Ascension Wisconsin will close its Waukesha micro-hospital, Ascension Wisconsin Hospital – Waukesha, located at 2325 Fox Run Blvd., effective Jan. 13, and will also close the labor units at Elmbrook Hospital in Brookfield and Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital-Ozaukee in Mequon. The labor unit services will be consolidated to St. Joseph Hospital in Milwaukee, Columbia St.
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Ascension also announced plans to invest $10 million to develop a comprehensive behavioral health center at St. Francis Hospital in Milwaukee. This move aims to centralize “all Ascension’s SE Wisconsin inpatient behavioral health care at the site with up to 60 available inpatient beds,” the news release states. This behavioral health center will also offer addiction treatment services. Construction will be completed by July.
Because of this consolidation, inpatient behavioral health services from All Saints Hospital in Racine and Columbia St. Mary’s in Mequon will transition to St. Francis Hospital “over time,” Moorman said. This will help “to best manage the significant resources required to provide round-the-clock, optimal care for the community,” Moorman said, and that 