Chief Healthcare Executive December 11, 2024
The Chippewa Valley Health Cooperative plans to buy and reopen the St. Joseph’s Hospital, while the group pursues plans to build a new hospital.
A nonprofit group in Wisconsin is aiming to build a new hospital after the closure of a hospital earlier this year.
But as the Chippewa Valley Health Cooperative pursues its long-range plans, the organization is hoping to reopen the hospital that shut its doors in the spring.
The cooperative says it has signed a letter of intent with the Hospital Sisters Health System to buy St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chippewa Falls. Citing financial challenges, HSHS closed St. Joseph’s Hospital and Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire in the spring.
The cooperative says it needs to evaluate...