Biography

Tim Size has been the Executive Director of the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative since helping to found it in 1979. The Cooperative is owned and operated by thirty rural hospitals with a focus on advocacy and shared services. He has long been a national advocate on behalf of rural health. Some of the RWHC shared services include health information technologies, quality improvement services, educational roundtables and health plan contracting. Among various appointments in Wisconsin, Tim is on the state's bond authority for hospitals, the Governor's Rural Health Development Council and the Wisconsin Leadership Institute's steering committee. Among national appointments, he serves on U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitti's National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services. He is a past president of the Rural Health Association and was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee that wrote Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health.