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Strategic Actions: Patient Care

The provision of expert patient care that extends the boundaries of science to investigate, develop and implement innovative approaches to health improvement is central to our mission. Our pediatric and adult physicians provide comprehensive services and are committed to advancing the standard of health care in a patient-oriented system that is easy to navigate.

The College will maintain its leadership in the practice of medicine by leveraging our unique position as an academic medical practice that transforms the discoveries from our research laboratories into advanced patient care.

 


 

We will strengthen our clinical practice by:

  • Delivering excellent health care that emphasizes the creation and implementation of new knowledge and innovative technologies, while providing personalized patient care.
  • Providing coordinated, multispecialty medical care that utilizes the unique skills and strengths of our faculty and facilities.
  • Advancing the quality and efficiency of patient care.
  • Increasing the scope of our practice to position the Medical College of Wisconsin as the provider of choice for the region and its referring physicians.
  • Expanding our ability to offer patients appropriate access to a wide variety of clinical trials.
  • Developing high profile clinical programs based on new knowledge and treatment modalities discovered through translational and clinical research.


We will continue to lead in providing innovative, specialty and subspecialty care in the region by:

  • Capitalizing upon the expertise of the pediatric and adult practices to provide coordinated longitudinal care for pediatric patients with chronic conditions as they transition into adulthood.
  • Working collaboratively with our hospital partners—Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Froedtert Hospital, and the Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center—to develop and enhance multidisciplinary, integrated, disease-based clinical programs.
  • Expanding the use of medical informatics throughout the clinical practice to improve efficiencies and to facilitate patient care and clinical research.
  • Promoting electronic interfaces to increase the number of alliances with other health care providers.

 

Primary Hospital Affiliates

Froedtert Hospital
Froedtert Hospital (www.froedtert.com) is the primary adult hospital affiliate of the Medical College and is staffed by College physicians providing adult care in all medical specialties and subspecialties.

Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin are at the forefront of new technology and care in many areas, including cancer, heart disease and stroke, brain injury and disorders, spinal cord injury, limb reattachment, epilepsy, gastrointestinal diseases, diabetes, hearing disorders and women's health. Froedtert has the only adult Level 1 trauma center in eastern Wisconsin.


Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Medical College of Wisconsin pediatric specialists are on the staff of Children's Hospital (www.chw.org), the principal pediatric hospital affiliate of the College. Founded in 1894, Children's Hospital is the only Wisconsin hospital dedicated solely to the care of children and serves children with all types of illnesses, injuries, birth defects and other disorders. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is recognized as one of the leading pediatric hospitals in the nation. The hospital has one of only a few Level I trauma centers in the country devoted to pediatrics.


Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
The Zablocki VA Medical Center (www.visn12.med.va.gov/milwaukee) has been a major teaching hospital affiliate of the College since 1946. All physicians who staff the hospital are full-time College faculty. The VA Medical Center provides 170 acute care hospital beds. Annually, it admits 6,400 patients and records more than 527,000 outpatient visits. It is one of the busiest and most comprehensive centers operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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