[4][5][6] Additional awards include receiving the Healthgrades Distinguished Hospital Award-Clinical Excellence recognition eight years in a row from 2008 to 2015.

[8] Gundersen Lutheran is also a designated academic campus for the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

[6][12] In 2011, the health system launched construction on the Legacy Building, a 430,000 square foot trauma and urgent care center at a cost of nearly $200 million.

[15] Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center is the designated Western Academic Campus for the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

[17][18][19] Lessons learned from the project have been developed into a comprehensive curriculum that has become known as Gundersen Health System's Respecting Choices Organization & Community Advance Care Planning Course.

[20] In 2014, it was announced the European Union was funding an $8.5 million study, which will take place over five years using Gundersen Health's "Respecting Choices" program as its model.

During the inaugural National Share the Experience Summit on September 7, 2016, Respecting Choices leaders announced the program's transition from Gundersen Health System to the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) under a long-term agreement.

[22] Patients, partners, staffers and the public in general will continue to receive core Respecting Choices services under the partnership, as well as realizing additional benefits from other opportunities, C-TAC and Gundersen officials said.

[26][27] Gundersen Health System has locations in 19 counties throughout western Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota.