The primary adult teaching affiliate for the Medical College of Wisconsin, Froedtert Hospital is a 607-bed academic medical center that delivers advanced medical care.
FROEDTERT ANESTHESIOLOGY
The team at Froedtert Hospital is led by Chair Cynthia Lien, MD; Jens Krombach, MD, Vice Chair of FH Clinical Operations; and a team of Division Directors:
- General Anesthesia
- Division Director: Rachel Budithi, MD
- The largest of the Department’s Divisions at Froedtert Hospital, with many faculty practicing in this Division in addition to being involved in other subspecialties
- Cardiac Division
- Division Director: Chris Plambeck, MD
- Critical Care Medicine
- Division Director: Mike Fierro, MD
- Neuroanesthesia
- Division Director: Suneeta Gollapudy, MD
- Obstetric Anesthesia
- Division Director: Meredith Albrecht, MD, PhD
- Learn more on the Froedtert Birth Center page
- Pain Management
- Division Director: Sarah Endrizzi, MD
- Includes CHIPS (Comprehensive Hospital Inpatient Pain Service)
- Learn more on the Pain Management Clinics page
- Preoperative Evaluation and Testing (PET) Clinic
- Division Director: Kathy Lauer, MD
- Regional Anesthesia & Acute Pain Service (RAAPS)
- Division Director: Krystal Weierstahl, DO
- Transplant Anesthesia
- Division Director: Brent Boettcher, DO
- Trauma Anesthesia
- Division Director: Olga Kaslow, MD, PhD
Quick Facts
- Nationally recognized for exceptional physicians and nurses, research leadership, specialty expertise and state-of-the-art treatments and technology
- Serves as an eastern Wisconsin's only academic medical center and referral center for advanced medical practice care in 37 specialties
- Is a major training facility with more than 1,000 medical, nursing and health technical students in training
- In partnership with the Medical College, is a respected research facility with more than 2,000 research studies, including clinical trials, conducted every year
- Operates the region’s only adult Level I Trauma Center
- State-of-the-art Integrated Procedural Platform (pictured above)
- One of less than 1% of hospitals in the nation to be certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center
- Recognized as a 2022 Birnbaum Quality Leadership Top Performer by Vizient, Inc. Achieving a rank of 10 out of 107 Comprehensive Academic Medical Center Vizient members, we were recognized for demonstrating excellence in delivering high-quality care.
- Recognized by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation as a "Top Performer in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality" for protecting our LGBTQ patients and employees from discrimination, ensuring equal visitation for LGBTQ people and providing staff training in LGBTQ patient-centered care.
- Received the 2022 Greenhealth Partner for Change Award and the Greening the Operating Room Recognition Award from Practice Greenhealth for leadership in environmental sustainability in health care. A focus on more sustainable operations supports healthier patients, staff and communities.
Froedtert Hospital by the Numbers
As of June 30, 2022:
- Beds: 711
- Patient Admissions: 37,149
- Patient Days of Care: 225,594
- Average Length of Stay (Days): 6.02
- Average Daily Census: 618.07
- Emergency Visits: 72,520
- Trauma Center patients evaluated: 4,095
- Patient transfers from other facilities: 22,702
- Outpatient Visits: 948,203
- Births: 3,418
- Cancer Registry Cases: 6,121
- Cardiology Encounters: 70,874
- Surgeries:
- Inpatient: 11,314
- Outpatient: 13,894
- Transplants:
- Heart: 23
- Kidney: 65
- Liver: 14
- Pancreas: 2
- Blood and marrow: 374
- Physicians: 1,356
- Staff: 7,753
Download the Froedtert Hospital fact sheet.