- The Chippewa Valley simply doesn’t have enough emergency room capacity or hospital beds to serve the region. While the other hospitals in our community have adjusted to handle more patients, they are at capacity and don’t have all of the local resources to serve the need.
- Sacred Heart and St. Joseph’s had more than 22,000 Emergency Room Visits
- Sacred Heart and St. Joseph’s averaged 125 hospitalized patients daily
- Sacred Heart was planning for approximately 900 births in 2024
- Many community patients throughout the greater Chippewa Valley region now have to travel great distances to get the healthcare services they need, as the other health care systems can’t accommodate the increase in patients closing HSHS hospitals and clinics created.
- We think it’s very important that the great community gets an independent community hospital that is owned and governed by the people of the Chippewa Valley, so that decisions about services and capacity are made here, not by management teams headquartered in other parts of the state or country. The Cooperative’s membership will choose the the board of directors who must be from the 18-county membership region of the great Chippewa Valley.
- The Cooperative is committed to making high-quality healthcare both accessible and affordable for the people of the Chippewa Valley region.