About Black River Memorial Hospital
Mission: Black River Memorial Hospital is dedicated to exceptional care.
As more families are drawn to West Central Wisconsin, either relocating for employment opportunities, transfers, or simply in search of a quality lifestyle, accredited health-care facilities are an important factor in choosing a new hometown.
Black River Memorial Hospital is an accredited primary health-care facility located in West Central Wisconsin, in the city of Black River Falls. It is an independent, non-profit organization that is locally controlled. Its service area encompasses all of Jackson County with a population of 19,000. Area residents are fortunate to enjoy a small-town lifestyle with ready access to a full range of quality health services. Black River Memorial Hospital provides a level of care people might expect to find in a big city, but with the compassionate care associated with a small town.
The area is known for its all-season recreational activities, with beautiful lakes, rivers, parks, and forests. Its school systems are fine representatives of Wisconsin's outstanding public education tradition. The city of Black River Falls is just an hour from La Crosse, Eau Claire, and Marshfield; and two hours from Minneapolis and Madison.
Black River Memorial Hospital was built in 1968. The 60,000 square foot hospital at that time was licensed for 76 beds, and has since become a critical access hospital with 25 beds. The hospital is presently undergoing an extensive expansion and remodeling project, adding 69,000 square feet of new space and remodeling 44,000 square feet of the existing facility.
To continue to meet the restorative, preventative, and supportive health-care needs of its patients, Black River Memorial Hospital offers a wide range of quality services including:
- Inpatient
- Outpatient
- Emergency
- Surgical
- Obstetrics
- Respiratory Care
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Clinical Laboratory
- Rehabilitation
- Patient and Family Services
- Outreach Services
- Homecare
- Respiratory Durable Medical Equipment
- Hospice
- Business Health
- Dialysis
Black River Memorial Hospital's professional-caring medical staff includes family medicine physicians, an internal medicine physician, emergency physicians, a general surgeon, a psychiatrist, a podiatrist, family medicine residents, family nurse practitioners, a physician’s assistant, and nurse anesthetists. In addition, consulting medical services include consultants in cardiology, dental, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, pathology, podiatry, psychiatry, radiology, urology, and surgery.
The hospital is strongly committed to the educational aspects of medicine and participates in the preceptorship program through the University of Wisconsin Medical School. This program gives fourth-year medical students the opportunity to train in a rural setting.
There are currently 250 employees at Black River Memorial Hospital with contracted employees in Anesthesia, Speech Language, Pathology, and Nutrition.
Black River Memorial Hospital is licensed by the Wisconsin Division of Health and accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
It is certified by or a member of the following:
- Wisconsin Hospital Association
- Western Hospital District
- Provider Hospital Health Insurance Program (Medicare)
- Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services
- Shared Health Services Corporation
- Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative
Additional information may be obtained by contacting Black River Memorial Hospital.
Phone: 715-284-5361
E-mail: obrienm@brmh.net
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