OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) – Fox Valley and Milwaukee-based health systems that recently announced a partnership now plan to build hospitals in Oshkosh and Fond du Lac.
ThedaCare and Froedtert Health called a news conference today (Thursday).
Officials called them modern, smaller scale hospitals.
“Smaller scale hospitals are actually what most communities today require and they are fortified by our hospitals for example, in Neenah and Appleton and then Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, so when you need high complexity care, we are available as part of that continuity as well,” said ThedaCare president and CEO, Imran Andrabi.
The $110 million investment will build a 58,000 square-foot facility in Oshkosh and a 18,000 square-foot facility in Fond du Lac.
During the news conference, officials marked an area along the Fox River, west of Jackson Street and north of W. 9th Avenue in Oshkosh as the hospital site and in Fond du Lac, an area between W. Scott Street and W. Johnson Street was marked.
Both facilities will include a 24/7 emergency room, an ambulatory surgery center, a diagnostics center and will have both primary and specialty care physicians available.
The announcement comes about two months after Froedtert confirmed the purchase of a nine-acre property in Fond du Lac. At the time, Froedtert did not disclose its plans for the property.
Earlier this year, another health system, Advocate Aurora, said it would expand its existing Fond du Lac facility into a hospital. The area is also served by St. Agnes Hospital.
Existing hospitals in Oshkosh are Ascension NE Wisconsin – Mercy Campus and Aurora Medical Center – Oshkosh.
Last month, ThedaCare and Froedtert announced a partnership where Froedtert providers would offer specialty services to some ThedaCare patients in the Fox Valley.
