Wisconsin Newborn Screening Laboratory
Helping babies get started on the right foot
The Newborn Screening (NBS) Program screens infants born in Wisconsin for 44 disorders, hearing loss, and critical congenital heart disease (CCHD).
The Wisconsin Newborn Screening website is dedicated to promoting and encouraging the sharing of knowledge, communication and resources with healthcare agencies, families, and anyone else interested in NBS for the benefit of babies born in Wisconsin.
For more information on:
- Newborn blood screening, please call the Newborn
Screening Laboratory at 608-262-6547.
- Hearing loss screening, please call the Wisconsin
Department of Health Services (DHS) at 608-267-9191.
- Critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) screening,
please call SHINE personnel at 608-265-1894.
- How quickly hospitals send specimen cards to the Newborn Screening Laboratory, please see this report
or visit the Wisconsin Hospital Association’s CheckPoint
Birth Measures Report for this data and additional quality indicators.
- GOLD CROSS is the selected courier service for the WSLH. Click on its name for details.
- New! More Continuing Education opportunities! We now have two webinars that highlight proper newborn screening specimen collection techniques: Basics on Newborn Screening Specimen Collection and Submission and Blood Collection for Babies in Special Care Units. Visit our Continuing Education web page for more information and access to the training.
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