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Description

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Welcome to Burnett Medical Center
The mission of Burnett Medical Center is to provide compassionate comprehensive community healthcare that exceeds our customers expectations Our mission as well as our vision and values serves as a guideline for daily decision making and represents the principles and practices that we constantly apply The comfort and care of our patients is a major focus of ours We want to be your healthcare provider of quotchoicequotproviding expert and cost effective care in a quothometownquot atmosphere

An objective of ours is to provide education that will increase health awareness One of our main goals is to continually put the quotcarequot in healthcare More healthcare information is now available on our Web site which also provides patient education resources for you your family and friends to explore

We want you to review the services that we provide and to be assured that we are here to provide expert and compassionate care for our patients 24 hours a day seven days a week We will continue to grow and adapt to exceed your current and future healthcare needs

Mission Statement
The mission of Burnett Medical Center is to provide compassionate comprehensive community healthcare that exceeds our customers expectations Our mission as well as our vision and values serves as a guideline for daily decision making and represents the principles and practices that we constantly apply The comfort and care of our patients is a major focus of ours We want to be your healthcare provider of quotchoicequotproviding expert and cost effective care in a quothometownquot atmosphere

Another objective of ours is to provide education that will increase your health awareness Part of our mission is to continually put the quotcarequot in healthcare More healthcare information is now available from our Web site which also provides patient education resources for you your family and friends to explore

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History

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The first hospital in Grantsburg opened on November 19 1930 one year after the organization was founded The cost 25700 Fortyseven local residents purchased initial shares in the corporation and more shares were sold as time went on Two physicians and one surgeon were on the medical staff

Throughout the 1930s 1940s and 1950s the hospital had its ups and downs In 1953 the loss of practicing physicians in Grantsburg put the hospital on a monthtomonth operational basis with the definite possibility of closing The hospital limped along until another doctor was found to meet area health care needs

In 1957 stockholders resolved to launch Grantsburg Hospital Inc a new notforprofit corporation to secure the benefits of a notforprofit hospital for all area residents Hopes of remodeling the old Community Hospital structure turned toward building a new 31bed facility on St George Avenue Citizens throughout the surrounding area in Wisconsin and Minnesota banded together to raise a full quarter of the total construction cost


New Healthcare Facility
On an early June day in 1961 the new healthcare facility on St George Avenue in Grantsburg opened and the hospital grew In 1970 a 53bed extended care facility was added to meet the growing needs of an aging population In 1985 an expanded emergency room exam rooms ambulance garage and supply area were added as well

For many years in the 1960s 70s and 80s the area was underserved with too few practicing physicians Residents increasingly looked elsewhere for their health care In the years between 1988 and 1993 Burnett General Hospitals economic size dropped In 1990 Burnett General faced a financial loss of 390942