Five details:
1. On Sept. 3, West Bend Surgery Center will open at a new location on the St. Joseph’s Hospital campus in Polk, Wis.
2. The existing center treated its final patient on Aug. 16.
3. The new 17,000-square-foot West Bend Surgery Center is freestanding but physically attached to St. Joseph’s Health Center.
4. It features three operating rooms, as well as two procedure suites for ENT, gastrointestinal, general, gynecologic, orthopedic, plastic and podiatry procedures.
5. Milwaukee-based Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin invested $53 million in the West Bend Surgery Center and the West Bend Health Center development projects.
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