Year End Update from the CV Health Cooperative

Dear Friends:

As the year comes to an end, we want to take a moment to reflect on what you helped the Chippewa Valley Health Cooperative accomplish. This year has been all about making progress, sticking with it, and believing that our community deserves access to exceptional, affordable and local healthcare—and that we can build it together.

We’re very grateful to the Casper Foundation and Rutledge Charities for their generous combined grant awards of $750,000 to help us reopen the Chippewa Falls hospital. You can read more about their grant here. With these grants and last month’s grant from the Eau Claire Community Foundation, we are gaining important traction with key local supporters.  

Thanks the support of our members and supporters in our vision, and trust, we have reached amazing milestones:  

·        We bought the old St. Joseph's Hospital in Chippewa Falls, which is a big step toward bringing back important care options for more than 70,000 people who were directly, and the tens of thousands of others indirectly, affected by the HSHS and Prevea closures in 2024. This will be our temporary, interim hospital as we build our new hospital in Lake Hallie.     

·        We’ve opened the Cancer Center in the Chippewa Falls facility, and by summer 2026, we will be fully operational as a full-service hospital with Emergency, Surgical, Intensive Care, Labor and Delivery, Wound Care, and many other healthcare services. This facility will create more than 350 local jobs next year.    

·        We keep working on building a cooperative that is truly community-led. We now have more than 1,450 members and are a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that is run by the people of the Chippewa Valley and only serves their needs.        

·        We’ve continued working with local physicians, who remain deeply committed to caring for this community. More than 100 independent doctors are ready to serve on the medical staff at the interim and new hospital, and hundreds of other medical professionals have said they want to join us when we start hiring.   

This progress belongs to all of us. It shows what can happen when neighbors work together with purpose and determination, especially during one of most challenging healthcare crises our region has ever faced. You can read Volume One’s latest story about the Cooperative at “CV Health Cooperative Makes Significant Strides Ahead of Holidays.”  

If you are in a position to make a year-end contribution, your support will help accelerate our work in 2026: completing needed infrastructure, licensing, bringing new services online, and continuing to grow community ownership of the once-in-a-generation project. Support us with a gift via check or credit card. Please make your donation payable to: Chippewa Valley Health Cooperative, PO Box 398, Chippewa Falls, WI 54729. Click here to make a credit card donation online. If sending your gift via mail, please make sure your envelope is postmarked by December 31 for your donation to count in the 2025 tax year.

We move forward with every gift, no matter how big or small.

Thank you for your continued interest in our work to build a healthier future for every family in the Chippewa Valley.

With gratitude,  

The Board of Directors
Chippewa Valley Health Cooperative