Aurora to build new hospital in Grafton

Small Business Times, July 31, 2007

Aurora Health Care and Advanced Healthcare announced today that their new partnership will result in the construction of a new regional medical center to be built in Grafton.

The new regional medical center will be built near the Interstate 43 interchange at Highway 60 in Ozaukee County. Several sites are under consideration for the medical center, which will include a 24-hour emergency department, a Vince Lombardi Cancer Clinic and an array of other hospital services.

Advanced Healthcare and Aurora Health Care began discussing a potential affiliation last fall. The boards of directors of the two organizations endorsed an agreement in the spring, and the physician shareholders of Advanced approved the agreement in voting in July.

Under the agreement, the leadership team at Advanced Healthcare will remain intact and continue to oversee all of the operations of the 14 Advanced clinics. The clinics are located in Brookfield, Germantown, Glendale, Grafton, Hubertus, Menomonee Falls, Mequon, Milwaukee, New Berlin, Port Washington and Wauwatosa.

Advanced patients will have access to all of the services of Aurora Health Care, including the advanced tertiary care available at Aurora St. Lukes Medical Center, the outstanding care available to women and infants at Aurora Sinai Medical Center and the Aurora Womens Pavilion at Aurora West Allis Medical Center, and the home care services available through the Aurora Visiting Nurse Association.

Likewise, the thousands of Aurora employees and their family members in the Milwaukee area will have access to the primary and specialty physicians of Advanced Healthcare.