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UI Stead Family Children's Hospital

This is what the children's hospital looks like. Kids come here for many different things.

Parking Ramp 2's entrance

We can park in the underground parking ramp or get out of our car at the front door.

Cars parked inside Parking Ramp 2

This is what we will see inside the parking ramp.

Parking Ramp 2 looking into the elevator bay

We go through doors to get to the elevator when we leave our car in the parking ramp.

Elevator in Parking Ramp 2

This is the elevator in the ramp. We will take it to the entrance of the hospital.

Gerdin Family Lobby

We check in at the desk in the lobby before we go to our appointment.

Elevator doors inside UI Stead Family Children's Hospital

We take another elevator to go to our appointment in the hospital.

Mother and her child inside an elevator at UI Stead Family Children's Hospital

We take another elevator to go to our appointment in the hospital.

Mother and her child check in at the front desk.

We check in at the desk.

Mother and her child wait in the waiting room

We wait in the waiting room until the nurse is ready to see me.

Child hugs a stuffed monkey toy while sitting with their mother in a waiting room

Today I brought my special monkey with me.

Nurse calling a patient's name

The nurse calls my name.

Mother and her child walk with a nurse

We walk with her.

Child wearing socks stands next to their shoes

I take my shoes off for my weight and height.

Nurse measures a child's weight on a scale

The nurse weighs me.

Nurse measures a child's height

Then the nurse measures how tall I am.

Mother, her child, and the nurse walk down a hallway

We find my room.

Mother, her child, and nurse enter a hospital room

I see my bed and some things the nurse will use to take care of me.

Mother and child wait in a hospital room

My family can sit with me.

Medical equipment monitor in a hospital room

My nurse may use a monitor to see how I am doing.

Nurse checks a child's temperature

The nurse checks my temperature in my ear.

Child wearing a pulse monitor in a hospital bed

The nurse puts a red light on my finger. It does not hurt me.

Nurse puts a blood pressure cuff on a child's arm

The nurse puts a cuff on my arm.

Child wearing a blood pressure cuff

The cuff checks my blood pressure.

Child wearing hospital pajamas with their mom and a nurse

I may change into hospital pajamas.

Child laying in a hospital bed

I will sit on the bed.