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Washington Island health leaders visit BIRHC, 2006

Also Washington Island Wisconsin BIRHC Visit 2006

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TypeEvent
Date2006-02-09
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2006-02-09
Kind
Education
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
healthcarecommunitytransportationcommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

On February 9, 2006, four representatives of Washington Island, Wisconsin’s Community Health Program visited BIRHC to compare rural-island health services, staffing, wellness programs, finance, emergency transport, and mainland partnerships.

Evidence limits

This is a participant account of an exchange visit; it does not establish a formal partnership or later adoption of a two-nurse-practitioner model.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, March 2006, "Washington Island visits the BIRHC by Dr. Terry Henkel."
    Reports a four-person Washington Island Community Health Program visit to BIRHC to compare staffing, wellness, budgets, off-island transport, physician collaboration, and mainland health-facility relationships. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-03_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the health-program visit report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-03_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Washington Island health leaders visit BIRHC, 2006”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-washington-island-birhc-visit-2006/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 2006, "Washington Island visits the BIRHC by Dr. Terry Henkel." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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