Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative

Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative, doing business as Rural Wisconsin Health Coop, is a non-profit healthcare organization headquartered in Sauk City, Wisconsin, that delivers quality measure data collection and reporting services to federal healthcare agencies as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards), competing without set-aside designation. The organization specializes in healthcare data collection, analysis, and quality assurance services for tribal and federal healthcare facilities, with a concentrated customer footprint in the Indian Health Service and a smaller grant program portfolio from the Health Resources and Services Administration.

Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative operates almost exclusively under two parent vehicles with the Indian Health Service. The vendor holds a $250,000 Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA 75H71120A00054) with IHS that originally supported data collection for the Claremore and Lawton Indian Hospitals in Oklahoma and has since expanded nationwide; nine task orders against this BPA carry $164 thousand in combined potential value. All eight of the vendor's recent prime contract awards flow through IHS, reflecting the organization's core mission of supporting quality metrics reporting for American Indian and Alaska Native healthcare programs. Representative work includes a $36,745 firm fixed-price purchase order (awarded December 2025, completing June 2026) for The Joint Commission Data Quality Indicator Collection and Submission and Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program support across IHS hospitals, a $23,615 BPA call (March 2025) for TJC data quality indicator collection and submission services, and a $25,000 BPA call (January 2024) for QAPI and TJC quality metrics tracking and reporting at Claremore Indian Hospital.

Customer concentration is pronounced: the Indian Health Service accounts for 42 awards and $838 thousand in combined potential value across 89% of the vendor's total award count. The Health Resources and Services Administration and the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service account for the remainder. The vendor also acts as sub-recipient on one federal grant from the University of Wisconsin System under the Health Resources and Services Administration (awarded October 2025), providing quality indicator program services including chart-abstracted measures, electronic clinical quality measures, benchmarking reports, and technical consulting to participating hospitals.

Recent grant work reflects a shift toward larger, longer-term awards: Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative received a $999,869 project grant (awarded September 2026) from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy under the Rural Maternity Obstetric Management Strategies Program (CFDA 93.912) to develop and implement a network approach to maternity services across rural Wisconsin through September 2030. The grant supports creative service delivery models, telehealth implementation (including tele-NICU and maternal-fetal medicine), quality improvement infrastructure, and educational programming for rural maternity workforce stability.

Activity has remained modest but consistent — one to three awards per year over the past five years — with a combined obligated amount of $4.6 million against $884 thousand in combined potential value, reflecting multi-year invoicing and performance extension patterns typical of ongoing quality data collection work. No recompete cliff is evident; the vendor's IHS BPA and grant portfolio support steady, renewable task-order and renewal activity.