Health Care

As a regional center, Eau Claire offers the best medical care in West Central Wisconsin. Those seeking professional help can choose from a wide variety of hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, chiropractors, alternative medicine practitioners, massage therapists, dentists, and other health care professionals. The four major medical providers located within Eau Claire, three of which account for over 1000 employees each, provide the area with state-of-the-art, quality health care.

Luther Midelfort Hospital, in partnership with Mayo Clinic, offers a full range of quality medical services, including cardiac and orthopedic surgery, cancer and trauma care programs. A network of providers in west-central Wisconsin provides access to experts close to home. Sacred Heart Hospital contains such specialty centers as Center for Cancer Research and Prevention, Specialized Neuroscience Center, Renal Dialysis Center and with the recent 2004 renovation, the Advanced Center for Surgery. Marshfield Clinic has more than 40 locations in 31 of Wisconsin's northern, western and central locations and is well known in Eau Claire as the Regional Cancer Center. OakLeaf Medical Network is an institute run by 175 independent physicians whom provide personalized care throughout 12 northwestern Wisconsin counties.