A Central Wisconsin Emergency Medicine Physician has achieved Fellow status from the Academy of Emergency Medical Services (AEMS).
Michael Clark, M.D., Emergency Medicine Physician at Ascension St. Clare’s Hospital, Weston, Ascension St. Michael’s Hospital, Stevens Point and Ascension Good Samaritan Hospital, Merrill is among the class of 53 members who recently received the honor from the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP).
Clark is the first physician from an Ascension Wisconsin facility to earn fellow status from AEMS and is joined by 14 other Emergency Medicine Physicians in Wisconsin as fellows. Less than 300 physicians across the country have been awarded the designation.
NAEMSP® is an organization of physicians and other professionals partnering to provide leadership and foster excellence in EMS.
Ascension Wisconsin (ascension.org/wisconsin) operates 24 hospital campuses, more than 100 related healthcare facilities and employs more than 1,300 primary and specialty care clinicians from Racine to Eagle River. Serving Wisconsin for 171 years, Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. As such, Ascension Wisconsin provided more than $222 million in community benefit, including care of persons living in poverty in Fiscal Year 2018. Ascension is the largest non-profit health system in the U.S. and the world’s largest Catholic health system, operating 2,600 sites of care – including 151 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities – in 21 states and the District of Columbia