American Family Children's Hospital

About

American Family Children's Hospital is a comprehensive pediatric medical and surgical center featuring more than 250 pediatric specialists and surgeons.

Story

American Family Children's Hospital is an 87-bed comprehensive pediatric medical and surgical center specializing in the most advanced medical care for children of all ages. Nearly 300 University of Wisconsin-Madison pediatricians and pediatric surgeons – many of whom are nationally or internationally known for their clinical research – provide remarkable care for our young patients. Our current facility, which is connected to University Hospital, opened in 2007, and offers patients and families a modern, yet intimate and comforting environment for healing.

While most patients come to American Family Children’s from Wisconsin and northern Illinois, American Family Children’s Hospital has cared for children from 49 of the 50 states. In fiscal year 2016, we recorded more than 3,800 inpatient admissions, 5,800 surgical procedures and 149,000 outpatient visits (in primary and specialty care clinics). The hospital also has a strong regional presence, with UW Health pediatric specialists seeing patients in 28 locations across Wisconsin and northern Illinois.

American Family Children’s Hospital is consistently named a Best Children’s Hospital in multiple specialties by U.S. News & World Report. It also was the first in the world to offer patients an array of catheterization and angiography procedures using state-of-the-art equipment yielding 60-to-80 percent less radiation than used in conventional catheterization or radiology labs.

Moreover, several of our nearly 300 University of Wisconsin faculty physicians – all members of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, have, through clinical research, played an instrumental role in developing more effective treatments for childhood cancer, asthma and other diseases.

American Family Children’s Hospital’s origins date back nearly a century, when the Mary Cornelia Bradley Hospital for the Study of Children’s Diseases opened in 1920 on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

OUR VISION
• Be one of the nation’s best and safest children’s hospitals
• Be a model for patient and family-centered care
• Be the provider of choice for children’s health care in Wisconsin
• Continue to innovate and pursue excellence, especially in the following areas:
-- comprehensive pediatric specialty care serving communities throughout Wisconsin and beyond
-- pediatric cancer care and bone marrow transplant
-- neonatal and pediatric surgery
-- critical care and critical care transport
-- pediatric trauma and emergency services
-- comprehensive children’s heart program
-- national leader in pediatric imaging with low dose protocols
-- model for child health advocacy, prevention and population health

Mission

American Family Children's Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin provides specialized care in a healing environment designed especially for pediatric patients and their families.