A fundraising foundation for the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is
contemplating whether to buy a former hospital in the city that has been
closed for nearly a year. The foundation has already purchased two
smaller parcels located behind the former Sacred Heart Hospital’s
24-acre main campus.Sacred Heart Hospital still stands tall
overlooking Eau Claire’s busy Clairemont Avenue. But since March 2024,
the parking lot has been vacant and the windows dark. The hospital’s closure
was part of a “complete exit from the Western Wisconsin Region” by
Hospital Sisters Health System, or HSHS, that also meant the end of the
St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chippewa Falls...
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