Marshfield Medical Center - Neillsville partnered with Wold to plan and design their replacement health, care and wellness campus. This process facilitated a site selection analysis to determine the community's best location to gather together to receive care, recover and learn and integrate healthy habits into their lives. The campus will include a full-service critical access hospital, a comprehensive specialty care clinic, primary care outpatient center, optometry clinic, retail pharmacy, rehabilitation and therapy clinic and a YMCA wellness center with 24-hour public access. This replacement facility will provide a modern healthcare campus that will enhance the patient and family experience, the workplace environment for the staff and reorganize operations around ambulatory and outpatient care.
On this campus, Marshfield Medical Center's strategic partnerships include the Marshfield Clinic Health System, Art of Optometry and Sniteman Pharmacy. Wold worked with these partners to create a singular facility that supports the community's local care needs. The planning team integrated care team members and their past patients into the process, invited community stakeholders and MMC staff to work on the aesthetics committee and conducted community open houses to facilitate an ongoing conversation. These conversations surrounded how to appropriately integrate this campus into the local community's fabric and the surrounding region.
By understanding this rural community's unique needs through extensive planning, the 90,000 square-foot campus will transform the health and wellness landscape by consolidating inpatient, outpatient and retail care services for the community on one campus set into the local topography will foster a mindset of healthy living. The construction process is set to be completed in late 2020, and the campus will begin to see patients and their families and provide public access to the wellness center in the first quarter of 2021. The new experience for the patients, their families, the staff and local community members will help support Marshfield Clinic Health System's mission "To enrich lives ... through accessible, affordable compassionate health care."