Marshfield Clinic

Marshfield Clinic

Type	Non-profit organization
Industry	Healthcare
Founded	Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States (1916)
Founder	K. W. Doege, MD William Hipke, MD Victor Mason, MD Walter G. Sexton, MD H. H. Milbee, MD Roy P. Potter, MD
Headquarters	Marshfield, WI, United States
Area served	North America
Revenue	$1.12 billion USD (FY 2011)[1]
Divisions	Diagnostic and Treatment Center Family Health Center Flambeau Hospital Heritage Foundation Lakeview Medical Center Marshfield Clinic Education Foundation Marshfield Clinic Information Services[2] Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation Marshfield Food Safety Marshfield Labs Security Health Plan of Wisconsin
Slogan	Don't just live. Shine.
Website	https://www.marshfieldclinic.org/

Marshfield Clinic is a health care system in northern, central and western Wisconsin, with two hospitals and over 50 clinic locations as of June 2015.^[3]

History

The clinic was founded in 1916 by six local physicians: K.W. Doege, William Hipke, Victor Mason, Walter G. Sexton, H.H. Milbee, and Roy P. Potter, in the community of Marshfield, Wisconsin.

Component centers

Marshfield Clinic supports a number of centers and foundations:

• Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation is a not-for-profit research organization 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 focusing on biomedical informatics research and the Clinical Research Center.^[4]
• The Laird Center for Medical Research, named after former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Melvin Laird, is a medical research and education facility on the campus of Marshfield Clinic. The Lawton Center for Medical Research is a similar facility dedicated to Dr. Ben Lawton, a prominent thoracic surgeon at Marshfield Clinic during the 20th century and a president of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
• 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 School of Medicine and Public Health.
• Marshfield Clinic Laboratories is a system of laboratories that employs more than 450 people and performs more than 20 million tests annually. In addition to human medicine, it has established separate service lines for forensic toxicology, food safety and veterinary diagnostics. In 2003, Marshfield Clinic Laboratories diagnosed the first case of human monkeypox in the Western Hemisphere.
• Marshfield Clinic's health maintenance organization (HMO), Security Health Plan of Wisconsin, Inc., was established in 1986 as an outgrowth of the Greater Marshfield Community Health Plan, which began in 1971 as one of the earliest HMOs in the country.
• Marshfield Food Safety, LLC is a food testing laboratory, founded by Marshfield Clinic in 2002. Marshfield Food Safety, LLC has grown to be a network of 11 laboratories that are accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2005. Services include ensuring safety of food and food production areas using pathogen/microbiological detection]^[5], plus capability at Marshfield location for analysis of food chemistry including: nutrition components, proximates, elemental impurities, pesticide residues, drug residues, allergens, and mycotoxins.^[6]

Information technology

Marshfield Clinic has an electronic health records system.^[7] The clinic is a member of the Vaccine Safety Datalink.^[8]

Galley

Marshfield Clinic
Marshfield Clinic main building  One of Marshfield Clinic buildings  The Laird Center for Medical Research on the Marshfield Clinic campus  Clinic in Mercer

References

External links

• Marshfield Clinic website
• Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation website
• Security Health Plan website
• Marshfield Clinic Laboratories
• Marshfield Food Safety, LLC