Magnet Recognition

In 2025, Children’s Wisconsin earned the highly coveted Magnet Recognition Program® status for the fifth consecutive time from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Magnet designation is granted every four years to those organizations that demonstrate sustained excellence in nursing care.

What makes this fifth Magnet designation especially exciting is that it validates the quality and standards of care in all areas where nursing is practiced at Children’s: our Milwaukee and Fox Valley hospitals, specialty and primary care clinics, and community, and school-based nursing environments.

Children’s now joins the ranks of an elite group of health systems across the globe.  Fewer than 3% of health systems worldwide have received Magnet designation, with just 80 organizations  - less than .5% - achieving this honor five times.

Magnet status is the highest level of formal recognition for nursing excellence and is considered the gold standard for hospitals. Children’s Wisconsin in Milwaukee was one of the first pediatric hospitals to achieve this status when it first achieved Magnet designation in 2004.