About Us
Few hospitals in our community have the breadth and depth of experience that you will find at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - St. Joseph. Founded in 1879, St. Joseph is a general acute care tertiary, teaching hospital providing acute and subacute care at its primary campus location - 5000 W. Chambers Street, Milwaukee. The hospital and its outpatient centers provide ambulatory care.
Over A Century of Healthcare Excellence
St. Joseph is the second largest private hospital in Milwaukee and serves as a referral and tertiary care center for southeastern and eastern Wisconsin.
Our 538-licensed-bed facility is known throughout southeastern Wisconsin for our:
- Specialized Obstetrics: providing low- through high-risk services, including: Prenatal Assessment Center; high-risk antepartum care; Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome treatment. Follow-up treatments through Pediatric Therapy, Infant Apnea and Stepping Stones programs. Our Women’s Outpatient Center also provides care to at-risk populations.
- Emergency Department: 24/7 services; licensed, certified Level III Trauma Center; providing emergency care to approximately 80,000 people a year.
- Heart Care: a leader in the treatment of heart disease, spanning outpatient diagnostics to diagnostic and interventional cardiology, cardiac surgery and rehabilitation. The Heart Care Center offers cardiac catheterization laboratory, chest pain ED protocols, cardiac and thoracic surgery and more.
- Cancer Care: offers comprehensive care services including
Novalis® shaped beam radiosurgery, surgery, medical oncology, radiation oncology, inpatient services, and support services of dietary, social worker and spiritual care. Includes intense modulated radiation therapy, prostate seed implant, palliative care unit.
- Rehabilitation: Including special “Pediatric Therapy” for our youngest patients; sports medicine; physical, occupational, hand, spinal, shoulder and speech therapies; osteoporosis management and prevention; foot and ankle pain management, dizziness and balance programs and lymphedema treatment.
- Surgical services: comprehensive range of services
- Other services, including neurology, urology and gastroenterology and more.
Our Outpatient Centers
The hospital's associated outpatient centers include:
- Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare -- Wauwatosa
- Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Glendale
- Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare -- Mayfair
Our Commitment
In addition, St. Joseph also sponsors a wide variety of educational programs to offer support and information to the community. Our programs and services are planned to fill the physical, emotional, spiritual and cultural needs of all of our patients from premature infants to the senior population.
We are an active participant local community programs and associations such as Sherman Park Community and Capitol West Neighborhood associations; “Mosaic on Burleigh” Main Street program; SET ministry; Rosalie Manor Community and Family Services, and local elementary through high schools.