Fast Facts on Wolfson Children's Hospital
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 Northeast Florida, serving this region, Southeast 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 three children’s hospitals in the state of Florida by Child magazine
- Awarded Magnet™ status, an international honor that recognizes excellence in patient care
- Provides more than $10 million in charity care per year, and is the largest provider of free care to children in Jacksonville
- Nearly all pediatric and pediatric surgical subspecialties are represented in our facility
- More than 600 full-time staff
- More than 400 full-time physicians
- 180 beds
- 10 operating rooms and one special procedure room
- More than 11,000 surgeries in 2007, of which nearly 8,500 were outpatient
- Nearly 11,000 admissions, including 6,500 inpatients and more than 4,000 observation stays
- More than 41,000 patient days
- More than 46,000 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
- 137 active research studies
- 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 II & III 48-bed Newborn Intensive Care Unit
- 20-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- Lucy Gooding Children's Neurosurgery Center
- Northeast Florida Pediatric Diabetes Center
- Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant program, a partnership with Nemours Children's Clinic and Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
- Wolfson Children’s Rehabilitation has four locations, including their primary site, Drew Bradbury Center, the primary site
- Association of Florida Children’s Hospitals
- Community Asthma Partnership at Wolfson
- National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions
- Safe Kids Northeast Florida
- 33 residents from the University of Florida/Jacksonville, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville and the St. Vincent’s Family Practice Residency Program
- Nearly 50 medical staff members on the University of Florida (UF) faculty, with an additional 37 who have courtesy UF appointments
- Increased number and size of patient rooms
- Increased number of operating rooms
- Expanded space for state-of-the-art laboratories and clinical research
- Expanded space for outpatient services
- New technology for neurosurgery, cardiovascular surgery and other specialties
