Wisconsin FQHC Intelligence

Scenic Bluffs posts September 1–2 as its next two-day dental-registration period, followed by October 1–2, November 2–3 and December 1–2. Registration is limited to residents of Crawford, Grant, La Crosse, Monroe, Sauk and Vernon counties and places a person on that month's contact list as exam appointments become available; it does not guarantee contact or an appointment.

A person not contacted by month-end must register again during the next open period. Patients unable to use the online form may call or visit during the open period without scheduling preference, and people in pain should call for standby information.

The page does not quantify slots, wait times, staff FTEs or outcomes.

Sixteenth Street reports that its first two advanced-practice-provider fellows started a 52-week, full-time program in October 2025. The current page says Fall 2026 applications are not being accepted and identifies April 1, 2027 as the next planned start, with a call for applications expected in Fall 2026.

The minimum 1,350 patient visits and ten patients per session for eight weeks are graduation requirements, not completed results. As of August 24, the page does not establish graduation, employee retention, permanent FTEs, completed visits, compensation, funding, capacity or outcomes.

Candidates should wait for the announced application call and should not treat a form of interest as an application or offer.

Wisconsin DHS now labels the rural-dental technology application period closed. The program planned up to $10 million, pending CMS approval, for technologies intended to improve efficiency and access.

The July 27 opportunity explicitly allowed a dental FQHC only when it served a rural or semi-rural Wisconsin community outside Milwaukee County and met the remaining requirements. The public program page does not name recipients or establish a signed agreement, payment, procurement, implementation, staffing, added appointments or outcomes; an applicant should rely on its official award notice before recognizing revenue or publishing results.

Wisconsin DSPS says it stopped accepting APNP applications and opened APRN and enhanced-practice applications on August 3 in preparation for the September 1 effective date. Pending APRN credentials will not be issued before September 1.

Active APNP credentials keep the same credential number when the profession name changes; active nurse-midwife credentials transition to APRN-CNM with a new number. Independent practice requires 7,680 total clinical hours, including at least 3,840 hours of APRN practice in the recognized role with immediate physician or dentist consultation availability, plus separate timing conditions.

Employers should verify the issued credential in the official lookup rather than infer authorization from an application or prior title.

WisBusiness reports that all 12 insurers filing 2027 rates for Wisconsin's ACA marketplace are requesting increases, ranging from about 11% to more than 30%, averaging 20.9% — figures drawn from rate review filings posted to the federal rate review system. The same article reports the observed damage already done by the enhanced-subsidy expiration: Wisconsin ACA enrollment fell from 291,336 at the end of open enrollment to 245,753 in February — a decline of nearly 46,000, or 16%, matching the national trend.

Insurers cite rising medical and pharmacy costs, higher utilization, and provider cost inflation. The article does not mention community health centers; the FQHC relevance is structural — in a partial-expansion state where childless adults above roughly the poverty line rely on the marketplace rather than BadgerCare, a second consecutive year of coverage erosion lands on health-center sliding-fee schedules, stacked on the work-requirement disenrollment risk arriving in 2027.

Directory-listed Partnership Community Health Center’s current homepage says it is accepting new medical, behavioral-health and pediatric-dental patients and directs patients to call 920-731-7445 for an appointment. The homepage also describes the organization as accepting new patients and providing medical, dental and behavioral-health care.

Its current provider roster corroborates active primary-care, behavioral-health and dental teams and identifies several clinicians as providing care since 2025, but it also marks one family physician as not accepting new patients. This is an organization-level intake signal, not a guarantee that every clinician, service, age group, location or appointment time is available.

The pages do not report open panels, appointment slots, same-day access, wait times, visits, staffing or FTE, whether listed clinicians are net additions, costs or outcomes.

Kenosha Community Health Center's Pillar Health brand reported that its Seal-A-Smile team visited 29 of the program's 30 schools during the 2025–2026 school year and that 2,297 students enrolled for access to school-based preventive oral-health services. The sites included eight Head Start programs and four middle schools recently added to reach older students; the named field team comprised two dental hygienists and two dental assistants.

Pillar says it will add KTEC Schools of Innovation and Randall Consolidated School during the next school year. The source does not report completed clinical visits or services per enrollee, dental outcomes, program costs, staff FTEs or a precise opening date for the added schools.

WPHCA's April 13 release says that, according to 2024 data, 58% of Wisconsin community-health-center patients were enrolled in Medicaid and 17% were uninsured. WPHCA presents those shares as context for its interest in Medicaid coverage and care gaps.

These are statewide CHC payer-mix percentages, not patient counts, and the release does not support claims about a $6.2 million enacted increase, hospital-tax policy or workforce grants.

The Wisconsin Legislature's status page records Senate Bill 50 as failed to pass on March 23, 2026 under Senate Joint Resolution 1. The bill text would have barred specified reimbursement reductions and participation-based fees tied to 340B status for covered entities including FQHCs, critical access hospitals and Ryan White grantees, as well as covered pharmacies and contract pharmacies.

Because the bill failed, those proposed provisions did not become law; the cited page does not quantify health-center revenue effects or compare Wisconsin with other states.

WPHCA's current Performance Excellence page identifies Access Community Health Centers as the 2025 winner for a team-based, patient-centered hypertension-management initiative. The association says its annual award recognizes a specific interprofessional improvement or innovation team through an external review process.

The live page does not expose participant counts, blood-pressure results, a control group, cost results or an independent evaluation, so this record preserves the award decision without converting the recognition into a measured clinical, financial or causal outcome.

Progressive Community Health Centers, Inc. announced that its expanded substance-use-disorder program at Lisbon Avenue Health Center included three dedicated providers offering appointments throughout the week, supported by an HRSA Behavioral Health Services Expansion grant. Services include buprenorphine/naloxone and extended-release injectable naltrexone for opioid-use disorder, plus oral or injectable naltrexone and acamprosate for alcohol-use disorder; the operator also reported updated behavioral-health workflows and dedicated access personnel.

Its current service page continues to list three SUD providers at Lisbon Avenue. Patients must be established primary-care patients. The sources do not state the grant amount, provider FTEs, whether positions were new or reassigned, patient panels, visits, wait times, utilization, retention or clinical outcomes.