Resources

Lutheran Hospital (La Crosse, Wis.), Volunteer Services Dept.
Volunteer workers in hospitals, Wisconsin, La Crosse.

Morgan, Jane A.

The purpose of this study was to measure the cost effectiveness of the Volunteer Services Department of La Crosse Lutheran Hospital, La Crosse, Wisconsin. The study consisted of the application of four formulae used to measure the department's cost-effectiveness in terms of: 1) Analyzing the cost of volunteer hours to the hospital. 2) Assessing the dollar value of volunteer hours to the hospital, and the return on the hospital's annual investment in the volunteer department budget. 3 ) Assessing the percentage of income accrued through volunteer activity in hospital shops. 4) Establishing the value of three selected volunteer services: a) Volunteer Escort Service, b) Mail & Flower Delivery, c) Volunteer Office Support Staff.
UW-L Seminar Paper

Hospitals -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse -- History
St. Ann's Hospital (La Crosse, Wis.)

Larkin, Virginia Marcotte

Written by Virginia Marcotte Larkin, St. Francis School of Nursing class of 1951 alumnae. St. Ann;s was a maternity hospital established by the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in 1912.

College students -- Health and hygiene -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
University of Wisconsin Student Health Center -- La Crosse -- History

Berquam, L. M.

The purpose of this research was to provide a chronology of the university of Wisconsin-La Crosse Health bCenter, address the changes it has witnessed and suggest recommendations for the future of its status. the need for this research resulted from concerns pertaining to the increase in student enrollment and the budget cuts instituted for the Health Center operation. The research illustrated three era's of the Helath Center's progress, the three era's examined were 1918-1970 when the Health Center was first instituted, 1970-1978 when the Health Center was in the Grandview Building, and finally 1978-present when the Health Center was housed in the basement of Whitney Center.
UW-L Seminar Paper

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse -- Students -- Research -- Periodicals
College students -- Research -- United States -- Periodicals
Journals
Political science
Public administration
Sociology
Archaeology

Krug, Carissa
Manley, Jordan
Robinson, Sarah
Vang, Nou

"Almost 15 percent of the nation's elderly face the threat of hunger" (Lieberman, 2013). From April 2013 to March 2014, the La Crosse County Senior Dining Program has served over 104,000 meals to 1,371 individuals. Food insecurity is often the primary motivation for utilizing subsidized meal programs offered by state and local governments, but is food insecurity the only motivation? By analyzing data from almost 100 USDA Adult Food Security Surveys collected in La Crosse County, we measured seniors' levels of food insecurity in addition to the frequency with which they utilize the La Crosse County Senior Dining Program. We conclude that the availability of the meal site program sponsored by the La Crosse County Aging Unit has allowed senior citizens in the community to sustain a program that builds individual health, social capital, and broader community health.
Published as part of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Journal of Undergraduate Research, Volume 17 (2014)

Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Medical personnel -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse -- Registers

Sondreal, Linda

Compiled by Linda Sondreal, this list of La Crosse healers includes physicians, midwives, dentists, chiropractors and other health-related practitioners in the city of La Crosse from 1840s to 1980s.

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse -- Students -- Research -- Periodicals
College students -- Research -- United States -- Periodicals
Journals
Sociology
Drug abuse -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse County

Reque, Kristin

Previous research has shown that injection drug use across the country continues to climb. Since the mid-1980s, injection drug use has become a topic of discussion among scholars, law enforcement, and policymakers. One solution implemented nationally over the past three decades are Needle-Exchange Programs (NEPs). NEPs offer a variety of services to injection drug users (IDUs) including providing sterile syringes to users for injection, cookers, tie-bands, cotton swabs, and more, while also providing other resources like condoms, alcohol pads, HIV counseling and testing, and referrals to substance abuse treatment programs. A lack of empirical evidence on NEPs proves troublesome when local communities are making decisions about whether to add or eliminate a needle-exchange program. This study investigated how different perspectives, attitudes, and life experiences of stakeholders who interact directly with IV-users and the local NEP in La Crosse, Wisconsin influence policy decisions in the area. Participants in the study included representatives from the local Police and Fire Departments, the La Crosse County Health Department, a State Representative of the NEP, and a Professor of Health Education at UW-La Crosse. While all participants agreed that drug use and discarded needles were a serious public health concern for La Crosse County, there were clear discrepancies among the stakeholders about how to address prevention and treatment for local users. This study addresses those discrepancies and identifies the most salient solutions offered by the stakeholders to address prevention, addiction, and treatment in La Crosse County.
Published as part of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Journal of Undergraduate Research, Volume 20 (2017)

Charles Conrad was a La Crosse area resident for his whole life, born in the late 1800s and growing up on a farm just outside of the city. In his interview, he discusses subjects like: his ancestry, Indigenous peoples, education, family life, working at a saw mill and grocery store, religion, movie theaters, the Red light district, Prohibition, clamming, the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), Black families, racism, early doctors and home remedies, and the Great Depression.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program

Norcross, Henry -- Interviews
Oral history
Oral history -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Interviews -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
La Crosse (Wis.) -- History
Recreation -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Railroad engineers -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Railroads -- Employees
Labor unions -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
La Crosse (Wis.) -- Social life and customs

Henry Norcross (b. 1899) describes his family background and life on French Island. Topics include but are not limited to: German ancestry, festivals, Milwaukee Railroad, farming, French Island and La Crosse tensions, education, winter, drowning accidents, diseases and quarantine (mumps, measles, chicken pox), Frank Powell and Buffalo Bill Cody, circus, summer fairs, Mary Hauck (doctor), early electric cars, Dr. McLoone and Bessie Moore murders, home remedies, Rubber Mills, railroad engineer, anti-German propaganda during WWI, Prohibition, bootleggers, tobacco usage, Great Depression, unemployment, being member of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) (audio cuts out here in the middle of his story), Lodge 754, union strikes and involvement, anti-Black racism and his perceptions of white working-class discrimination. Content warning: this interview contains racist ideas and language.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program

Van Loon, Maude -- Interviews
Oral history
Oral history -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Interviews -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
La Crosse (Wis.) -- History
Farm life -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
La Crosse (Wis.) -- Social life and customs
New Amsterdam (La Crosse County, Wis.) -- History

Van Loon discusses her ancestors' 1856 emigration from the Netherlands to Wisconsin, where they settled in New Amsterdam. She focuses on her father, John Van Loon, and also discusses general family life and her childhood growing up on a farm in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Topics also discussed include but are not limited to: ancestry, immigration from Holland, LaFleur family, New Amsterdam, Native Americans, Presbyterian Church, marriage and work, Childhood memories, diseases, Joseph Losey, her childhood home, her parents railroad tramps, birthday celebrations, farm animals, Christmas celebrations, farming and harvesting, education, Perkins family, Black Americans, childhood games, bluff hiking, agricultural and horticultural societies, traffic concerns with horses and cars, horse races, bird watching, food and cooking, farm labor, as well as local newspapers papers.
Warning, some bits of this recording has sound issues and the audio is incomprehensible.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program

Cuta, Paul -- Interviews
Oral history
Oral history -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Interviews -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
La Crosse (Wis.) -- History
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse -- Alumni and alumnae
Neighborhoods -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
La Crosse (Wis.) -- Social life and customs
Gund, Alberta Cuta -- Interviews

In this interview, Paul Cuta and Alberta (Cuta) Gund primarily discuss German and Czech culture during the early 20th century in La Crosse. Topics include but are not limited to: the family home (1016 Farnam Street), Bohemian (Czech) traditional names, Catholicism, parental roles, cigar making, commercial fishing, wooden boat building, Funke's Candy Company, gardens and growing vegetables, paternal grandparents, life in the family home, Hood-Powell Park neighborhood, religious divisions in town; German-Lutheran, German-Catholics, Bohemian-Catholics, Irish-Catholics, Holy Trinity Parochial School, activities at schools, fundraisers, sports, dancing, traditional Bohemian (Czech) food, World War II, La Crosse Tribune, fashion, war rations, street cars, Protestant and Catholic neighborhood relationships, The Strand Theater, recreation activities, school yard games, home remedies, Powells Park, Lapitz Grocery Store, shoe stores and cobblers, home funerals, Hammes Grocery Store, Bruha Selrite Grocery Store, Aboto's Confectionary, bicycling in 1940s, communications during Korean War, home-brew alcohol served in Bohemian Hall, Humms Bakery, Tabbert's Dry Goods Store, taverns, gasoline industry, Tomicek Car Service, financial loans, soap rations during WWII, Baum's Butcher Shop, Shimshack's Shoe Repair and Tavern, Not Your Uncle's Tavern, and the Prohibition era.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program

Oswalt, Sally -- Interviews
La Crosse Business and Professional Women's Club (La Crosse, Wis.) -- History
Oral history
Oral history -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Interviews -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Equal rights amendments
Equal pay for work
Women -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse -- Societies and clubs
Women's health services -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Health care reform

Oswalt discusses her involvement with the La Crosse Business and Professional Women's Club and efforts to achieve wage equality and health care reform and to improve the status of women in the workplace and society.

La Crosse County Medical Society

Powell, David Franklin, 1847-1906
Medicine -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse -- History

The La Crosse County Medical Society, its minutes and times / S.E. Sivertson -- The La Crosse Medical School / W.S. Miller -- Notes on Dr. David Franklin Powell, known as "White Beaver", [parts I & II] / M. H. Hebberd.

R.E. Parton

Social service -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse -- Directories
La Crosse (Wis.) -- Directories

Christ Church (La Crosse, Wis.). St. Mary's Guild

Directory of social welfare services of La Crosse, Wisconsin, compiled by the St. Mary's Catholic Church Guild in 1913.

St. Francis Hospital

United States
Wisconsin
La Crosse
St. Francis Hospital (La Crosse, Wis.)--Anniversaries, etc.
Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration (La Crosse, Wis.)

St. Francis Hospital (La Crosse, Wis.)

32 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse -- Students -- Research -- Periodicals
College students -- Research -- United States -- Periodicals
Journals
History

Schuster, Andrea
Waldbillig, Kelly
Zahorik, Jessica

The primary goal of the research was to complete the oral history of the UW-La Crosse Health Education and Health Promotion (HEHP) Department and house it with other university oral histories in Murphy Library. The interviews revealed a timeline of significant changes, some unique features of the program and faculty, and interviewees' predictions for the future of the program and the field of health education and promotion. This information was used in creating an informational brochure and a Microsoft Power Point presentation to be attached to the department home page. Both will aid in marketing the program to graduate and undergraduate students.
Published as part of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Journal of Undergraduate Research, Volume 5 (2002)

Wisconsin Public Television

La Crosse (Wis.)--History

David Hestad
Carol Larson
Wisconsin Public Television
Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Hometown Stories: La Crosse is a movie available in streaming video and transcript that follows the evolution of the city at the junction of the Mississippi, Black and La Crosse Rivers from its earliest days to the present. Also available here are links to teacher resources, an interactive map and gallery of the 1867 birdseye view of La Crosse, and a short history of La Crosse written by Michael Goc. This was produced through a partnership of the Wisconsin Public Television and the Wisconsin Historical Society.