Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Froedtert Hospital

Froedtert Hospital, the academic medical center of the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network, has 702 beds and is a leading referral resource for advanced medical care. Froedtert Hospital also operates the region’s only adult Level I Trauma Center. The primary adult teaching affiliate of MCW, Froedtert Hospital is a major training facility for more than 1,000 medical, nursing and health technical students annually. It is also a respected research center, participating in some 2,000 research studies, including clinical trials, every year. Froedtert Hospital is located on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center campus. Campus partners are: Children’s Wisconsin, Curative Care Network, MCW, Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division and Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin.

Froedtert Hospital is named for our benefactor, Kurtis R. Froedtert, whose vision, support and energy led to the opening of a new era in health care in 1980. Download the Froedtert Hospital fact sheet.

Froedtert Hospital by the Numbers (as of June 30, 2021)

• Beds: 702
• Patient Admissions: 35 889
• Patient Days of Care: 209,821
• Average Length of Stay (Days): 5.79
• Average Daily Census: 574.85
• Emergency Visits: 69,268
• Trauma Center patients evaluated: 4,489
• Patient transfers from other facilities: 14,628
• Outpatient Visits: 890,980
• Births: 3,163
• Cancer Registry Cases: 5,348
• Cardiology Encounters: 66,971
• Surgeries:
  • Inpatient: 11,388
  • Outpatient: 13,337
• Transplants: 
  • Heart: 24
  • Kidney: 63
  • Liver: 29
  • Pancreas: 3
  • Blood and marrow: 356
• Physicians: 1,730
• Staff: 7,741