Ascension Wisconsin announced plans to close a small hospital in Waukesha and consolidate and close birthing services, mental health units and cardiac catheterization labs across southeast Wisconsin. The announcement comes as other hospital systems across the state have made similar cutbacks and closures. The Saint Louis-based hospital system will close its "micro-hospital," which opened in Waukesha at the start of 2021. Ascension Wisconsin announced plans to centralize all of its inpatient behavioral healthcare services for the southeast portion of the state at St. Francis Hospital in Milwaukee, meaning it will eventually close its inpatient behavioral health units at All Saints Hospital in Racine and at Columbia St. Mary's Hospital-Ozaukee.
