Froedtert Hospital
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Froedtert Hospital is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is southeastern Wisconsin's premier teaching hospital. It is an ACS verified Level I trauma center, and is the only such facility in southeastern Wisconsin. Froedtert is also a major transplant referral center, performing heart, lung, kidney, liver, and pancreas transplants; 289 transplants were performed in the 2003 Fiscal Year.
Froedtert is also the primary teaching affiliate of the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), where all of the MCW students do clinical rotations, and where 273 resident physicians are undergoing their graduate medical education. There were approximately 655 licensed beds, 1352 births, 46,449 Emergency Vistits, and 21,012 admissions during the 2003 fiscal year. In 2005, Froedtert was named by AARP as one of the top 10 hospitals in the US for kidney diseases.
Froedtert was founded as Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in 1980, named after Kurtis Froedtert, the Milwaukee businessman who donated $11 million to found the hospital after his death in 1951.
