Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin provides full range of care
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is the state's only hospital dedicated entirely to the care of sick and injured children. It is a private, independent, not-for-profit regional pediatric medical center.
The hospital provides primary, secondary and tertiary inpatient care, as well as outpatient care, to children ranging in age from neonates to adolescents.
Multi-disciplinary teams of physicians, nurses and many other health care professionals specializing in pediatrics are available to meet the full range of patient-care needs.
A number of regional referral centers are located at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, including the Child Protection Center, Child Development Center, Jane B. Pettit Pain Management Center, The Heart Center, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Poison Center and the Infant Death Center of Wisconsin to name just a few.
The hospital admitted 22,190 infants, children and adolescents in 2006. Children's Hospital admits more patients than any other pediatric hospital in the United States. Many of those admissions came from the busy Emergency Department/ Trauma Center (ED/TC), where more than 60,000 patients were treated in 2006.
More than 70 Children's Hospital specialty outpatient clinics provide diagnosis and treatment for a wide variety of pediatric disorders. The specialty clinics serve more than 225,000 children annually.
The Children's Hospital Radiology Department has seven pediatric radiologists dedicated to providing outstanding service and teaching.
The current Children's Hospital opened in December 1988 on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center campus in Wauwatosa. During the last 12 years, growth has been a way of life at Children's Hospital. All service areas - inpatient and outpatient - have experienced growth during this time. A new tower is currently under construction and set to open in Spring 2009.
The hospital has remained responsive to the health care needs of the children of Milwaukee, the state of Wisconsin, Michigan's Upper Peninsula and northern Illinois, as well as to the changing medical delivery system.
Our 236-bed hospital provides general inpatient care for pediatric medical and surgical problems, in addition to special care units in critical care, neonatology, rehabilitative care and hematology/oncology/bone marrow transplantation.
In 1997, a new perinatal center opened - the Froedtert Birth Center, a joint program with the Medical College of Wisconsin. It features a state-of-the-art labor and delivery suite, normal newborn nursery and perinatal diagnostic center. This facility is staffed by physicians from the Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Obstetrics and Perinatal Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics Division of Neonatology. Residents participate in stabilization and resuscitation of newborns in the delivery room, normal newborn care and procedures such as circumcision.
The ED/TC is unique in that the pediatric emergency facilities are adjacent to the adult emergency facilities of Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital. A trauma team is available 24 hours a day to handle pediatric trauma emergencies.
In addition, Children's Hospital operates three urgent care sites in the community to provide non-emergent pediatric care evenings and weekends and is affiliated with 17 primary pediatric practices located throughout the community.
Children's Hospital is at the geographic center of the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center, which includes Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Curative Rehabilitation Center, the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Medical College's Eye Institute.
Connected to Children's Hospital - via a skywalk - is the Medical College of Wisconsin.
The medical college is known for its excellent basic science and clinical experience and faculty dedicated to teaching.
Located in a park-like, suburban setting, the college provides research and teaching in every specialty and subspecialty of medicine.
There are more than 172 full-time faculty in the Department of Pediatrics, supported by more than 186 community pediatricians holding clinical faculty appointments. Teaching faculty is rounded out by pediatric medical and surgical subspecialists in all areas.
Exposure to primary care community pediatric practitioners is one of the truly unique aspects of the training program at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. Children's Hospital is not only a referral center, but also functions as the community hospital for Milwaukee's pediatricians and their patients. Rarely is a major tertiary referral medical center/teaching facility so accessible to community pediatricians. This allows more than 40 community pediatricians to act as teaching attendings for inpatient ward teams paired with full-time faculty. There are nearly 40 pediatric practices in eastern Wisconsin actively involved in teaching students and residents in their practices. And, Pediatric Grand Rounds are attended by 30 to 40 community pediatricians weekly. Our residents see firsthand that community pediatrics and academic pediatrics do not have to be the separate worlds portrayed in many medical centers.
In January of 2007 the Children's Research Institute opened its new state of the art translational and basic research building. More than 200 researchers are currently working there. Pediatric related research funding for medicine and surgery is currently greater than $26 million dollars. There were 741 active clinical studies in 2006 and these numbers continue to grow.
Major ongoing research is conducted in birth defects, bone marrow transplantation, diabetes, hematology, oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, endocrinology and many other disciplines.