Больница Froedtert: Ведущий медицинский центр Висконсина

Froedtert Hospital /'//f//r//ei//d//@r//t/, 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. Froedtert is located on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center grounds, which is a consortium of six health care institutions. Froedtert is an organ transplant center, performing heart, lung, 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. 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. The hospital, operated by Froedtert Health, 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.

Froedtert, founded as Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, opened on September 29, 1980. It was named after Kurtis Froedtert, a 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 criticism when a 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 staff 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 a patient who was brought in after taking painkillers and alcohol in a suicide attempt. It was also reported that the records of some patients were missing, including a case in which the staff failed to get the required signature of a patient who left the hospital against medical advice.