this article appears to have a close connection with its subject . it may require cleanup to comply with wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view . please discuss further on the talk page . april 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message aurora health care finding better ways type not for profit corporation industry health care genre health care system founded 1984 headquarters milwaukee wisconsin united states area served eastern wisconsin northeast illinois key people nick turkal md president & ceo revenue 4 900 000 000 1 number of employees 32 000 2 website www.aurora.org aurora health care is a not for profit health care system headquartered in milwaukee and serving eastern wisconsin . the system has 15 hospitals more than 150 clinics and 70 pharmacies . with 32 000 employees including 1 800 employed physicians aurora is wisconsin s largest home care organization . 2 since its formation in 1984 aurora has expanded through partnerships with independent community hospitals and affiliations with physician organizations as well as organic growth by building new hospitals and medical centers . contents 1 history 1.1 formation 1984 1987 1.2 expansion through partnerships 1988 1997 1.3 expansion through construction 1998 present 2 recent activity 2.1 summit hospital 2.2 advanced healthcare merger 3 divisions and subsidiaries 3.1 acl laboratories 3.2 aurora at home 3.3 aurora family service 3.4 aurora research institute 3.5 journal of patient centered research and reviews 3.6 sports medicine institute 4 hospitals 5 see also 6 references history edit formation 1984 1987 edit in 1984 st. luke s medical center located on milwaukee s south side and good samaritan medical center located on milwaukee s near north side formed an affiliation called st. luke s samaritan health care . this partnership was the first in the milwaukee area of two formerly independent hospitals . three years later when mount sinai medical center merged with good samaritan medical center in 1987 the partnership changed its name to aurora health care . 3 the goal of the partnership of the three hospitals was to reduce costs maintain a high level of care and compete with the other hospitals in the milwaukee metropolitan area . 3 expansion through partnerships 1988 1997 edit after forming a partnership with aurora the visiting nurse association vna of milwaukee joined aurora in 1988 . the vna founded in 1907 is wisconsin s largest provider of hospice care for children and adults . 3 aurora sheboygan medical center between 1992 and 1995 the health care system added five more hospitals 3 sheboygan memorial medical center 1992 milwaukee psychiatric hospital 1993 hartford memorial hospital 1993 two rivers community hospital 1993 west allis memorial hospital 1995 two more hospitals were brought into the aurora system in 1995 the 78 year old lakeland medical center in elkhorn owned by walworth county and trinity memorial hospital in cudahy founded in 1958 and owned by catholic health corp. aurora acquired lakeland medical center for about 16 million . in the deal aurora assumed the hospital s bond obligations and debt and agreed to contribute to a fund to cover the uninsured . 4 in february 1996 memorial hospital of burlington was the final hospital to join aurora health care . 3 in september 2001 aurora baycare opened as a joint effort of aurora health care and baycare clinic . today aurora baycare medical center is a 167 bed full service tertiary care hospital serving the green bay area and communities throughout northeastern wisconsin and michigan s upper peninsula . 5 expansion through construction 1998 present edit aurora medical center in two rivers . in 1998 aurora built its first hospital on the west side of kenosha which opened in february 1999 . that same year aurora replaced two rivers community hospital with a new facility which opened in june 2000 . 3 constrained by space at the 17 acre 6.9 ha st. luke s medical center campus aurora expanded upward by building a 12 story heart tower on top of the existing parking structure . the expansion has 270 beds and opened in 2004 . 6 during the spring of 2002 the 5 story aurora women s pavilion was opened at west allis memorial hospital . 3 on october 27 2003 the health care system opened a new 84 bed hospital in oshkosh which employs over 400 people and competes with the 157 bed mercy medical center . 7 8 recent activity edit in march 2004 aurora health care announced a new quickcare service the first of its kind in the milwaukee area . the kiosks known as aurora quickcare are staffed by providers who handle basic common medical issues for a flat rate . 9 aurora has opened 19 of these facilities including five in walmart supercenters . 10 after leading the health care system since its creation 22 years earlier g. edwin howe retired as president and chief executive officer . 11 nick turkal a family practice physician and president of aurora s metro milwaukee region was chosen as howe s replacement . turkal has been employed by aurora health care since 1987 . 12 summit hospital edit in march 2001 aurora announced plans to build a new hospital in the pabst farms development that was in the jurisdiction of the city of oconomowoc . the oconomowoc common council rezoned the property in june 2001 preventing the development . aurora sued oconomowoc because it believed that the rezoning was done illegally . 13 aurora revealed plans in 2004 to construct a hospital in the pabst farms development located in the town of summit a few hundred feet around 100 meters south of the proposed oconomowoc site . it was to be aurora s first hospital in waukesha county . in 2007 the summit town board approved the new aurora hospital which was planned to have a capacity of 110 beds 14 and to have been completed in march 2010 . 15 the new summit home for aurora wilkinson medical clinic was to open october 26 2009 and replace the current aurora wilkinson medical clinic the wilkinson women s center and the aurora vision center all currently in oconomowoc . the vince lombardi cancer clinic was also to move from its oconomowoc location to the summit campus and a new aurora pharmacy was to open at the summit facility . clarification needed citation needed the new aurora medical center campus in the town of summit is at the southeast corner of interstate 94 and highway 67 . the new aurora wilkinson medical clinic was to be on the west side of the campus and the vince lombardi cancer clinic is on the south side . clarification needed citation needed advanced healthcare merger edit on july 31 2007 advanced healthcare an independent practice in southeastern wisconsin and aurora health care announced that they would join under a broad affiliation agreement . 16 17 according to the agreement the leadership of advanced healthcare would remain intact . in concert with the purchase announcement aurora and advanced healthcare constructed a new hospital in grafton which opened in late 2010 . health care industry experts estimated the total cost of purchasing advanced healthcare and constructing the grafton hospital at 250 million . 16 divisions and subsidiaries edit acl laboratories edit acl laboratories is a joint venture between aurora health care and chicago s largest integrated health care system advocate health care . it was created in 1997 by a merger of several independent laboratories in wisconsin and the greater chicago area . acl performs a range of lab tests from routine blood tests to toxicology and drug tests . 18 aurora at home edit the visiting nurse association of milwaukee joined aurora in 1988 and as of 2010 employs 886 caregivers that provided 273 092 visits to over 15 000 patients averaging well over 2 200 visits per day while traveling over 3 000 000 miles . 19 in 2015 the aurora visiting nurse association began doing business as aurora at home . aurora family service edit in 1995 family service of milwaukee joined aurora to become aurora family service . 20 in 2010 aurora family service served nearly 13 000 families with approximately 1 500 families receiving services on any given day . 21 aurora research institute edit formed in 2010 aurora research institute is a limited liability company of aurora health care headquartered on the campus of aurora sinai medical center milwaukee that provides infrastructure to translate new discoveries into treatment . 22 aurora is currently participating in more than 400 clinical trials . 23 journal of patient centered research and reviews edit launched in 2014 and published quarterly aurora s journal of patient centered research and reviews is a peer reviewed open access multispecialty medical journal devoted to scholarly reports on human health and well being . jpcrr content is available freely online . 24 sports medicine institute edit since 1984 the aurora sports medicine institute has grown to its current size of 14 locations across southeastern wisconsin . the institute runs programs many such as free injury evaluations performance running performance golf among others including arrangements with the milwaukee admirals as well as marquette university . 25 hospitals edit aurora baycare medical center in green bay aurora baycare medical center green bay aurora lakeland medical center elkhorn aurora medical center in grafton aurora medical center in kenosha aurora medical center in manitowoc county two rivers aurora medical center in oshkosh aurora medical center in summit aurora medical center in washington county hartford aurora memorial hospital of burlington burlington aurora psychiatric hospital wauwatosa aurora st. luke s medical center milwaukee aurora st. luke s south shore cudahy aurora sheboygan memorial medical center sheboygan aurora sinai medical center milwaukee aurora west allis medical center west allis see also edit hospital network references edit 2015 annual financial information and operating 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