Florida

Every facet of the Nemours Children’s Clinic in Florida puts the needs of the child first. Every day, we serve thousands of infants, children and adolescents from the South, across the country and around the world. Since opening in Jacksonville in 1987, Nemours has been dedicated to providing the highest standard of children’s health care in the area. With additional locations in Orlando and Pensacola, our Florida clinics are significant contributors to Nemours’ comprehensive approach to disease management.

All three Florida clinic locations deliver critical services through top-ranked, accredited programs and services to ensure patients receive needed treatments and procedures. These internationally respected programs are developing medical techniques and innovative services, raising the level of care and bringing peace of mind to parents and families.

In 2006, the Nemours Children’s Clinic in Florida focused on expansion of the practices and development of an integrated children’s health system, anchored by a proposed new children’s hospital and outpatient clinic. Advances came in the form of satellite offices, specialty programs and safer technology. One advancement is the use of robotics as a minimally invasive alternative for urologic or general surgery offering less pain and earlier recovery. Additionally, two Jacksonville physicians created “firsts” in the state: the partial removal of a spleen using robotics and the use of Balloon Sinusplasty.^TM

Nemours Florida physicians cared for more than 109,000 children this year. Of these, almost 44,000 were new patients. Additionally, Nemours provided more than 230,000 outpatient visits. Nemours remains the predominant provider of pediatric specialty services in Jacksonville and Pensacola, while the uncertainty of the Orlando hospital and subsequent loss of some physicians contributed to a slight decline in overall utilization.

Ever-improving technologies allow Nemours physicians to improve the quality and outcomes of care to children. A recent example is NemoursLink, a program allowing community primary care practitioners to access Nemours’ Electronic Medical Records via the Internet. All three Florida markets implemented the new system in 2006 integrating primary physicians, families and specialty care of children for improved quality and satisfaction.