MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Children's Wisconsin is celebrating the new emergency department and trauma center that is underway at the hospital. You can see construction taking place with a lot of metal beams, but a very special metal beam was placed on Friday, Aug. 26. <\/p>\n
This beam was signed by patients, their families and staff. It's a symbol of the need and importance of a new, modern emergency and trauma department.<\/p>\n
That same family and staff was there when the beam was lifted in to place. To celebrate, Children's Wisconsin had construction toys and robots for kids to play with.<\/p>\n
The new building will be called the Skywalk Building. It will have 16 more rooms than the current space and it will have features the current hospital doesn't have.<\/p>\n
\"Weve been working out of a space thats been in place since 1988 and were ready to move into a bigger brighter more accessible space that allows to serve the children and families of Wisconsin,\" said Amy Drendel the medical director of the emergency department.<\/p>\n
Construction is expected to be done by late 2023. Children's Wisconsin is the leading pediatric hospital in the state.<\/p>\n
\"We serve hundreds of children every day. Yesterday we saw 200 kids in our emergency department,\" said Drendel.<\/p>\n
You can spot the new beam by the tree attached to the top of it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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