Froedtert Hospital
Froedtert Hospital /ˈfreɪdərt/, located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, is a teaching hospital and a Level I adult trauma center, one of two such facilities in Wisconsin. Froedtert is the primary teaching affiliate of the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), where MCW students and residents receive their clinical education. Froedtert has 735 inpatient hospital beds.[2][3] Froedtert is located on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center grounds, which is a consortium of six health care institutions.
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Location | Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States | ||||||||||||||
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Care system | Private | ||||||||||||||
Type | Teaching | ||||||||||||||
Affiliated university | Medical College of Wisconsin | ||||||||||||||
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Standards | tertiary care | ||||||||||||||
Emergency department | Level I trauma center | ||||||||||||||
Beds | 735 | ||||||||||||||
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Helipad | (FAA LID: 2WI3)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Opened | September 29, 1980 | ||||||||||||||
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Website | froedtert.com | ||||||||||||||
Lists | Hospitals in Wisconsin |
Froedtert is an organ transplant center, performing heart, kidney, liver, and pancreas transplants. Froedtert was the first hospital in Wisconsin and was the second academic hospital in the U.S. to be primary stroke center certified by the Joint Commission.[4] The Eye Institute is located at Froedtert Hospital and manages all serious types of eye conditions. It is also nationally ranked in the areas of Endocrinology, Nephrology and Respiratory Disorders.[5]
Froedtert is partnered with other hospital systems in Wisconsin to provide the same high-level care in those areas as it does in the Milwaukee metropolitan area, and is closely affiliated with Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, as both hospitals are on the same medical campus. Other hospital systems Froedtert is partnered with: ThedaCare in the Fox Valley, the United Hospital System in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Agnesian Health Care in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
History
Froedtert, founded as Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital opened on September 29, 1980, and was named after Kurtis Froedtert, the Milwaukee businessman who donated $11 million to found the hospital after his death in 1951.
The year of Froedtert's opening, it functioned as a "half-service" hospital, sharing operations with the nearby Milwaukee County Medical Complex, later renamed the John L. Doyne Hospital in honor of the former county executive. In 1995, Froedtert purchased the MCMC assets and structures, and became a full-service hospital.
In 2001, Froedtert Hospital and Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin merged and formed Froedtert and Community Health.
In July 2008, Froedtert and Community Health bought SynergyHealth in West Bend, Wisconsin, which included St. Joseph's Hospital West Bend, and the West Bend Clinic.
In 2010, Froedtert and Community Health changed its name to Froedtert Health. The name change was to create a more unified organization with the health care system's recent acquisitions.
In February 2020, the hospital received widespread public criticisms when the federal inspection following the death of a female patient, who suffered chest pain and died after waiting at the emergency room for two hours, revealed that the emergency room staffs failed to check the vital signs of patients regularly in six out of twenty inspected cases. Such cases included not checking the vital signs for more than five hours of the patient who was brought in after taking painkiller and alcohol in suicide attempt.[6] It was also reported that the records of some patients were missing, including the case in which the staffs failed to keep or acquire the required signature of the patient who left the hospital against the medical advise.[6] Despite the inspection results and the criticisms from public, the hospital was deemed to be in substantial compliance after the inspection.[6]
Rankings
In 2007, Froedtert received a Solucient Top 100 Cardiovascular Hospital Award. It is undergoing an expansion in Cancer Services, as well as a renovation of the emergency department.
In 2009, a national scorecard measuring the clinical quality, safety and cost performance of nonprofit academic medical centers ranked Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin in the nation's top 10 of U.S. academic medical centers.
The ranking is conducted annually by the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), a national alliance of 103 academic medical centers and 219 of their affiliated hospitals, representing about 90 percent of the nation's non-profit academic medical centers. The UHC collects and analyzes data from its members about clinical, operational and patient safety performance, and releases an annual quality and accountability scorecard
Sharing the Regional Medical Center Campus with Froedtert is the Ronald McDonald House, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Curative Rehabilitation, Medical College of Wisconsin, and the BloodCenter of Wisconsin.
Froedtert has been recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program.[7]
In 2014, Froedtert was named a "Diagnostic Imaging Center of Excellence" by the American College of Radiology.
References
- "AirNav: 2WI3 - Milwaukee Regional Medical Center Heliport". airnav.com. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
- "About Froedtert". Retrieved 2020-03-16.
- "Froedtert prepares to open final phase of vertical addition in Wauwatosa". Retrieved 2020-03-20.
- "Primary Stroke Center Certification". The Joint Commission. Archived from the original on March 22, 2006. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
- "Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee". Best Hospitals - U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on July 18, 2008. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
- Linnane, Rory; Diedrich, John (February 25, 2020). "Tashonna Ward died after waiting at Froedtert Hospital ER. She wasn't the only patient whose care was delayed". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 2020-09-10.
- "Magnet Designation". Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin.