City of Milwaukee - File #: 221869

• File #: 221869
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 3/21/2023
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMITTEE
• Final action: 4/18/2023
• Title: Substitute resolution urging Ascension St. Francis Hospital to reconsider the closure of its labor and delivery unit.
• Sponsors: ALD. ZAMARRIPA, ALD. SPIKER, ALD. DIMITRIJEVIC, ALD. PEREZ, ALD. BORKOWSKI, ALD. RAINEY, ALD. COGGS, ALD. BROSTOFF, ALD. MURPHY, ALD. BAUMAN, ALD. CHAMBERS JR., ALD. STAMPER, ALD. WESTMORELAND, ALD. A. PRATT, ALD. TAYLOR
• Indexes: HOSPITALS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
4/21/2023	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
4/18/2023	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:0
3/31/2023	1	PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Appearing: Sponsor - Ald. Zamarripa Council member added as Co-sponsors: Borkowski, Rainey, Coggs, and Brostoff. There were no objections.	Pass	5:0
3/30/2023	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
3/27/2023	0	CITY CLERK	ASSIGNED TO

Number
221869

Version
SUBSTITUTE 1

Reference

Sponsor
ALD. ZAMARRIPA, SPIKER, DIMITRIJEVIC, PEREZ, BORKOWSKI, RAINEY, COGGS, BROSTOFF, MURPHY, BAUMAN, CHAMBERS, STAMPER, WESTMORELAND, PRATT, AND TAYLOR

Title
Substitute resolution urging Ascension St. Francis Hospital to reconsider the closure of its labor and delivery unit.

Analysis
This resolution urges Ascension Wisconsin to restore reduced services at its locations within the city of Milwaukee, and to fully restore the St. Francis Hospital labor and delivery unit, which was closed in late 2022. The resolution further urges Ascension Wisconsin to establish a one-year moratorium on any downsizing and service reductions at 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 of preserving healthcare services for Milwaukee residents, particularly in economically-distressed areas of the city.

Body
Whereas, Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization, and among the largest nonprofit healthcare system in the United States, with a healthcare division that operates more than 2,600 sites of care across 19 states, including 142 hospitals and more than 40 senior living facilities; and

Whereas, Ascension Wisconsin operates 24 hospitals, including Columbia St. Mary’s and St. Francis Hospital; and

Whereas, St. Francis Hospital has been an important healthcare provider on Milwaukee’s South Side since 1956; and

Whereas, Ascension St. Francis was the only hospital with a labor and delivery unit on Milwaukee’s South Side; and

Whereas, Ascension Wisconsin announced the closure of its St. Francis labor and delivery unit at the end of 2022; and

Whereas, The elimination of labor and delivery services at St. Francis leaves no labor and delivery care facility on Milwaukee’s South Side, and will force patients, many of whom are immigrant Spanish speaker...