Licensed for 938 beds, Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center is the largest
private hospital in Wisconsin. It is a large primary care center serving
Milwaukee's south side, and a regional referral center in Interventional
Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery, Neurosurgery, Endocrinology, Medical
and Radiation Oncology, Gastroenterology, Physiatry and Hyperbaric
Medicine/Wound Care Management.
The St. Luke's campus continues to grow, with the recent addition of
a new ambulatory care center, Family Medicine Residents Clinic, new
intensive care units, new monitored inpatient-care floors and a new
state-of-the-art patient care tower. Facilities include over 100
intensive-care beds, a bone marrow transplant unit, cardiac, pulmonary,
and liver transplant programs, a hyperbaric chamber, a gamma knife,
24-hour CAT and MRI/MRA imaging, kidney lithotripsy, a physical medicine
and rehabilitation ward, and more. Three new physician office complexes
adjoin the hospital, housing primary and referral physicians
representing all major fields. The active physician staff exceeds 1,000.
Support services at St. Luke's are outstanding. Floors and units are
well staffed with highly qualified nursing and ancillary personnel.
Services include large cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation programs;
extensive programs in physical therapy, occupational therapy,
respiratory therapy and speech therapy; an ADA-certified diabetes
education and treatment program; and a hospital-affiliated home care
nursing service. Our pharmacy provides drug and TPN monitoring services.
Bedside computers are present throughout the hospital for efficient
review of patient data, including labs, test results and consultation
reports.
An in-house library providing major texts, journals, and computer
literature searches/article retrieval, is available 24-hours-a-day.
Computers equipped with on-line capabilities, interactive medical
education and diagnostics programs are readily available to all
residents. These and other outstanding hospital services assist
residents in quality patient management while providing the time and
resources to learn the practice of medicine.
Aurora Sinai Medical Center
Internal Medicine teaching service and ICU rotations take place at
Aurora Sinai Medical Center located in downtown Milwaukee
The neighborhood, known as Avenues West, is home to Marquette
University, as well as a mixture of homes, apartments, businesses,
medical practices and educational sites serving many ethnic and
socioeconomic groups.
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