IMMEDIATE ADOPTION
Number
180034
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. RAINEY, MURPHY, DONOVAN, BAUMAN, ZIELINSKI, BOHL, BORKOWSKI, KOVAC, LEWIS, JOHNSON, WITKOWSKI, PEREZ AND STAMPER
Title
Resolution urging Ascension Wisconsin to reconsider its plans to reduce its services in the City of Milwaukee.
Analysis
This resolution urges Ascension Wisconsin to reconsider its plans to reduce its services in the City of Milwaukee and to establish a one-year moratorium on any downsizing and service reductions at Wheaton Franciscan - St. Joseph Campus and other Milwaukee healthcare facilities. During that time, Ascension Wisconsin is urged to work with community leaders, elected officials and other local stakeholders to find alternatives to service reductions and ways to preserve healthcare services for Milwaukee residents, particularly in economically distressed areas of the city.
Body
Whereas, Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization, and the largest non-profit healthcare system in the United States, with a healthcare division that operates more than 2,600 sites of care, including 153 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities, in 22 states and the District of Columbia; and
Whereas, Ascension Wisconsin operates 23 hospitals, including Columbia St. Mary’s facilities and, since 2016, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare facilities; and
Whereas, Ascension Wisconsin operates Wheaton Franciscan - St. Joseph Campus, more commonly known as St. Joseph’s, which has been an important healthcare provider in Milwaukee for over 130 years; and
Whereas, St. Joseph’s provides emergency, obstetric, cardiac, critical care, surgical and physical rehabilitation services to residents in Milwaukee’s St. Joseph’s and Sherman Park neighborhoods and beyond; and
Whereas, Ascension Wisconsin recently announced plans to eliminate certain medical and surgical services at St. Joseph’s; and
Whereas, The planned elimination of services at St. Joseph’s leaves no general acu...
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