Rogers is a comprehensive psychiatric hospital, nationally recognized for specialty residential treatment programs for eating disorders, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders for children, teens and adults.
Rogers is a comprehensive psychiatric hospital nationally recognized for specialty mental health treatment.
For more than 100 years, Rogers Memorial Hospital has anchored itself in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, evolving with the times, growing with the needs of the community. Known as the Oconomowoc Health Resort when it opened in 1907, Dr. Arthur Rogers was committed to increasing the accessibility of mental health care and providing innovative mental health care treatment options to the area.
From the very beginning, Dr. Rogers served as leader in the mental health care field, providing innovative therapies, such as the Baruch Hydrotherapeutic Plant for individualized bathing in spring water. The treatment of mental illness has come a long way since then, but the core of our existence remains true: mental illness is real, and there is treatment.
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r. Rogers understood early on that funding for effective treatment of mental health care can be difficult for patients and families. This is evidenced by his decision to convert the hospital to a nonprofit charitable institution in honor of his late wife, Theresa in 1930, thus providing cost effective treatment to all walks of life.
Looking at early growth of the hospital and its services we can see the demand for mental health services from the very beginning. Shortly after the hospital’s opening, the building burned down. However, instead of simply re-building the same structure, Dr. Rogers sold stock to finance reconstruction and in the process added several outbuildings to house therapeutic services.
In 1958,
a wing designated toward the treatment of higher acuity patients was added to the main building. The next phase of growth took place in 1993 when Dr. Moulthrop came to Rogers.
Today, Dr. Rogers would be proud to know that his creation is Wisconsin’s only free-standing, unaffiliated not-for-profit psychiatric hospital, steadfast in its commitment to provide quality treatment to as many people as possible. His vision continues to thrive under the careful watch of David L. Moulthrop, PhD, President and CEO of Rogers Behavioral Health System. It is by looking back in history that we can truly understand how incredible the Rogers story is, and it is because of the solid platform in which we were created that we are so successful.
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Since 1907, Rogers has been building its reputation as a nationally respected and locally appreciated mental health provider.
