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Special Services

HSHS St. Vincent Children's Hospital offers many services to make your family’s stay as pleasant and convenient as possible. In the end, we want to make sure your child is comfortable, and can feel like a kid.

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Advance Directives

We honor Advance Directives. An Advance Directive is a written statement signed by you naming a person who will make your health care decisions for you if you become unable to do so.

Click here to learn more about advanced directives or call the Pastoral Care Department 920-498-4282.


Child Life

A free service for children, teens, young adults and families at HSHS St. Vincent Children’s Hospital, our Child Life team helps kids and families through their journey so they can feel like a kid, even in the most challenging of circumstances.

Click here to learn more.

Ethics Committee

Making a difficult medical decision for yourself or a loved can be confusing, frightening or painful, especially if it is about your or a loved one’s end of life care. Having a good understanding among your family members and health care providers may lessen your fears that these kinds of decisions can cause.

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Resources

Hearing Impaired

A telecommunications device is available to help hearing impaired patients, or patients who want to communicate with a hearing impaired relative or friend. We can also arrange to have a person who uses sign language to help hearing impaired or deaf patients.

Interpreters 

We can provide an interpreter for a number of foreign languages.  If you need an interpreter, please ask a nurse for help. 

Notary Public 

A notary is available for patients free of charge. Your nurse can assist you in locating a notary on our hospital campus.