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Marshfield Has Top-Notch Health-Care Facilities
Marshfield is a small town that boasts a big reputation for health care. Nestled in the heart of Wisconsin, this city offers two full-service medical facilities and is a quality alternative to traveling to the big cities.
Ministry Health Care Keeps Patients First
Ministry St. Joseph’s Hospital, a 500-plus-bed state-of-the-art facility, is known for its superior medical care and cutting-edge technology, and is designated as one of three children’s hospitals in Wisconsin.
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Marshfield Schools Bring Small-Town Charm to the Classroom
Family-friendly Marshfield is a great place to raise children, in part due to its excellent schools – including public, private and higher education.
Public and Private Education
In keeping with the city's small-town feel are the host of schools within the Marshfield School District and Columbis Catholic Schools.
The five elementary schools, one middle school and one high school that compose MSD serve more than 4,000 students. Its 282 teachers and 164 support personnel give students... Read More »
Marshfield Offers Historic Neighborhoods and Retirement Homes
What's small and quiet, but booming with growth and opportunities? If you guessed Marshfield, you're right! Recently ranked No. 5 on Forbes 2010 list of the Best Small Cities to Raise a Family, Marshfield gives residents a long list of bragging rights for calling this place home. Quality of life measures such as commute times, educational attainment and cost of living were part of Forbes' criteria for choosing cities with populations under 100,000, making Marshfield a superb choice... Read More »
St. Joseph's Hospital Has Spirited Transportation Service
Look, up in the sky … and also on the roads.
In the winter of 1993, the Ministry Health Care network launched a new program called Spirit Medical Transportation Services and based its operation at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield. Spirit, a ground and air medical transport service, has since added ground bases in the communities of Rhinelander, Weston and Woodruff.
Spirit’s mission is to provide a helicopter or ground ambulances to transport adult, pediatric, neonatal and high-risk... Read More »
Retirees Find Tranquil Living at Veterans Parkway Estates
Veteran’s Parkway Estates is the first development in Marshfield to cater to adults nearing retirement or already there. Developer Larry Shortess got the idea after spending several winters in Florida and looking around at other such communities in Wisconsin.
“If it works in Wausau, why won’t it work here?” he says. At capacity, Veteran’s Parkway Estates will have 34 condos, two units to a building. They come in three sizes: 1,900, 1,600 and 1,400 square feet,... Read More »
Marshfield Businesses Get Creative in Going Green
Marshfield is getting a needed facelift of the environmental variety.
City officials and local professionals are linking arms with the city’s clean-energy advocates to make the community a more eco-friendly place to live, while putting a portion of residents’ energy costs back into their pockets.
For example, Sustainable Marshfield is a committee composed entirely of private citizens that was established by the city council in early 2007 and focuses on three avenues of improving the environment... Read More »
