Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin has experienced steady, ongoing growth in patient volumes over the past few years. Admissions, patient days and outpatient visits have all reached record levels annually and have exceeded projections of expected growth.

In 2005 for example, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin admitted more than 22,243 children to the hospital, an increase of 13.3 percent over five years. In addition, nearly 250,000 children were seen in the hospital’s specialty outpatient clinics, up 46 percent since 2000. In the same five years, the Emergency Department visits and surgical cases have increased 28.2 percent and 14 percent, respectively.

The west tower is a 425,000-square-foot addition and will include 12-stories of patient clinics and specialized rooms. The addition will take the 236-bed hospital to 294 beds, with capacity for an additional 72 beds in the future.

The addition will include expanded pediatric intensive care units – two 24-bed units – and a larger, more comprehensive Herma Heart Center to provide better care to children with congenital and other cardiac issues.

Each floor will feature private rooms to achieve national standards to address family privacy issues and control infections. The interior of each room will have an entertainment center, complete with a flat screen television and DVD player; a workstation for patients’ computer needs and much more.

As units are moved to the new wing, many of the units in the current hospital will be renovated. The renovations to the existing hospital already are underway.

The expansion is scheduled to be completed in the spring of 2009.

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