Ascension Wisconsin changes impact patients, staff in multiple counties

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Ascension Wisconsin changes impact patients, staff in multiple counties

MILWAUKEE – Newly-announced changes for Ascension

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patients and staff could have wide-ranging impacts in multiple counties.

Ascension describes a building that opened in

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three years ago as a micro-hospital. It is now slated to close on Jan. 13, 2025.

Ascension Wisconsin facility in Waukesha

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Ascension Wisconsin facility in Waukesha

Ascension officials say the facility mainly provides emergency department and low acuity care services. A spokesperson points to five other alternative ERs within 15 miles of the location.

Ascension Wisconsin facility in Waukesha

This is not the only change Ascension

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announced this week. The company is also consolidating its labor and delivery units at St. Joseph Hospital, Columbia St. Mary’s and All Saints Hospital in

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Ascension is also consolidating its “cath labs” for cardiac patients, which will eliminate the department at St. Francis Hospital – and result in four layoffs, according to a union representative.

“If you are in this community here at

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and you have chest pain and you walk in to

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after Dec. 14th, you’re going to be transferred somewhere else,” said Connie Smith, President of

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Federal of Nurses and Health Professionals.

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Ascension is working to transfer workers to other locations. A spokesperson declined an interview.

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