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Mukwonago medical center will become hospital
Published August 6, 2008 - BizTimes Daily
ProHealth Care plans to invest $75 million to $90 million to expand its Mukwonago outpatient center into a full-service hospital with 56 inpatient rooms and an emergency department.
The expansion project also will include a surgery center, an eight-bed intensive care unit, a cardiac catheter lab, a cancer center and a professional office building.
The Mukwonago facility, which opened in 2005 and is known as the D.N. Greenwald Center, is located at 240 W. Maple Ave., east of Interstate 43 and Highway 83. The expansion project will include the construction of a three-story inpatient tower. Two floors will be completed, and the third floor will be shelled in for the potential future addition of up to 24 more inpatient rooms. Construction is expected to begin in 2009 and will take 18 to 24 months to complete.
ProHealth Care says it wants to expand the facility into a full-service hospital because the Mukwonago area is growing, the outpatient clinic there is already busy and a large number of people from the Mukwonago area must travel to Waukesha Memorial Hospital for emergency and inpatient care.
Those patients will be able to receive hospital care closer to home once the new hospital is built.
"The hospital is being built in response to a need for its services in the community, just like ProHealth Care's two existing hospitals were," said Ford Titus, chief executive officer of ProHealth Care.
"Currently, residents in the (Mukwonago) region have to travel 20 minutes or longer to receive care at an emergency department or hospital," said Ed Olson, CEO of Waukesha Memorial Hospital. "The community has responded overwhelmingly to the outpatient services we brought to the area when we opened a large outpatient center in Mukwonago in 2005. By adding a hospital, the community will be able to receive outpatient, inpatient and emergency care at the same location."
The hospital will be called Waukesha Memorial Hospital-Mukwonago. It will be operated as an arm of Waukesha Memorial Hospital, and will use that hospital’s licensed beds.
The current Mukwonago facility is 150,000 square feet. The expansion project will add 137,000 square feet, including 100,000 square feet for the hospital and a 37,000-square- foot expansion of the medical office building.
The emergency department at the Mukwonago hospital is expected to handle approximately 11,560 emergency visits in its first year of operation, according to ProHealth Care.
"ProHealth Care's current Mukwonago facility was designed with the intent and ability to add inpatient hospital beds and services when needed," Olson said. "Because of this foresight in planning, the project will be much more cost-effective than it would be to construct an entirely new hospital."
