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Lakeshore Health Care Alliance
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Region Covered
The Lakeshore Health Care Alliance serves Manitowoc and Sheboygan counties.
Mission/Purpose
The Lakeshore Health Care Alliance is a collaboration of health care, educational and community organizations. We address health care workforce development in Sheboygan and Manitowoc Counties by: sharing information, identifying needs, supporting new and expanding educational opportunities, and keeping health care careers and career ladders visible.
Leadership
Manitowoc County Organizations:
- Jan Adelman, Lakeshore Technical College
- Barbara J. Dodge, Lakeshore Technical College
- Laura Fielding, Holy Family Memorial
- Pam Fitzer, Northeast WI Technical College
- George Grinde, Silver Lake College
- Christine Jensema, St. Nicholas Hospital
- Marilyn Kaufmann, PhD., Lakeshore Technical College
- Carla LaFever, Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center
- Joyce Muelhlberger, Marsho Family Medial Center
- Jill Niemczyk, Northeastern Wisconsin Area Health Education Center
- Carrie Penovich, PHR, Aurora Medical Center, Manitowoc County
- Peter Platten, Aurora Health Care Center Central Region
- Sue Richison, CMA, Medical Arts Center
- Marty Schaller, Northeastern Wisconsin Area Health Education Center
Membership
- Aurora Health Care
- Holy Family Memorial
- Lakeshore Technical College
- Manitowoc County Health Care Center
- Marsho Family Medical Group
- Northeastern Wisconsin Area Health Education Center (NEWAHEC)
- St. Nicholas Hospital
- Sheboygan County Health and Human Services
- Sheboygan Medical Arts Group
- Sheboygan Progressive Care Center
- Sheboygan Senior Community
- Silver Lake College
- Sunny Ridge Health Care and Rehabilitation Center
- UW-Manitowoc
- UW-Sheboygan
Funding
Funding and support is provided by member agencies.
Schedule of Meetings
The Alliance usually meets once a month or when necessary.
Highlights
The Lakeshore Healthcare Alliance (LSHCA) has successfully formed a best practice, centrally operated, Job Shadow experience program for anyone considering a health career and desiring a view from inside.
Addressed community interest groups, focused on the need for health care employees, and provided information on the various health care careers and how to access education, including making health care careers available to all groups of people.
Also, the LSHCA has held workshops for counselors, enabling counselors to receive current information on health care careers so they can offer new information to potential students.
Sponsored a survey and identified the need for a local Bachelor of Science in Nursing and bachelor degrees that will advance health care employees performance and opportunities.
Linked with the Northeastern Wisconsin Area Health Education Center (NWAHEC), located in Manitowoc, due to common missions.
Our first collaboration was the Health Careers Summer Camp which took place in July of 2005.