Ascension To Shutter Wisconsin Hospital

Ascension Wisconsin, part of St. Louis-based Ascension, said it will close the 30-bed Wheaton Franciscan Midwest Spine and Orthopedic Hospital and Wisconsin Heart Hospital in Wauwatosa on July 8. The services currently provided at that campus will be moved to Wheaton Franciscan - Elmbrook Memorial Campus in Brookfield. The consolidation is part of St. Louis-based Ascension’s acquisition of Glendale, Wisconsin-based Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare’s southeast Wisconsin operations that was finalized in March.

Renovation of the Elmbrook Memorial’s sixth floor surgical unit is underway, a second cath lab will be added to its cardiac service line . . .