Aspirus Heart & Lung Surgery

Aspirus Heart & Lung Surgery

The days of routine two-week hospital stays following heart are long gone. The surgeons at Aspirus Heart &, Lung Surgery employ the broadest array of technologies and techniques in the region, allowing patients to choose the treatment most likely to get them back on their feet in a hurry.

Aspirus Heart &, Vascular ,was the first program in the region to perform and embrace beating-heart bypass surgery and also are leaders in:

• Valve surgery - including TAVR and mitral valve repair
• Surgical treatment of Atrial fibrillation
• Coronary artery bypass: 95% beating heart procedures
• Minimally invasive techniques
• Aortic Surgery
• Lung resection for tumors
• Surgical treatment for lung infections

Aspirus Wausau Hospital

Aspirus Wausau Hospital is a private/not-for-profit facility. We are a Level II Trauma Center licensed for 325 beds, operating at 230. We average 12,714 inpatient admissions with 78,119 outpatients and 30,574 emergency room visits per year. Our departments include an 18-bed Medical/Surgical ICU, 8-bed cardiac ICU, 8-bed Clinical Decision Unit, 18-bed ER, 1,308 annual deliveries in our OB unit, 12-room NICU, 5 cath labs, performing 435 open heart surgeries per year in our Aspirus Heart &, Vascular Institute.

Other units/departments include, Aspirus Regional Cancer Center, Aspirus Spine &, Neurosciences Institute, Day Surgery, GI Center, Ortho/Neuro, Medical/Pediatrics, RT, and Rehab.

About Aspirus Health

Aspirus Health serves communities throughout northeastern Minnesota, northern and central Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

• We operate 18 hospitals and 130 outpatient locations, and provide home health services, hospice care, and air-medical transport.
• We employ nearly 14,000 team members, including 1,300 employed physicians and advanced practice clinicians.
• We are committed to being economically, socially, and environmentally responsible.
• We are a non-profit health system based in Wausau, Wisconsin.
• We are dedicated to delivering high-quality care to rural communities.