Aurora Health Care is a not-for-profit Wisconsin-area health care provider and a national leader in efforts to improve health care quality. Aurora offers services at sites in more than 90 communities throughout eastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Aurora is Wisconsin's most comprehensive health care provider and the state's largest private employer. Aurora serves more than 1.2 million patients every year via a comprehensive network of facilities, services and providers, including 15 hospitals, 159 clinics, 70 pharmacies and 30,000 amazing Caregivers. As evidenced by more than 400 active clinical trials, Aurora is dedicated to delivering innovations to provide the best possible care today, and to define the best care for tomorrow. Bay Area Medical Center is a 99-bed general acute care hospital located in Northeast Wisconsin serving over 60,000 residents in the counties of Marinette, Wi. and Menominee, MI. It is the market's sole primary/secondary care hospital and also offers outpatient surgery center, outpatient rehabilitation and physician specialty clinics. BAMC offers select, advanced medical services with an emphasis on heart & vascular care, women's services, diagnostic radiology, ambulatory surgery, obstetrics, cancer treatment, and emergency care. BAMC earned full accreditation in 2015 by the Joint Commission on HealthCare Organizations. In 2014, BAMC signed an affiliate agreement with Aurora Health Care and are in the planning stages to construct a new hospital facility in Marinette with a projected opening of late 2017.