HSHS generated significant controversy in 2024 when it abruptly closed two major hospitals in Northwestern Wisconsin, disrupting care for thousands of patients in the region, including hundreds of pregnant women who were left with no place to give birth.[3] CEO Damond Boatwright attracted attention for making misleading claims about the closures, suggesting that state and local government officials had been promptly notified about the closures when neither local officials nor the Wisconsin governor had received such notice.[4]
The Hospital Sisters Health System was created in 1978 by the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis to manage their network of hospitals in Illinois and Wisconsin.[6]
In 2008, HSHS created the HSHS Medical Group to help coordinate care between their hospitals.[5]
Sacred Heart Hospital was a 216-bed hospital in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.[10] The hospital was affiliated with the University of Wisconsin.[11] This location abruptly closed on March 22, 2024.[12] The City of Eau Claire called for the State of Wisconsin to revoke HSHS's license to operate its other Wisconsin facilities, arguing that HSHS had endangered patients by failing to coordinate continuity of care and concealing information about the closure from local governments, forcing an emergency response.[13]
St. Clare Memorial Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital in Oconto Falls, Wisconsin.[14] The hospital was formerly known as Community Memorial Hospital, and changed its name when it joined HSHS in 2014.[15]
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