Current Successes

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Counties Collaboration Conference: Transportation - Keeping Us Moving
12.9.11

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Go Global:
Southeast Minnesota
11.29.11

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Buy Regional:
Business to Business
11.16.11

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50+ & Growing! Collaboration Compact Signing

 

 

Industry Profiles

Help Us Strengthen the Buyer-Supplier Relationships

7 Rivers Alliance facilitates the collaboration and sharing of information, technology, innovations and people to help our businesses become more competitive and to attract new businesses to the 7 Rivers Region.

Alliance

• Highlights from the 7 Rivers Alliance Annual Meeting: Looking Forward Download PDF
• Highlights from the 7 Rivers Alliance Conference: Forming a Competitive Region in the New Global Economy Download PDF
• Author Richard Longworth wrote a featured blog on the 7 Rivers Region called A Region on the Mississippi
• Highlights from Counties Collaboration Conference Download PDF

Healthcare

• For the fifth consecutive year, Gundersen Lutheran has been named a member of the Environmental Leadership Circle - Practice Greenhealth's most prestigious award, making it one of only 10 organizations who have received this award five years in a row.
• Gundersen Lutheran has been recognized among the top 5 percent of hospitals for emergency medicine.
• La Crosse-Eau Claire area named 24th in the nation for hospital care by HealthGrades, and independent health care ratings organization, which also ranked Gundersen Lutheran in the top five for clinical excellence for the fourth consecutive year.
• For eight consecutive years, Winona Health has been named on the nations Most Wired Small and Rural Hospital list.
• Gundersen Lutheran was named one of the nation's 100 top hospitals for the fourth consecutive year by Thomson Reuters, making it one of only 13 to receive this award four years in a row.

Education

• Winona State is ranked in US News medi Group's Best Colleges edition:
     * Second Best Regional University in Minnesota (49th overall)
     * 11th amongst Midwest public universities
• Winona State ranked in America's 100 Best College buys for the 15th consecutive year (one of only two Minnesota schools making the ranking)
• UW-La Crosse being US News & World Report's #2 best college on their "America's Best College" list.
• Western Technical College opened its new residence hall on the La Crosse campus.
• Top 12 America's Fittest Colleges (UW-La Crosse): Men's Fitness Magazine (2006)

Other

• Winneshiek County Extension has been awarded USDA Rural Development Grant
• Logistics Health was awarded the Wellness Council of America's Gold National Well Workplace Award.
• The Fifth Season Cooperative was officially launched, one of the first of its kind in the United States.
• La Crosse Ranked 16th in the "50 Smartest Places to Live" ranking by Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine.  That was the highest ranking for a city when looking at criteria such as housing prices, cost of living, economic vitality, education, health care, the local arts scene, and recreational facilities. 
• Top 10 Best Places to Live by US News & World Report (2009)
• Top 16 National Class A Single Trail Ride Centers by International Mountain Bike Association (2008)
• Top 13 Best Green Places to Live in America: Country Home Magazine (2007)
• 4-Star Logistics Metro Area: Expansion Magazine (2006)
• 5-Star Quality of Life Metro Area: Expansion Magazine (2006)
• Top 16 Smart Places to Live in the US: Kiplinger's Personal Finance (2006)
• Top 15 Best Places for Doing Business in America: Inc. Magazine (2005)
• Top 7 Safest Metro Area in the US by Morgan Quinto Press (2005)
• Top 16 Best Smaller City for Business and Careers by Forbes Magazine (2004)
• Top 16 Lowest Crime City in America by BestPlaces.com (2004)
• Voted One of America's Least Stressful Cities by Sperling's Best Places (2004)
• Winner of the Great American Main Street Award (City of La Crosse) (2002)
• Voted One of the Greatest Places to Enhance Your Quality of Life by Expansion Magazine (2002)
• Best Revitalized Downtown in Wisconsin by Wisconsin Trails Magazine (2002)