St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center is a 158-bed not-for-profit

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located in

Green Bay, Wisconsin Green Bay is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The county seat of Brown County, it is at the head of Green Bay (known locally as "the bay of Green Bay"), a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It is above sea lev ...

. It is part of the

Hospital Sisters Health System Hospital Sisters Health System, or HSHS, is a non-profit healthcare system headquartered in Springfield, Illinois. HSHS operates a network of 15 hospitals and other healthcare facilities throughout the midwestern U.S. states of Illinois, and Wis ...

History

St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center was created in 1903 by the

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. The original hospital building was located in downtown Green Bay. In 1960, Bishop Stanislaus Vincent Bona of the

Diocese of Green Bay The Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay ( la, Diocesis Sinus Viridis) was established on March 3, 1868, by Pope Pius IX. It covers the city of Green Bay, as well as Brown, Calumet, Door, Florence, Forest, Kewaunee, Langlade, Manitowoc, Mar ...

requested the sisters move their hospital to the west side of Green Bay, which was completed later that year, becoming the first and only hospital on the west side. In 1973, the Misericorde Sisters ended their sponsorship of the hospitals, and the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis assumed sponsorship of the hospital the following year. In 1981, the hospital completed a new, modern building which was the first all private room hospital in northeast Wisconsin. In 2010, the hospital opened a new regional cancer center.

Medical operations

St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center partners with St. Vincent Hospital, which is also owned by Hospital Sisters Health System, and the two hospitals share doctors and staff members. St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center partners with Prevea Health, which is also owned by Hospital Sisters Health System, to provide health clinics throughout northeast Wisconsin. The hospital also partners with the

Medical College of Wisconsin The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is a private medical school, pharmacy school, and graduate school of sciences headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The school was established in 1893 and is the largest research center in eastern Wisconsin ...

's Green Bay campus to provide clinical rotations for medical students.

References

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