History
Froedtert, founded as Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital opened on September 29, 1980, and was named after Kurtis Froedtert, the Milwaukee businessman who donated $11 million to found the hospital after his death in 1951.
The year of Froedtert's opening, it functioned as a "half-service" hospital, sharing operations with nearby Milwaukee County Hospital, renamed the John L. Doyne Hospital. In 1995, Froedtert bought the assets of Milwaukee County Hospital, and finally functioned as a full-service hospital.
In 2001, Froedtert Hospital and Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin merged and formed Froedtert and Community Health.
In July 2008, Froedtert and Community Health bought SynergyHealth in West Bend, Wisconsin, which included St. Joseph's Hospital West Bend, and the West Bend Clinic.
In 2010, Froedtert and Community Health changed its name to Froedtert Health. The name change was to create a more unified organization with the health care system's recent acquisitions.
Froedtert is partnered with other hospital systems in Wisconsin to provide the same high-level care in those areas as it does in the Milwaukee metropolitan area, and is closely affiliated with Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, as both hospitals are on the same medical campus. Other hospital systems Froedtert is partnered with are; ThedaCare in the Fox Valley, the United Hospital System in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Agnesian Health Care in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
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