
It's a serious question. Did you know the single strongest predictor of an individual’s health status is literacy skills? It’s no doubt that health literacy affects positive outcomes for patients. Low health literacy causes poorer health knowledge, higher mortality, and ...
WHA releases 2015 Community Benefit Report
Wisconsin hospitals provided $278 million in charity care Wisconsin has one of the lowest uninsured rates in the country. That does not mean, however, that there are not people living in Wisconsin who need assistance with medical bills, or that everyone ...
Webinar recap: Hospital Finance 101 with Brian Potter
WHPRMS Webinar Series Presents: Hospital Finance 101: Making sense of cost and payment issues in the hospital marketplace Speaker: Brian Potter, VP, Wisconsin Hospital Association • bpotter@wha.org As a health care marketing professional, if you understand how hospitals are paid, and from whom, ...
5 events WHPRMS members should attend
(May 2015) This blog brings you Wisconsin health and medical news, events, in-depth industry leaders interviews, video clips and sometimes national news. This month, we’re focusing on local events. As always, if you have links, news or information to share ...
Q&A: Why you should attend the 2015 Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit with Steve Sparks
Low health literacy is directly associated with higher mortality, poorer health status and increased hospital and ER use. One-third of all adults have problems understanding even basic information; such as how to care for themselves after leaving the hospital or ...
