Marshfield Clinic

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Marshfield Clinic is a medical system with 41 centers located in northern, central and western Wisconsin as of 2006. It was founded in 1916 by six local physicians: K.W. Doege, M.D.; William Hipke, M.D.; Victor Mason, M.D.; Walter G. Sexton, M.D.; H.H. Milbee, M.D. and Roy P. Potter, M.D. in the community of Marshfield, Wisconsin. Marshfield Clinic operates as a charitable corporation with all of its assets held in a charitable trust. It is the largest private group medical practice in Wisconsin and one of the largest in the United States.

Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, a division of Marshfield Clinic, is the largest private not-for-profit research organization in Wisconsin. It is composed of five research centers: the National Farm Medicine Center, the Marshfield Epidemiologic Research Center, the Center for Human Genetics, the Biomedical Informatics Research Center and the Clinical Research Center.

Marshfield Clinic Education Foundation, Marshfield Clinic's education division, provides residency programs for medical school graduates in the disciplines of internal medicine, pediatrics, medicine and pediatrics, dermatology, surgery and transitional year. All programs are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) of the American Medical Association. About 125 members of the Marshfield Clinic staff hold clinical teaching appointments from the University of Wisconsin - Madison Medical School.

Marshfield Clinic's health maintenance organization (HMO), Security Health Plan of Wisconsin, Inc, was established in 1986 as an outgrowth of Greater Marshfield Community Health Plan, which began in 1971 as one of the earliest HMOs in the country. It serves more than 115,000 people in a 29-county area in northern, western and central Wisconsin.