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If you or your child has COVID-19 symptoms (fever, cough or shortness of breath) or other COVID-19 concerns, call your child’s doctor or visit Children’s Online Urgent Care.
As challenging as they can be, remember, sleep struggles are temporary. And with some helpful tips, you and your baby will get the rest you both need.
New clinic would replace location at Sixteenth Street Community Health Center.
Through the organ recovery process, organs were determined to be a match with five patients at Children’s Wisconsin. In my nearly 30 years of being a doctor, I have never heard of five matches being found at a single hospital.
Decisions on who receives an organ are made by the United Network for Organ Sharing computer system, which generates a ranked list of candidates who would have the best possible chance of long-term survival. Since all regional candidates are considered, it is not always the case that a donated organ would go to a patient at the same hospital. Having all the matches here at Children’s Wisconsin not only amazes me, but reflects the volume of critically ill patients we care for every year.
Within 24 hours after the organs became available, the transplant teams at our hospital completed a heart, two liver and two kidney transplants. To put that in perspective, our hospital typically completes 20 to 30 organ transplants a year.
Our doctors, nurses and staff came together to schedule operating rooms, procure necessary supplies, and prepare the children and families for the surgeries they had all been hoping, dreaming and praying for.
The fact that Children’s Wisconsin not only had the expertise to care for these kids waiting for organs, but also to successfully complete the transplants in a single day is a testament to the dedication, compassion and expertise of our doctors, nurses and staff that together form a world-class pediatric transplant center.
A collective team of hundreds of people worked together to successfully take these five families on an amazing journey of hope — from the laboratory team running the required tests to determine matches to the imaging department providing necessary pictures to prepare for surgery, and the clinical teams on patient floors supporting recovery.
But for all the medicine, training, equipment and staff that Children’s Wisconsin has, this story isn’t possible without the courageous decision of a family during a time of unimaginable heartache.
It is a circumstance no one wants to consider or contemplate. But if more individuals and families made that same decision, more lives could be saved. Children’s Wisconsin is currently working with 26 children with impaired organs, 15 of which are on the active waiting list, with almost 2,000 kids waiting around the country.
I encourage everyone to consider adding their name to the Wisconsin Donor Registry list and to visit the National Kidney Registry to learn about being a live donor. As this story demonstrates, we all have a role in saving more lives.
For kids with motility disorders, a new device is providing relief and hope.
What was supposed to be the happiest time of their lives quickly came crashing down.
For Becky and Jerry Jendusa, and their five children, giving back and helping others are their family's mission.
The Gender Health Clinic is the first clinic in southeastern Wisconsin dedicated exclusively to caring for gender diverse kids.
Up until the age of 16, kids have growth plates at the end of their bones where the bone grows longer. If a break includes the growth plate, it requires pediatric expertise to treat.
As the whole world adjusts to the realities of social distancing, 20-year-old Taylor has been living with it her whole life.
While these are extraordinary times, more than 1,800 nurses at Children's Wisconsin bring the same exceptional dedication to their work every day.
