The Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW), Wisconsin’s largest health philanthropy, will invest more than $5.6 million over the next five years in projects designed to enhance the professional well-being of the state’s health workforce as an upstream effort to improve the overall health of Wisconsin.
AHW will fund a scalable, evidence-based strategy implemented by the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) to improve health workforce well-being and support a statewide health workforce professional services program to be administered by the Wisconsin Medical Society (WisMed). With a $3.2 million award from AHW, WHA will build a collaborative coalition to develop a long-term professional well-being improvement plan.
A $2.5 million grant from AHW will allow WisMed — in collaboration with the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Dental Association, the Wisconsin Nurses Association, the Wisconsin Academy of Physician Assistants and other professional membership organizations statewide — to establish the Wisconsin Healthcare Professional Services Program (WIHPSP), which will provide confidential referral and monitoring services for licensed health care professionals in Wisconsin who experience behavioral, psychiatric, substance use or other potentially impairing conditions. The WIHPSP will coordinate detection, prevention, evaluation, treatment and monitoring of licensed health care professionals with these conditions.
