Froedtert & the Medical College receives pulmonary hypertension care center accreditation

First in Wisconsin, one of 26 centers nationwide

Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Pulmonology has been accredited as a Pulmonary Hypertension Care Center (PHCC) by the Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA). It is among nine newly accredited PHCCs across the nation, raising the total to 26 centers in the U.S. and making Froedtert & the Medical College Pulmonology Department the first in the state of Wisconsin.

Pulmonary hypertension is a rare, debilitating disease of the lungs that affects the functioning of the heart and can lead to heart failure. It is a relatively underdiagnosed disease, and average survival is less than three years without proper treatment. The accreditation indicates that a program at Froedtert & the Medical College has the capacity to appropriately diagnose and comprehensively manage patients with pulmonary hypertension.

The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin regional health care network is made up of Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee; Community Memorial Hospital, Menomonee Falls; St. Joseph’s Hospital, West Bend; a medical group; and more than 30 primary and specialty care health centers and clinics. Joining the capabilities of an academic medical center affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin, Froedtert & the Medical College deliver highly coordinated, cost-effective health care to residents of southeastern Wisconsin and beyond. The network’s three hospitals have 772 staffed beds, nearly 40,000 annual admissions and more than 900,000 annual outpatient visits. For more information, visit froedtert.com.