Children's Transport, the hospital's specialized pediatric transport team, brings nearly 800 seriously ill and injured children each year from other hospitals throughout the region to Children's Hospital for care. Other outstanding programs include cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, organ transplantation, craniofacial surgery, neurology, pediatric surgery and the Child Protection Center for the comprehensive assessment and treatment of children suspected to be victims of child abuse or neglect. The hospital also established the Jane B. Pettit Pain Management Center in 1998, staffed by Medical College faculty, to study pain relief in children and pursue innovative approaches, including acupuncture and meditation. Thanks to its wide range of programs and services, Children's Hospital offers outstanding educational opportunities. They range from fellowships in pediatric critical care or pediatric emergency medicine to providing primary care at the hospital's Downtown Health Center, to injury prevention and advocacy programs aimed at protecting children from abuse and neglect, treating pediatric HIV, and educating people about serious problems facing children and helping them turn their concerns into action.
Patients come from Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and beyond.
About 180,000 children per year are seen in the hospital's more than 80 specialty clinics. Emergency Medicine residents gain experience in a supervised community emergency department with an annual patient census of 25,000. Other rotations available at this hospital include an intensive OB service, and experience in the only Burn Unit in Southeastern Wisconsin. Covenant Health Care - Milwaukee St. Joseph's Hospital One of the largest private hospitals in the State of Wisconsin, St. Joseph's is located on Milwaukee's North Side. St. Joe's offers an excellent ward medicine experience for the Emergency Medicine residency program.