technician on the hospital's stroke care team applied for a similar job at St. Elizabeth Hospital across town. St. Elizabeth Hospital is owned and operated by Ascension. They accepted the position after being offered much higher pay and better terms of employment than at ThedaCare. Seven of the other ten ThedaCare team members then also applied for Ascension positions and were hired. The workers who left said that before they did, they asked ThedaCare if it could match the offers they had received, and the company declined. All the employees were on an at-will employment status with ThedaCare and therefore had no contractual obligation to remain employed with the company. Instead, a month later, ThedaCare filed for a temporary injunction in Outagamie County Court, seeking to prevent Ascension from fully employing those workers for 90 days, or until it could replace them. It argued that if they left when they did, it would be unable to provide the stroke care that had made it the only Level II stroke care unit in the Fox Valley and residents would be forced to go farther. On January 22, the injunction was granted, but the judge encouraged the hospitals to resolve their differences quickly. On January 24, Thedacare lost its court battle to keep health care staff who wanted to work for Ascension. Later that week Thedacare dropped their lawsuit against Ascension. See also ThedaCare Regional Medical Center–Appleton References External links Theda Clark Memorial Hospital From A History of Neenah Theda Clark Hospital at If Neenah's Walls could Talk Hospitals in Wisconsin Buildings and structures in Winnebago County, Wisconsin Hospitals established in 1909 Trauma centers