MADISON, Wis. -- Accusations of sexual harassment and infighting among its doctors are now swirling around the fertility clinic that the University of Wisconsin is closing come June.

The head of the UW Medical Foundation, which hires doctors at the Women's Endocrine Clinic, said that one of the problems with the clinic is internal.

This fighting among the three clinic doctors is one of the reasons the University Medical School won't help the clinic find a new location, WISC-TV reported. The 23-year-old clinic will close at UW Hospital on June 30.

The hospital recently sent letters to 3,000 patients who were seen at the clinic in the last three years. The patients were told the clinic wasn't a good fit for the hospital, partly because it doesn’t have a birthing facility.

Dr. Jeffrey Grossman, head of the foundation, said in a statement to the community that the doctors at the clinic can't get along, WISC-TV reported.

"It became increasingly clear to us that there were a remarkable set of tensions among the three faculty physicians in the group; those tensions were escalating," Grossman said.

Grossman said that the problem is so pervasive it derailed nine months of planning to move the clinic to a Middleton location last month, amid news that tension among the doctors was escalating.

"It seemed to us that the only prudent thing to do, the only responsible thing to do, the only thing to do that really was in the patients' best, long-term interest was to put a moratorium on this planning," he said.

One of the physicians, Dr. Elizabeth Pritts, has filed a sexual harassment complaint against one of her colleagues in January.

When interviewed by WISC-TV on Tuesday, Pritts made no mention of this, and said that she knew of no reason the UW Foundation and school were no longer interested.

"The hospital pulling out … was a surprise and it was very short notice," she said. "(It's) not what we had expected, but the bigger surprise was when the Medical Foundation said that they weren't interested in continuing this."

Pritts is married to one of the other two physicians at the clinic and filed the complaint against the third, Dr. Steven Lindheim. In the complaint filed with the state's Equal Rights Division, Pritts alleges that there was sexual harassment against her and female students.

According to the complaint, Pritts said that at one point, Lindheim came into a patient area with a surgical gown that had parts of the female anatomy drawn on it.

Pritts said that the alleged harassment started when Lindheim was first hired in 2003.

Officials with the Medical Foundation said that there are plans to continue working toward another fertility clinic in the future, WISC-TV reported.