A Leader in Children's Health Care

• Wolfson Children's Hospital’s mission is to advance pediatric health care through:
  • Patient- and family-centered care
  • Education, research and child advocacy
• Wolfson Children's Hospital is unique in that it is the only full-service tertiary hospital for children in North Florida, serving this region, South Georgia and beyond
• Jacksonville's only Children’s Emergency Center, with physicians double board-certified in pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine
• Recently named among the top children’s hospital in the country by U.S. News & World Report
• Awarded Magnet™ status in 2007, an international honor that recognizes excellence in patient care
• Provides more than $21.2 million of community benefit during fiscal year 2010, includign $2 million in charity care and $16.2 million in uncompensated care. In fact, Wolfson Children's is the largest provider of free care to children in Jacksonville.
• Nearly all pediatric and pediatric surgical subspecialties represented in our facility

By the Numbers

• More than 650 full-time staff
• More than 400 full-time physicians
• 194 beds
• 10 operating rooms and one special procedure room
• Nearly 11,000 surgeries in 2010
• More than 10,000 admissions, with an average of 136 children hospitalized daily
• Nearly 54,000 visits to our Children’s Emergency Center
• More than 750 neonatal and pediatric transports from local and other Florida hospitals through the Kids Kare critical care ambulance
• More than 100 pediatric transports by Life Flight, Baptist Health's air ambulance service
• 172 active research studies
• 96,000 glasses of milk served each year
• 16,490 popsicles consumed each year

Service Highlights

• Brunell Family Children's Neurodiagnostic Center
• C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Children’s Heart Center
• Childhood Cancer Center
• Clinical Research Center
• Community Asthma Partnership at Wolfson
• Donna M. Hall Children's Dialysis Program
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program
• KidsKare Neonatal and Pediatric Transport Service
• Level III 48-bed Newborn Intensive Care Unit at Wolfson Children's Hospital and 14-bed NICU at Baptist Medical Center South, a Wolfson Children's Hospital service
• 20-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
• Lucy Gooding Children's Neurosurgery Center
• Minimally Invasive Surgery Center
• Northeast Florida Pediatric Diabetes Center
• Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant program, a partnership with Nemours Children's Clinic and Mayo Clinic
• Wolfson Children’s Rehabilitation has four locations, including their primary site, Drew Bradbury Center

Child Advocacy

• THE PLAYERS Center for Child Health at Wolfson Children's Hospital
• Florida Association of Children’s Hospitals
• National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions
• Community Asthma Partnership at Wolfson
• Safe Kids Northeast Florida

Building for the Future

Multi-year expansion that will be complete by late this year will provide:

• Increased number and size of patient rooms
• Increased number of operating rooms
• New pediatric cardiovascular and neurosurgical operating suites
• Expanded space for state-of-the-art laboratories
• Expanded Clinical Research Center
• New Behavioral Health Unit
• Expanded Hematology/Oncology Unit
• New technology for neurosurgery, cardiovascular surgery and other specialties, includnig intra-operative iMRI and iCT
• Neurological/neurosurgical intensive care unit
• Cardiovascular intensive care unit