American Family Children’s Hospital
The Future Needs Us Now
Remarkable Medicine for Kids
To save a child, you do whatever it takes. For the experts in medicine and surgery at American Family Children’s Hospital, that’s more than a mind-set — it’s a mission they’ve dedicated their lives to fulfilling.
For more than 100 years, the children’s hospital has been focused on caring for all kids, including the sickest and most seriously injured infants, children, and adolescents.
Please do whatever you can to ensure that the remarkable patient- and family-centered care can continue for generations to come. Your gift is critical to helping the American Family Children’s Hospital and the UW’s Department of Pediatrics conduct groundbreaking pediatric research and clinical trials that save lives, achieve the best outcomes possible, and remain among the nation’s top children’s hospitals. Every child is worth it.
Wisconsin Medicine is a partnership between world-leading medical institutions UW Health and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, who have partnered for more than 100 years on innovative treatments, research, education, and compassionate patient care. This powerful combination is in a unique position to usher in a new era through the Wisconsin Medicine campaign.
Make Your Impact
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Greatest Need Fund
Gifts to the Greatest Need Fund give American Family Children’s Hospital the flexibility to rapidly respond to the most crucial areas of need — in treatment, research, and care — at any moment.
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Child Life
You can help provide the calm to the care. The Child Life program is supported entirely by philanthropy and eases the anxiety kids have while staying in the hospital and receiving difficult treatments.
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Patient and Family Support
Funded entirely by gifts from generous donors like you, the patient and family support program eases stress by providing families with comforting meals and help with select bills and transportation costs.
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Research
Cutting-edge advances in children’s medicine start with you. Your gift will go to physicians who conduct research that improves quality of life — and ultimately saves the lives of children.
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Kids Cancer
With your support, physician scientists can continue to develop more effective cancer treatments for children, with fewer life-long side effects, and champion innovations in patient care.
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Kids Heart
Your gift to one of the nation’s top pediatric cardiology and heart surgery programs will go toward the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of heart disease in children and young adults.
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Kids Neurology
Through your support of the kids neurology research fund, you can help ensure that all children reach their full potential and live happier, healthier lives.
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Kids Transplant
By supporting the UW Health Kids transplant services, you’ll provide nationally respected experts with the ability to continue to evaluate and serve kids who need kidney, liver, lung, and pancreas transplants.
Virtual Toy Drive
Help deliver happiness and healing. All donations will be matched 100% up to $50,000 by American Family Insurance.
Impact In Action
Easing the Stress and Anxiety of Hospitalized Children
“Child Life helped demystify the process and make it less scary. We’re sitting here as parents watching and soaking in all the information too, and feeling more at ease knowing that Teddy is less anxious,”
Specially trained Child Life specialists help our patients and their families cope with being in the hospital by providing individualized therapeutic experiences. Child Life helps the hospital feel more like home by offering family meals, fun and distraction in the playrooms and the bedside, coordinated activities and visits from special guests.
A Cause Close to the Heart
“Being able to contribute to this world-class children’s hospital is both an honor and a privilege. The new facility will be a beneficial legacy to all the children and families who pass through its doors.”
George Fait was passionate about pediatric medicine. With seven grandsons and more than six decades of generosity toward UW–Madison, George rallied his three children and their spouses to focus their philanthropic sites on creating the George Fait Family Pediatric Specialty Clinics at the American Family Children’s Hospital.
Additional Impacts in Action
UW Health and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health have touched so many lives. And each story — from patients and doctors to researchers and students — offers inspiration and a resolve to continue blazing new trails. Check out every amazing story that has us all striving for a healthier tomorrow.
2024 Report to Donors
Your gift to UW Health Kids American Family Children’s Hospital changes lives, and we are so grateful for your partnership. We are pleased to present the 2024 Report to Donors and to introduce you to some of the children and families you’ve impacted in the past year. Your generosity is changing the future of health care for children.
Upcoming Events
Program Highlights
American Family Children’s Hospital Pride Points
Ranked among the nation’s best children’s hospitals for 11 consecutive years by U.S. News & World Report
Level I pediatric trauma center
Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (highest level of NICU)
Dedicated pediatric emergency department
Pioneer in childhood cancer treatment and care, a member of the prestigious childhood cancer Dream Team, and the provider of the first-ever successful bone-marrow transplant
Has proudly cared for children and families from 49 of the 50 states, since opening in 2007
Ranked 7th in the nation for receiving research funding from the National Institutes of Health
262 expert pediatric physicians and surgeons
111-bed facility
Hospital-based school, staffed by three Madison Metropolitan School District teachers
Programs of Distinction
Cancer and Blood Diseases
Working to fight the most difficult-to-treat childhood cancers, American Family Children’s Hospital is a member of the pediatric cancer Dream Team. And, as part of the UW Carbone Cancer Center, the hospital offers the latest treatments and protocols for childhood leukemia, brain tumors, and neuroblastoma.
Comprehensive Heart Care
Pumping new life into children’s hearts, the hospital is dedicated to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of heart disease in neonates through young adults and is ranked among the nation’s top 40 pediatric cardiology and heart surgery programs (U.S. News & World Report).
Transplant Services
Giving kids a chance at a better life, American Family Children’s Hospital’s nationally respected experts evaluate and serve kids who need kidney, liver, lung, and pancreas transplants through the UW Health Kids transplant program.
Pediatric Neurology
Connecting kids to the care they need, the hospital offers specialty treatment for neurological conditions such as headaches, neuromuscular disorders, neuropsychological conditions, and epilepsy. The comprehensive epilepsy center is one of only two level 4 epilepsy centers in Wisconsin.
Volunteer Groups
American Family Children’s Hospital receives tremendous support from the following volunteer groups: American Family Children’s Hospital Development Partners Advisory Board, Community Around the Children’s Hospital, and Friends of UW Health. Learn more about these valuable groups.
Questions about the American Family Children’s Hospital
Ushering in a new era of medicine and tackling the toughest challenges in health care may leave you as curious as you are excited.
To discover more about planned giving and chairs and professorships — and how vital both are to keeping the American Family Children’s Hospital among the nation’s top children’s hospitals — please complete the following contact form. Reach out with any questions or comments about those major efforts or other issues you’d like to discuss. We’d love to continue the conversation about the ways the American Family Children’s Hospital is caring for all kids.
The Future Needs Us Now — The Campaign for Wisconsin Medicine
UW Health and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health are ushering in a new era of medicine — one that builds on breakthroughs to save more lives.