News
We work to help all people who touch the lives of families and children. From educational support staff to medical professionals and everyone in between, our goal is to help all people stay up-to-date on the latest news and events affecting children’s health and well-being across Wisconsin. Use the categories along the right side to select an initiative of interest or scroll through our posts to read all Alliance news.
Wisconsin dental hygienists double as authors
Two Wisconsin hygienists, Rachel Grider and Jessica O'Leary, have written children's books focusing on the importance of oral health at an early age. If The Dentist Were An Animal [...]
Wisconsin EMSC receives funding for pediatric emergency care coordination
Wisconsin EMSC was awarded a supplemental Health Resources and Services Administration grant to improve pediatric pre-hospital care. The grant will be used to increase the number of Wisconsin emergency [...]
2018 Clinical Report on Health Care Transition in the Medical Home
In Wisconsin, only 21 percent of adolescents with special health care needs and 18 percent of adolescents without special health care needs receive services necessary to make transitions to [...]
American Academy of Family Physicians provides tool connecting patients with local resources
Conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play affect a wide range of health risks and outcomes. To help address social determinants of health, the American Academy [...]
Reach Out and Read Wisconsin provides education, networking and awards during annual meeting
More than 100 clinic staff and partners attended the Reach Out and Read Wisconsin annual meeting on Oct. 5 in the Wisconsin Dells. The event featured a keynote presentation [...]
Alliance partners unite #ForKidsHealth
On Monday, Oct. 1, Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin celebrated the 90th annual National Child Health Day with a social media campaign. More than 200 legislators, partners and child [...]
Delta Dental of Wisconsin receives 2018 Warren LeMay Oral Health Champion Award
The Wisconsin Oral Health Coalition presented Delta Dental of Wisconsin with the Warren LeMay Oral Health Champion Award at the 2018 Wisconsin Oral Health Conference. This award is given [...]
Emergency departments focus on pediatric readiness
The EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center is spearheading a n ationwide quality improvement collaborative to improve pediatric readiness in emergency departments. Fourteen Wisconsin emergency departments have joined the Pediatric [...]
10 Tips for pediatric emergency care
By Carly Baumann, Certified Child Life Specialist The hospital can be a frightening place for children. Child Life Specialists help to make the hospital less scary for kids by normalizing [...]
CDC renews funding for SUID and SDY work
Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin was refunded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue participation in the Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) and Sudden Death in [...]
Sending a grieving child back to school
Going back to school is always a transition, but grieving a death can make the changes even more difficult. It is often easier for families to gather around each [...]
Alliance recognized nationally as children’s health quality improvement leader
Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin has been recognized by the National Improvement Partnership Network as an Improvement Partnership (IP) program for the state of Wisconsin. An IP is a [...]
