Aspirus Wausau Hospital

Hospital Profile:

• Aspirus Wausau Hospital is a 321-bed tertiary care facility located in Wausau, Wis. It is the flagship hospital for the non-profit, community directed health system Aspirus, which employs 4,200 people who serve north central Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan through five affiliated hospitals, home health and hospice care; critical care and helicopter transport service; skilled nursing homes; an affiliated physician network; and an extensive clinics network.
• Aspirus Wausau Hospital is a Magnet designated facility and has been recognized for patient care excellence by independent organizations such as HealthGrades, US News & World Report and Thomson Reuters.
• Provides specialized care for elderly patients through the Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Unit.
• Aspirus Wausau Hospital is a Level II Trauma Center, and the Emergency Department had 26,065 patient visits last year.
• The medical staff has 345 physicians in 35 specialties.
• Aspirus Wausau Hospital provides leading specialty services through the Aspirus Heart & Vascular Institute, Aspirus Regional Cancer Center, Aspirus Women's Health program - which includes a 14-bed, single room care concept Newborn Intensive Care Unit and Aspirus Spine & Neurosciences Institute.
• Through a partnership with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Aspirus hosts and supports the thriving UW Wausau Family Medicine Residency.About 65 percent of Aspirus Wausau Hospital's family physicians graduated from the residency program.
• Outpatient services include diabetes and nutrition care, emergency and OB/GYN care, imaging, a reference laboratory, rehabilitation, respiratory care, sleep disorders center, and same-day surgery.

Hospitalist Program Profile:

• Hospitalist Team will provide adult inpatient care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Each full time Hospitalist will provide up to 192 hours of clinical professional medical services per month.
• The Hospitalist Team will follow adult medicine inpatients from admission to discharge, and also will provide a variety of procedures in the ICU, respond to codes, unassigned ED call and complete consultations as requested.

Community:

• Wausau is the seat of Marathon County, and located in the center of Wisconsin. It is the hub of a mid-size metropolitan center with about 75,000 residents in contiguous communities.Situated at the crossroads of Interstate Highways 29 and 39, Wausau provides easy access to Minneapolis, Minn.; Green Bay, Milwaukee and Madison, Wis.; and Chicago, Ill.
• Marathon County is wonderful for families, offering excellent public and parochial schools, and the cultural resources of a much larger population center. Examples include the Grand Theatre, Center for Visual Arts, Wausau Conservatory of Music, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum and Central Wisconsin School of Ballet.
• North central Wisconsin provides unlimited recreational opportunities for the outdoors enthusiast, including the full range of winter sports, excellent hunting and camping, top-tier golf courses, an extensive network of biking trails, and even one of the nation's top whitewater kayak and canoe courses. If the whitewater course on the Wisconsin River is too extreme, you could spend a lifetime exploring the excellent fishing in scores of lakes and rivers.
• The Wausau area is host to wonderful, eclectic events such as Big Bull Falls Blues Fest, Artrageous, Concerts on the Square, Harvest Fest, Balloon Rallies, the Badger State Winter Games and more.
• Learn more at the following sites:

• www.wausaucvb.com
• www.wausauchamber.com
• www.ci.wausau.wi.us
• www.co.marathon.wi.us