Aurora is a not for profit organization.
Aurora Health Care is designated a not-for-profit organization because we provide health care to the public which the federal
government considers an "essential community service". We re-invest all of our net income in the communities we serve, rather
than distributing it to individual owners or shareholders.
Aurora is the largest not-for-profit employer in the state of Wisconsin with over 28,000 employees serving patients in 90
communities.
We are passionate about providing our patients with the best care and are fully committed to
Our #1 Priority; giving people better results than they can get
anywhere else.
In 2008, across eastern Wisconsin,
Aurora Health Care provided more than $65 million in charity care and community benefits.
Aurora is a national leader in developing a comprehensive computerized patient record system and has won awards for being
"The Most Wired" for six consecutive
years.
We care about not only the health of individuals but also the health status of the population as a whole, using our
Care Management initiatives. Care Management is a focused,
coordinated approach to delivering care across a broad range of service locations, by many different providers of care,
at many different points in time. In 1995 we started a project to ensure that people with asthma were being educated about
the disease and being given the best treatment. That was the beginning of Care Management at Aurora, and we've been
going strong ever since.
Five Aurora Health Care hospitals are among the
top performers in a national
quality and safety initiative that provides new evidence of the power of quality improvement efforts to both save lives
and reduce costs.
The Clinical Research department at Aurora Health Care offers
a variety of clinical research studies including primary care, specialty, and sub-specialty areas.
Aurora Health Care's residency programs, in
partnership with the University of Wisconsin Medical School, are located at Milwaukee-based Aurora Sinai Medical Center
and Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center operating 10 community clinics in the Milwaukee area.
Aurora Health Care began with an affiliation between two Milwaukee hospitals in l984. We have 13 hospitals including several
all-digital hospitals and the first health center
designed entirely for women. Aurora currently has
two medical centers under construction,
one in Western Waukesha County in the Town of Summit and one in Ozaukee County in the Village of Grafton.
