Froedtert to open clinic on east side
Primary care facility planned for early 2025
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin plans to open a new primary care clinic on Milwaukee’s east side early next year, the health system announced.
Plans for the east-side clinic were filed with the city last year, but Monday was the first time Froedtert formally announced the project, called Lafayette Clinic, and its timeline for opening.
The clinic, which Froedtert says requires approval from the city of Milwaukee, would be located at 2071 N. Summit Ave., and is meant to expand access to primary care and obstetrical and gynecological care for people on the east side, according to a press release issued Monday.
The 11,000-square-foot facility would include 13 exam rooms and an on-site laboratory, according to the release. The clinic would employ 10-15 people and see an estimated 100 patients per day, according to plans submitted to the city last year. The clinic hours would be from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The project was granted a specialuse permit from the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals in December, to allow the property to be used as a health clinic. Most recently, the property was home to the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Center for AIDS Intervention Research and a CrossFit gym.
The clinic is part of an expanding network of primary care clinics operated by Froedtert. Another clinic designed to serve residents of Milwaukee’s east side and North Shore is scheduled to open in Shorewood on June 10, according to Froedtert’s website.
Last summer, Froedtert opened a new primary care office on Milwaukee’s south side, Forest Home Health Center, that also houses a residency program for training family medicine doctors. That clinic, at 1316 W. Forest Home Ave., is meant to improve access to preventive care for the largely Hispanic community in the area and, with the residency program, to train more family medicine physicians in the Froedtert & MCW network, a June news release from Froedtert said.
Froedtert has two other primary care offices within Milwaukee’s city limits: the McKinley Health Center, at 1271 N. Sixth St., in downtown Milwaukee, and the Good Hope Health Center, at 7208 N. 76th St., on the city’s northwest side. Most of its other primary care offices, well over a dozen, are located in Milwaukee’s suburbs and the outlying metro area.
In January, Froedtert finalized an agreement to combine with ThedaCare, a smaller, Wisconsin health system with hospitals in Appleton, Neenah and rural Wisconsin. The consolidation created a new, regional health system with hospitals and clinics in central and eastern Wisconsin and combined revenue of well over $4 billion. As part of the consolidation, Froedtert changed its legal name to Froedtert ThedaCare Health, Inc. and became the parent of ThedaCare. The separate brand names, Froedtert and ThedaCare, have remained under the new, regional health system.
Another clinic designed to serve residents of Milwaukee’s east side and North Shore is scheduled to open in Shorewood on June 10, according to Froedtert’s website.