1. Aurora plans to build a facility with a 100,000 square-foot ambulatory care center and a three-story office building on a 64-acre parcel in Pleasant Prairie, Wis. The site allows space for possible future expansion.
2. Kenosha, Wis.-based Froedtert South, Aurora’s primary competitor, also plans on building a facility in Pleasant Prairie.
3. Aurora plans to hire up to 140 full-time employees at its new location, which will offer services including general surgery, orthopedics and urology.
4. Aurora will begin construction this summer and expects to open its new facility in the spring of 2020. The previously planned Kenosha site was scheduled for completion in 2018.
5. Aurora is merging with Advocate Health of Illinois, which has clinics near Pleasant Prairie.
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