Brighter Than Ever is the most ambitious and comprehensive engagement and philanthropy campaign in the organization’s history.
The Enteral Feeding Program at Children's Wisconsin is the only fully integrated, multidisciplinary newborn nutrition programs in the country.
Smriti Khare, MD, president of primary care at Children's Wisconsin, was interviewed for a Children's Hospitals Today story about children's hospitals being at the forefront of COVID-19 vaccine efforts.
Children's Wisconsin is among a coalition of more than 100 children's hospitals participating in the Children's Hospitals' COVID Vaccination for Kids Initiative. Children's Hospital Association, in partnership with the Biden administration, is organizing the initiative to elevate the trusted voices and efforts of children's hospitals and health systems in their communities to vaccinate 5- to 11-year-olds against COVID-19.
Key to the campaign's success, according to Khare, is engaging entire communities around the effort. To that end, Children's Wisconsin—in partnership with the Milwaukee health department and the city's public and private school systems—is augmenting its own vaccination efforts with more than 20 clinics at area schools.
While the current focus is 5- to 11-year-olds, the mass vaccination clinics are open to anyone on a walk-in or appointment basis—Khare says the hospital's vaccination clinic logged more than 5,000 appointments within days of the online scheduling system's opening. To streamline appointments, Children's Wisconsin has set up a texting system for patients and their families.
"It's a public health disease; it can't be a single family or group of folks mitigating the impact of the pandemic," Khare says. "It is important the community pulls together to make the difference."
Read the full story from Children's Hospitals Today.
Most children spend very little time interacting with doctors, nurses, or other health care professionals. To make a significant impact on children's overall health, we reach out to families beyond our hospital and clinic walls.
Brighter Than Ever is the most ambitious and comprehensive engagement and philanthropy campaign in the organization’s history.
The MACC Fund Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders is only center in Wisconsin to offer FDA-approved Casgevy therapy to children with severe sickle cell disease or transfusion-dependent thalassemia.
It's been nearly five years since Children's Wisconsin launched a five-year plan to improve access to behavioral health care for children and adolescents.
Children’s Wisconsin is proud to announce the creation of the Craig Yabuki Mental Health Center.
The Children’s Wisconsin board of directors has named Gil Peri as the organization’s new president and CEO, effective August 12, 2024.
The two-day radiothon featured stories of how Children’s Wisconsin impacts the health of thousands of children statewide.
The Children’s Wisconsin Center for Child Development focuses on integrated health services for children with developmental diagnoses.