Who We Are
Mission & Vision
The Wisconsin High Value Network enables rural, independent healthcare providers to collaborate on clinical and operational initiatives, enhancing the quality of care, availability, and affordability in rural communities.
Wisconsin High Value Network Mission
Shared Purpose, Healthier Futures
Empowering independent healthcare providers to deliver high-quality, value-based care and build healthier communities through shared purpose, innovation, and collaboration.
Wisconsin High Value Network Vision
From Independence to Interdependence
By 2030, we will be Wisconsin’s most trusted rural health network, uniting independent, like-minded partners across the healthcare continuum to deliver exceptional care, reduce costs, and measurably improve population health.
Goals
- Enhance access to safe, high-quality, and person/family-centered healthcare in rural areas, ensuring that all community members can receive the care they need in a timely and effective manner.
- Engage Clinicians: Actively involve clinicians in the development and implementation of evidence-based clinical care processes to reduce clinical variation. This can include regular workshops, feedback sessions, and the establishment of clinical practice guidelines tailored to rural health contexts.
- Population Health Management: Explore and implement shared population health management strategies that harness data analytics to identify at-risk populations and tailor services accordingly.
- Broaden healthcare service offerings while optimizing operational efficiency to meet the diverse needs of rural populations effectively.
- Service Availability Assessment: Conduct a thorough assessment of current healthcare service availability, including specialists, imaging, and laboratory services. Use this data to identify gaps and areas of expansion.
- Shared Resources: Determine opportunities for shared clinical and administrative resources among healthcare facilities to enhance service delivery.
- Strengthen community health initiatives to minimize health disparities in rural populations, ensuring equitable access to care.
- System of Care Development: Develop a robust system of care that engages community-based organizations to create a holistic support network for health and wellness.
- Provider Collaboration: Convene healthcare providers across the continuum of care to enhance coordination and reduce service duplication. Establish communication protocols and referral systems to streamline patient pathways.
- Enhance the capacity of rural health organizations to thrive under value-based payment models, ensuring financial sustainability and improved patient outcomes.
- Resource Pooling: Pool resources among healthcare providers to aggregate covered lives, enabling more effective financial risk management and negotiating power in value-based contracts.
- Contract Assessment: Systematically evaluate proposed value-based payment contracts to ensure alignment with organizational goals and the capacity to meet performance metrics.
- Financial Risk-Sharing Models: Develop innovative financial risk-sharing models that allow for collaborative contracting opportunities among Wisconsin HVN members.
- Achieve Financial Sustainability for Wisconsin HVN and its member organizations.
- Membership Contribution: Implement a minimal membership contribution model from each member organization to support operational costs. Communicate the value of membership clearly to ensure buy-in.
- Service Offering Expansion: Expand Wisconsin HVN service offerings to members, focusing on those that deliver significant value.
- Financial Sustainability Plan: Develop and execute a comprehensive financial sustainability plan that includes revenue diversification strategies, cost containment measures, and ongoing financial assessment to adapt to changing circumstances.
Wisconsin High Value Network Values
Status of Independent Healthcare
Challenges of Independent Healthcare
In today’s evolving healthcare landscape, many of the most pressing challenges have led hospitals and physician groups to merge into larger health systems. These challenges include investing in advancements in diagnosis and treatment, controlling care costs, enhancing patient experiences, and fostering collaboration among clinicians. The fundamental reason behind this consolidation is scale. From enlarging patient populations and expanding physician networks to attracting top medical professionals – scale is often the answer.
For rural hospitals and clinics, achieving this scale can be an enormous undertaking. While merging with a larger health system is a viable option for some, many communities prefer to retain their local hospital’s undivided attention to cater to local needs.
Charting a Sustainable Path
The Wisconsin High Value Network was conceived in recognition of these challenges, founded on the principle that rural hospitals and clinics can unite to address these issues and bolster their resilience while maintaining their independence.
Through our network, rural hospitals and clinics join forces on clinical and operational fronts to amplify accessibility, affordability, and quality of care in Wisconsin’s communities. We are a beacon for more than 450,000 persons served, ensuring they receive nothing but the best care.
The Wisconsin Clinical Integration Network (CIN) was established to further enhance our collaborative efforts. This empowers our member hospitals to offer continuous care to patients across the network, from surgery and ophthalmology to mental health and obstetrics. The CIN’s Clinical Integration Committee, comprising a practitioner from each member hospital, supervises all clinical and quality initiatives.
Looking to the Future
Our exploration into collective solutions in areas like pharmacy, telehealth, IT, clinical staffing, and more is ongoing. Leading these ventures is our Business Integration Committee, a group of selected operations leaders from our member hospitals. This committee oversees our shared service offerings and serves as a collaborative platform for these leaders to address everyday business challenges and share resolutions.
At Wisconsin High Value Network, our commitment goes beyond healthcare; it’s about building a sustainable future for communities. As we move forward, we remain dedicated to our mission, united in our vision, and grateful for the trust placed in us by our members and the communities we serve.
Leadership Team
Nathan H. White, JD
President
A. Clinton MacKinney, MD, MS
Chief Medical Officer
Brett Norell, MHA, FACHE
Chief Financial Officer
Brittany Sachdeva, DNP
Chief Clinical Officer
Board of Directors
Carl Selvick
CEO
Black River Health
Black River Falls, Wisconsin
Marc Augsburger
CEO
Edgerton Hospital
Edgerton, Wisconsin
Tami Chambers
CEO
Grant Regional Health Center
Lancaster, Wisconsin
Marie Wamsley
CEO
Lafayette Hospital and Clinics
Darlington, Wisconsin
Robert Van Meeteren
CEO
Reedsburg Area Medical Center
Reedsburg, Wisconsin
Shawn Lerch
CEO
Sauk Prairie Memorial Hospital
Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin
Dan Rohrbach
CEO
Southwest Health
Platteville, Wisconsin
Mike Youso
CEO
St. Croix Health
Saint Croix Falls, Wisconsin
Bruce Roesler
CEO
The Richland Hospital
Richland Center, Wisconsin
David Hartberg
CEO
Vernon Memorial Hospital
Viroqua, Wisconsin