Earlier this year, Ascension SE Wisconsin Hospital – Elmbrook Campus celebrated its 50th anniversary of providing compassionate, personalized care. The celebration included a proclamation from Steven V. Ponto, Mayor of the City of Brookfield, Wisconsin, who congratulated and commended associates for the healthcare services they provide to the community and wishing them continued success.
Ascension Elmbrook's beginning goes back to 1910, when the Sisters of Misericordia arrived from Canada and opened the Misericordia Hospital. By the 1950s, as the city and the hospital grew, the sisters bought a 230-acre estate in Brookfield, and after years of planning and building, on Sept. 8, 1969, the sisters opened their new hospital – Elmbrook Memorial – with an original medical staff of 10 physicians.
In 1984, the Misericordia Sisters transferred ownership of their full-service hospital to the Wheaton Franciscan System, which later merged into the Covenant Healthcare System in 1993 and Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare in 2006. In March 2016, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare joined Ascension.
Today, Ascension Elmbrook has a medical staff of 574 physicians and employs 600 associates. It has 166 licensed beds, a 10-bed intensive care unit, a family birth center averaging 500 deliveries a year, a 15-bed newly remodeled emergency department that averages 12,000 visits per year, and 10 operating rooms averaging 6,000 surgeries each year.
Photo: From left, Mary Jo Kohout, Vice President, Nursing, Ascension Elmbrook; Steven Ponto, Mayor of Brookfield; and Mushir Hassan, MD, Vice President, Medical Affairs, Ascension Elmbrook.
