Froedtert Hospital , (pronounced "fray-dert"), located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, is a Level I adult education and trauma center, one of two such facilities in Wisconsin. Froedtert is a major teaching affiliate of the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), where MCW students and residents receive their clinical education. Froedtert is licensed for 550 beds. Froedtert is located in the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center area, which is a consortium of six health care agencies.
Froedtert is the center of organ transplants, performing heart, lung, kidney, liver, and pancreatic transplants. Froedtert is the first hospital in Wisconsin and is the second academic hospital in the US to become a primary stroke center certified by the Joint Commission. The Eye Institute is located at Froedtert Hospital and manages all kinds of serious eye conditions. It is also a national ranking in the field of Endocrinology and Respiratory Disorders.
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Histori
Froedtert, founded as a Lutheran Froedtert Memorial Hospital opened on September 29, 1980, and was named after Kurtis Froedtert, a Milwaukee businessman who donated $ 11 million to find the hospital after his death in 1951.
Froedtert's opening year, serving as a "half-service" hospital, sharing operations with adjacent Milwaukee County Hospital, was renamed the John L. Doyne Hospital. In 1995, Froedtert purchased the Milwaukee County Hospital assets, and eventually served as a full-service hospital.
In 2001, Froedtert Hospital and Memorial Community Hospital in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin joined and formed Froedtert and Public Health.
In July 2008, Froedtert and Community Health purchased SynergyHealth in West Bend, Wisconsin, which included St. John's Hospital. Joseph, West Bend, and West Bend Clinic.
In 2010, Froedtert and Community Health changed its name to Froedtert Health. The name change is to create a more unified organization with the latest acquisition of health care systems.
Froedtert partnered with another hospital system in Wisconsin to provide the same high-level care in areas as it did in the metropolitan area of ​​Milwaukee, and is closely affiliated with Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, as both hospitals are on the same medical campus. Other hospital systems Froedtert partnered were; ThedaCare in Fox Valley, United Hospital System in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Agnesian Health Care at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
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Ratings
In 2007, Froedtert received a Profitable Cardiovascular Top 100 Hospital Award. It is undergoing expansion in Cancer Services, as well as emergency department renovations.
In 2009, a national scorecard that measures the clinical, safety, and performance quality of a non-profit academic medical center locates Froedtert & amp; Medical College of Wisconsin in the top 10 US academic medical centers.
The ranking is performed annually by the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), a national alliance of 103 academic medical centers and their 219 affiliated hospitals, representing approximately 90 percent of the country's nonprofit academic medical centers. UHC collects and analyzes data from its members on clinical, operational and patient safety performance, and releases annual quality and accountability scorecards
Sharing Campus Regional Medical Center with Froedtert is Ronald McDonald's Home, Wisconsin Children's Hospital, Curative Rehabilitation, Medical College of Wisconsin, and BloodCenter of Wisconsin.
Froedtert has been recognized by the National Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program.
In 2014, Froedtert was named the "Excellence Diagnostic Imaging Center" by the American College of Radiology.
References
External links
- Froedtert.com
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