By HFT Staff

The Froedtert & MCW health network opened a new community hospital location in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Located at the Froedtert & MCW Drexel Town Square Health Center, Froedtert Community Hospital – Oak Creek is a fully licensed, accredited acute-care hospital. 

The small-scale community hospital location will offer around-the-clock access to emergency and inpatient care and will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. With 17,000 square feet, the hospital will have a seven-bed emergency department with eight inpatient beds for patients requiring additional care, observation and tests. The hospital will have laboratory, pharmacy and imaging services and is designed to treat medical emergencies that require attention beyond a health center’s or urgent care clinic’s capability.  

Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) emergency physicians and registered nurses will staff the community hospital locations, which are expected to see dozens of patients per day and to employ about 40 full-and part-time staff at each hospital. As licensed, accredited acute-care hospitals, they will be part of the Froedtert & MCW health network, follow its care and quality protocols and be connected to its electronic health records system.