Wisconsin hospitals
Wisconsin hospitals: racial-equity scorecards
125 Medicare-certified hospitals serve Wisconsin, represented by the Wisconsin Hospital Association. This page aggregates CMS Hospital Compare measures — overall star rating, mortality / safety / readmission / patient-experience measure-group performance — for each of those facilities.
WHA CheckPoint publishes hospital infection rates, readmission data, and volume figures statewide. Milwaukee's Froedtert and Children's Wisconsin anchor the Medical College of Wisconsin clinical enterprise.
The state's recognized safety-net hospital systems — the facilities that carry a disproportionate share of Medicaid and uninsured admissions — include: Froedtert Hospital (Milwaukee), UW Health University Hospital (Madison), and Advocate Aurora Health (Milwaukee). Each has its own detail page below.
Two editorial notes on scope. First, CMS does not publish a racial-disparity scorecard per-hospital at national scale; what we surface below is the facility's overall CMS rating paired with any race-stratified metric we could find in a primary source (AHRQ Disparities Atlas, a state discharge scorecard, or a published study). Second, we do not rank hospitals as 'worst for Black patients' without a primary-source citation — the legal standard for that claim requires it.
Safety-net systems in Wisconsin
- Froedtert Hospital (Milwaukee)
- UW Health University Hospital (Madison)
- Advocate Aurora Health (Milwaukee)
All 125 hospitals in Wisconsin
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Data sources
- CMS Hospital Compare — Hospital General Information (data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/xubh-q36u).
- Wisconsin Hospital Association — state hospital trade body (https://www.wha.org/).
- Wisconsin Department of Health Services — Division of Quality Assurance — state hospital licensing + oversight (https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/dqa/index.htm).
- State hospital scorecard (https://www.checkpoint.wha.org/).
- AHRQ National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr).
- CDC Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System state releases (cdc.gov/pmss).
- The Leapfrog Group hospital safety grades (leapfroggroup.org).
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