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City's only infertility clinic to close in June

...David Olive said today."We have hundreds of active patients right now, currently going through treatments, and we were booked for new patient visits four months in advance, and booked for in vitro fertilization through May."Olive also noted that the three-month time period puts the clinic in a bind for developing any other local service options. "It takes a good nine months to set up an in vitro fertilization clinic with a laboratory.

Giving us three months' notice assures that there will be at least six months of downtime in this city," he said.Lisa Brunette, a spokeswoman for the University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics, said the decision emerged from a strategic planning process that focuses on developing "centers of excellence" clinical programs."It is more of a services planning thing.

We are focusing on long-standing programs such as cardiology, transplants and orthopedics that we are building into centers of excellence, if they are not already there," Brunette said.A major factor that prevented the Women's Endocrine Clinic from becoming such a center was that the hospital does not offer birthing services, Brunette noted."If you wanted to offer re...