2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 114
ENROLLED JOINT RESOLUTION
Relating to: commemorating the 100th anniversary of Marshfield Clinic and declaring Thursday, October 13, 2016, as Marshfield Clinic Day in Wisconsin.
Whereas, in 1916, six physicians—K.W. Doege, M.D.; William Hipke, M.D.; Victor Mason, M.D.; Walter G. Sexton, M.D.; H.H. Milbee, M.D.; and Roy P. Potter, M.D.—who practiced in Marshfield joined in group practice and named the practice after the community; and
Whereas, the founding focus of the Marshfield Clinic was patient care, research, and education, and those founding principles continue to be the core mission of the clinic today; and
Whereas, Marshfield Clinic is the largest private-group medical practice in Wisconsin and one of the largest rural-group practices in the United States, with more than 700 physicians representing over 80 different medical specialties and subspecialties, from cardiology and neurology to oncology, more than 6,000 employees, and over 50 locations in northern, central, and western Wisconsin; and
Whereas, Marshfield Clinic is a not-for-profit organization that has provided access to health care for those in need who do not have the ability to pay; and
Whereas, Marshfield Clinic has committed itself to providing care to patients in rural Wisconsin and beyond; and
Whereas, Marshfield Clinic has nearly 4 million annual patient encounters and 350,000 annual unique patients in the clinic system; and
Whereas, in addition to Marshfield Clinic Health System, Marshfield Clinic has expanded and formed entities in the organization that are beneficial to the community and consistent with its mission of world-class patient care, research, and education including:
• Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, a research organization with six research centers: National Farm Medicine Center, Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health, Center for Human Genetics, Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Clinical Research Center, and Institute for Oral and Systemic Health.
•Laird Center for Medical Research, a medical research and education facility on the campus of Marshfield Clinic, named after former Congressman and U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird.
•Lawton Center for Research and Education, dedicated to Dr. Ben Lawton, a prominent thoracic surgeon at Marshfield Clinic who practiced until his death in the 1980s and served as a president of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
•Marshfield Clinic's Division of Education, which helps provide residency programs for medical school graduates in a variety of medical disciplines.
•Marshfield Clinic Laboratories, a system of laboratories that employs more than 450 people and performs more than 20 million tests annually. In addition to human medicine, it has established separate service lines for forensic toxicology, food safety, and veterinary diagnostics.
•Security Health Plan of Wisconsin, Inc., Marshfield Clinic Health System's health maintenance organization, which began in 1971 as one of the earliest HMOs in the country.
•Marshfield Food Safety, LLC, a food testing laboratory founded by the clinic in 2002, which has grown to be a network of 12 laboratories providing services to ensure safety of food and food production areas using pathogen/microbiological detection, plus analysis of food chemistry including nutrition components, proximates, elemental impurities, pesticide residues, drug residues, allergens, and mycotoxins.
•Marshfield Clinic Information Systems, an information technology company dedicated to delivering and managing cutting-edge products and services for health care providers and a product of Marshfield Clinic's 50-year commitment to the use of information technology to benefit patients and physicians in the pursuit of excellent medical care; and
Whereas, Marshfield Clinic has demonstrated time and time again what it is to be on the leading edge of patient care delivery and medical research, as demonstrated by its early involvement in the use of computerized medical records, creation of a provider-sponsored health plan, and success in the Physician Group Practice Demonstration Project and as noted through international recognition and numerous national awards; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the legislature hereby declares Thursday, October 13, 2016, as Marshfield Clinic Day in Wisconsin.
