[2][3] Froedtert is located on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center grounds, which is a consortium of six health care institutions.

The name change was to create a more unified organization with the health care system's recent acquisitions.

In February 2020, the hospital received widespread public criticism when a federal inspection following the death of a female patient, who suffered chest pain and died after waiting at the emergency room for two hours, revealed that the emergency room staff failed to check the vital signs of patients regularly in six out of twenty inspected cases.

Such cases included not checking the vital signs for more than five hours of a patient who was brought in after taking painkillers and alcohol in a suicide attempt.

Froedtert has been recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program.