Froedtert Hospital and Medical College of Wisconsin

Froedtert Hospital is located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin and is a teaching hospital and a Level I adult trauma center. It is the primary teaching affiliate of the Medical College of Wisconsin and has 735 inpatient hospital beds.

Froedtert is also an organ transplant center and was the first hospital in Wisconsin and the second academic hospital in the U.S. to be Primary Stroke Center certified by the Joint Commission. The hospital is operated by Froedtert Health and is partnered with other hospital systems in Wisconsin to provide the same level of care, and is closely affiliated with Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.

The hospital was founded as Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital and opened on September 29, 1980. It was named after Kurtis Froedtert, a businessman, who donated $11 million to found the hospital after his death in 1951. In February 2020, the hospital received public criticism following a federal inspection which revealed that the emergency room staff failed to check the vital signs of patients regularly in six out of 20 inspected cases. Despite the inspection results and criticism, the hospital was deemed to be in substantial compliance after the inspection.