Riverview Hospital

Hospital Profile:

• Riverview Hospital Association strives to "be a leader in providing and developing progressive, high-quality and cost-effective health care services" for the community. With the additions in the last 13 years of Riverview Family Clinic and UW Cancer Center Riverview, plus cooperative relationships with regional care providers, Riverview offers a wide array of specialty medical services that previously would have only been available in much larger systems.
• Riverview Hospital Association is an independent, community-owned health care provider that gets support from the Riverview Health Care Foundation, Riverview Hospital Auxiliary and the generosity of the community; this creates a culture that invests in those services for which there is a compelling community need. Riverview Hospital Association consists of Riverview Hospital, Riverview Family Clinic & UW Cancer Center Riverview.
• Riverview Hospital is licensed as a 99-bed hospital with a capacity of 79 beds for inpatient care and provides a wide range of outpatient services. Riverview meets the needs of 50,000 people who reside in South Wood County and the surrounding area.
• The state-of-the-art Riverview Tower, opened in 2009, contains spacious, all-private rooms for medical, surgical and pediatric inpatients. Amenities include isolation and bariatric rooms, infusion center, rehab services suite, three open air courtyards, two fireplace lounges and a family resource center.
• Riverview Hospital also offers a wide array of inpatient and outpatient services including Critical Care Unit, Diabetes & Nutrition Center, Emergency/Urgent Care, Family Birthplace, Imaging Services, Laboratory Services, Rehab Services, Respiratory Care Services, Sleep Lab, and Surgery and Outpatient Procedures.
• The Emergency Department has almost 30,000 visits per year and offers specialist services such as family physicians and internists, surgeons, orthopedists, obstetrics/gynecologists, pediatricians, ophthalmologists, ENT's and anesthesiologists.
• Riverview Hospital is complemented by the UW Cancer Center Riverview, which offers a full range of cancer services including medical oncology, radiation oncology, surgery and clinical trials. In 2006 UW Cancer Center Riverview became the first in central Wisconsin to offer state-of-the-art helical tomotherapy, the most sophisticated and effective Image-Guided Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy in the world. In 2009 UW Cancer Center Riverview became the first in the world to treat skin cancer with electronic brachytherapy, reducing treatment time and increasing comfort and safety for the patient and cancer center staff. UW Cancer Center Riverview is affiliated with the world-renowned University of Wisconsin Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center in Madison, the only comprehensive cancer center in Wisconsin as designated by the National Cancer Institute.

 

Hospitalist Program Profile:

• The Hospitalist Team of 4 Physicians 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 attend adult medicine inpatients, from admission to discharge, and will provide, as necessary, a variety of procedures in the ICU, respond to codes, unassigned ED call and complete consultations as requested.

 

Community:

• The hub of south Wood County, Wisconsin Rapids was rated recently as one of the best small cities in America. This includes the adjacent recreational area of Lake Arrowhead, Lake Sherwood and Lake Camelot. Safe streets, friendly neighbors and emphasis on family life entice professionals from nearby cities of Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Madison.
• The Wisconsin River runs through the heart of Wisconsin Rapids, enhancing year-round recreational activities from golfing, boating, fishing and hunting to winter sports. Shopping centers, theatrical productions, concerts and other regional arts events add to the community, which boasts an impressive Performing Arts Center and a new Community Theatre.
• Utilizing the Wisconsin River, south Wood County is a leader in the printing paper industry and the world's largest inland cranberry producer.
• South Wood County is known for excellence in education, with many award-winning parochial and public elementary and secondary schools.