Progress 2009 Section D
Aspirus grows in the Copper Country
Kurt Hauglie/Daily Mining Gazette
Receptionist Jennifer Klinger, left, and Nurse Practitioner Cindy Blake wait for the next customer at the Aspirus Fast Care clinic in the Houghton Shopko store. Nurses at the clinic will treat people for minor ailments, such as colds, flu and ear aches.
WAUSAU, Wis. — Starting as two small rural hospitals in Wisconsin in the 1880s, the Aspirus System now has four hospitals and clinics in more than 30 communities in Michigan and Wisconsin. Greg Aune, Aspirus media communication specialist in Wausau, Wis., said the two hospitals originally served timber industry workers. After some changes in ownership and names, the two hospitals combined and became Wausau Hospital north and south in 1974. The system’s current main facility, Aspirus Wausau Hospital, opened in 1979. Aune said the Aspirus System now has hospitals in Antigo, Medford and Wausau, Wis., as well as Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital and a partnership with Aspirus Keweenaw Hospital. “We have more than 4,300 employees,” he said. “Wausau has 350 physicians and 35 specialists.” Aune said there are 150 doctors in the system’s clinics, also.
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