Visitor guidelines

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Masking and self-screening

Masks are optional at Children’s Wisconsin locations

If you’re feeling sick, or if you’ve been in close contact with someone with COVID-19 in the past 10 days, you must wear a mask. Otherwise, wearing a mask is optional. We’ll continue to provide masks at our entrances for those who want them.

We want all families to feel comfortable while in our care. If you wear a mask, your care team will wear a mask while providing care for your child.

Visiting our hospitals and specialty care clinics

Self-screen for symptoms of illness before you visit 

Everyone must screen themselves for symptoms of illness, such as COVID-19 and flu, before entering our locations. This includes patients, visitors, vendors and our staff and providers.

Screen yourself with these two questions.

1. Have you tested positive for COVID in the past 10 days?
2. Do you have any of these symptoms?

• Chills or fever
• Cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
• Fatigue
• Muscle, body aches or headache
• New loss of taste or smell
• Sore throat
• Congestion or runny nose
• Nausea, vomiting or diarrhea

If you answered no to both questions, you can safely enter our locations.

If you answered yes to either question, consider talking to your child’s care team.

Who can visit

In our Milwaukee and Fox Valley hospitals:

• Acute care units: Four individuals of any age are allowed at the bedside at a time. Up to 20 individuals can be on a child's visitor list. These names must remain the same for the patient’s entire stay.
• Milwaukee NICU and PICU: Two individuals (siblings of any age or non-siblings age 18 and older) are allowed at the bedside at a time. Up to 20 individuals are allowed on a patient’s visitor list. These names must remain the same for the patient’s entire stay.
• Fox Valley NICU: 4 individuals (siblings of any age or non-siblings age 18 and older) are allowed at the bedside at a time. Up to six individuals (siblings of any age or non-siblings age 18 or over) are allowed on patient's visitor list; names must remain the same for the entire stay. 

COVID-19-positive patients: Two adults (age 18 and older) are allowed at the bedside at a time. Two adults are allowed on a patient’s visitor list. These two names must remain the same for the entire stay.

COVID-19-exposed patients: Two adults are allowed at the bedside at a time. Four adults are allowed on a patient’s visitor list. These four names must remain the same for the entire stay.

In our Primary Care, Urgent Care, Emergency Department, Specialty Care, imaging, outpatient laboratories, therapies and community services: Up to four individuals of any age may accompany a patient or client.

In our Surgicenter and surgical services on the Milwaukee campus: Two adults (age 18 and older) may accompany the patient.