About Us
 St. Joseph's Hospital, located in the center of Washington County at Highways 45 and PV, is a 70-bed, nonprofit, acute care community hospital and is a member of Froedtert & Community Health, a regional hospital system that includes Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee; Community Memorial Hospital, Menomonee Falls; and West Bend Clinic.
In this section, we'd like to share a little more about St. Joseph's Hospital with you. Our dedicated staff is proud to serve residents of West Bend and the greater Washington County area with high quality, personal and trusted care.
Who We Are
Serving residents of West Bend and Washington County, St. Joseph's Hospital offers a 24-hour Emergency Care Center including a state designated Level III Trauma Center. The hospital offers a New Life Center birthing center, Breast Care Program, cardiopulmonary rehab, general surgery, spine surgery, outpatient surgery, diagnostic services including a 64-slice CT, residential hospice care, sleep center, and cancer care including medical and radiation oncology.
West Bend is located in the center of Washington County, Wisconsin, at the junction of U.S. Highway 45 and State Highway 33. A growing, family-friendly community of 30,220, West Bend is less than an hour’s drive northwest of Milwaukee and a short distance from the scenic Kettle Moraine area to the north. St. Joseph's Hospital has served the Washington County community since 1930. In 2005, the hospital opened a new replacement facility at Highway 45 and Pleasant Valley Road. St. Joseph's Hospital had 4,200 acute admissions and 707 births in fiscal 2007. The hospital’s large, country campus also includes a prairie and walking trails, a medical building, and an eight-bed freestanding residential hospice facility, the Kathy Hospice, the first of its kind in the county. In 2008, St. Joseph's Hospital completed an affiliation with Froedtert & Community Health.
Hospital Overview
For more than 75 years, St. Joseph’s Hospital has provided personalized, trusted care in a compassionate and caring environment with a goal of serving residents of West Bend and Washington County communities, enriching the quality of life available here.
St. Joseph's is a member of Froedtert & Community Health, a regional hospital system that includes Froedtert Hospital, Community Memorial Hospital and the West Bend Clinic. Through our partnerships with these organizations, we are able to not only expand our services but also enhance coordination of care both locally and for patients who may need to travel for specialty care.
St. Joseph’s Hospital’s services include:
Specialty services include:
- Radiology, featuring a 64-slice CT scanner
- Offering minimally invasive procedures, with complete digital diagnostic equipment
- Cancer care, featuring medical and radiation oncology services
- Pulmonary/lung care
- Heart care
- Cardiac rehab
- Kathy Hospice
- Washington County's only residential hospice
In 2005, as a direct response to patient demand and to further improve the quality of health care available in Washington County, St. Joseph’s opened a new 180,000 square-foot hospital building on a 143-acre site, located at 3200 Pleasant Valley Road in the Town of Polk.
The new hospital’s design focuses on implementing a high level of quality and patient safety. More than two dozen patient safety experts had input in the planning, along with nurses and other staff members, and helped translate quality and patient safety principles into the design of patient rooms and other features. The process and design have received national recognition.
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Mission, Vision and Values
Mission
To provide personalized, trusted care for our patients and their families
Vision
To be the preferred, community-governed hospital where: Patients desire to receive their care, because of their trust in the skills of our staff, our excellent facilities and technology, and the scope of our programs. Physicians desire to practice, because of our commitment to quality patient care. People want to work, because of our mission and supportive environment.
To expand the range of services which people in the region will be able to access locally, through:
- Continued strong commitment to the community.
- Enhancement of specialized services and programs.
- Support of current and new physician relationships.
- New facilities.
Values
We are a hospital that values:
- Community
- Dignity
- Compassion
- Service
Community
- We value our community heritage.
- We link our services to other community organizations for the benefit of our patients.
- We participate in community service.
- We are community governed.
- We pursue state-of-the-art facility programs and technologies.
Dignity
- We treat everyone as an individual.
- We respect the diversity of our patients and their needs.
- We understand our patients' anxieties, fears, and vulnerabilities.
- We work to empower our patients through informed communication.
Compassion
- We relate to the whole of our patients' needs: physical, emotional, social, and spiritual.
- We recognize the needs of families as part of our patient care philosophy.
- We answer your questions.
- We listen.
Service
- We know it's the little things that matter.
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