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.

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. Froedtert is licensed for 655 beds.

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.

In 2007, Froedtert received a Solucient Top 100 Cardiovascular Hospital Award and is undergoing an expansion phase as well as renovatingand expanding the emergency department.