Nemours Children's Hospital, Orlando
Little girl running with red streamers
Nighttime image of Nemours Children's Hospital
Hopsital room with nurse and patient using computer
African american family
Nurse caring for small infant

General Information: (407) 567-4000
For Appointments: (407) 650-7715
Admissions: (855) KID-ADMIT (543-2364)

Join Us On:

13535 Nemours Parkway, Orlando, FL 32827
(Hospital may not appear in GPS navigation)
View Map Online »
Download Printable Directions (PDF) »

Nemours Children's Hospital building

A Hospital Designed By Families, For Families

At Nemours Children’s Hospital, Orlando (NCH), in Lake Nona Medical City, families told us exactly how they would like care delivered — and it is their vision that makes this a hospital like no other.

On our 60-acre pediatric health campus, we offer family-centered specialty care, education, and state-of-the-art hospital services, so that from clinic to hospital to home, we are with you every step of the way.

We are the only children’s hospital in the region with true academic mission. This means that as our pediatric teams provide expert care for your child, they are actively working to bring the latest advances in research and treatment to all children.

Our hospital also provides Central Florida families with world-class pediatric specialties such as rheumatology, interventional radiology, and comprehensive physical and rehabilitation medicine.

Highlights of Our Care

 
Transformational Pediatric Medicine and Research
  • quaternary level care — the most innovative pediatric medicine possible with highly specialized medical and surgical services
  • state-of-the-art Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
  • full-service pediatric Emergency Department
  • advanced pediatric medical imaging focused on limiting radiation exposure while achieving the most accurate image possible
  • research collaboration to advance life-changing pediatric treatment and cures
  • unique partnerships in Lake Nona Medical City — including with University of Central Florida College of Medicine to help train tomorrow’s pediatric professionals
  • excellence in electronic medical record technology, ranked among the best in the country
 
Unique Amenities for Patients and Families
  • large private patient rooms with overnight accommodations for two parents, two televisions and smart technology, including our interactive GetWellNetwork
  • family lounges, playrooms, laundry facilities, and a community stage for live performances
  • free valet parking, concierge services, 24-hour family visiting hours, and much more
  • KidsTRACK — family-centered care services help families set multiple appointments, research medical information, find
    public resources, and even learn to cook healthy recipes in a
    teach-in kitchen
  • “Hospital within a garden” setting within a one-acre sensory
    discovery garden and spacious rooftop green space for healing respite and therapy

Learn more about our family-centered amenities »

Extending Our Care into the Community

We bring our expertise close to your home through our satellite clinics and new primary care network. To make your life more convenient, Nemours pediatric specialists see children at our satellite locations and partner health care systems.

 
Pediatric Partners and Specialty Clinics
Learn more about our specialty care locations:

Sharing Information With You
About Our Financial Performance and Outcome Data

Information about the Nemours Children's Hospital will be accessible at the Agency for Healthcare Administration's website once it is available.

Making an Appointment

When you call to make an appointment for a specialty care clinic or outpatient hospital service, we’ll first pre-register your child, collecting information such as:

  • your child’s name and address
  • your child's date of birth
  • parent phone numbers (home and cell)
  • primary care physician/referring physician contact information
  • pharmacy preference
Follow-Up Appointments

After your first appointment, you can schedule follow-up care using your online MyNemours account. Learn More »

You’re also welcome to sign in using our self-serve appointment registration kiosks located on every floor, making the entire process more convenient for you.


At Your Appointment

Please arrive 15 minutes before your appointment so we'll have plenty of time to register your child in our system.

 
What to Bring
Please be sure to bring the following items:
  • your photo ID
  • insurance and/or Medicaid cards
  • referral from your referring physician (if required by your insurance)
  • co-payment, if applicable
  • legal guardianship or custody papers if you are not the parent
If available, please provide:
  • preferred pharmacy contact information
  • names and dosages of all medications your child is taking (including over-the-counter medications)
  • name and number of your primary care physician
  • parent (and child’s) social security numbers
  • parent work information (address, telephone numbers)
  • immigration information (if your child was not born in the U.S.A.)
  • list of prior immunizations
 
Resources for Patients & Families
 
Specialty Care Clinic Appointments

Hours: Monday - Friday: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Phone: (407) 650-7715

At Nemours Children’s Hospital, our pediatric specialists take care of kids, from newborns to teens, who are referred to us by primary care family physicians, pediatricians, and other specialists. Outpatient specialty care clinics are located on floors 2 through 5.

See a Listing of Our Medical Services »

 
Same-Day Surgical Procedures

Location: 2nd Floor, Surgery Center
Phone: (407) 650-7715

For children who need same-day outpatient procedures, NCH offers the convenience of state-of-the-art surgical care right here at the hospital.

Learn More About Surgery at Nemours Children's Hospital »

 
Radiology (Medical Imaging)

Hours: 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location:Ground Floor
Phone: (407) 567-4238

NCH offers X-rays, CAT scans (Computed Axial Tomography), MRIs (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), and other state-of-the-art medical imaging tests for children of all ages, including unborn babies.

Learn More About Pediatric Radiology at Nemours Children’s Hospital »

Emergency Visits

Phone: (407) 567-4000
Address: 13535 Nemours Pkwy, Orlando, FL, 32827
Hospital may not appear in GPS navigation. Get Map & Directions »

Nemours Children’s Hospital’s (NCH) full-service, 16-bed Emergency Department offers unique, family-centered specialty care for your child when it matters most.

Everything from the size and layout of the patient exam rooms, to our rapid intake procedures, is designed to care for infants, children, and teens with urgent, emergent, and critical illness or injury.

Appropriate, Immediate Attention From the Start

At NCH, your child will immediately receive the most advanced pediatric emergency care delivered by highly-trained professionals experienced in treating children with a wide range of special conditions.

Our Emergency Department provides maximum care and comfort, such as:
  • immediate assessment by an experienced pediatric nurse
  • registration at bedside
  • private exam rooms with walls, not curtains
  • spacious rooms that accommodate patients and families
  • comprehensive onsite pediatric radiology services (X-rays, MRIs, CAT scans)
  • 24-hour access to pediatric specialists and surgeons
  • social workers who help families find resources, transport, and more
  • Child Life specialists who provide support, play, and coping strategies
  • children’s play space and family lounge

Learn More About Emergency Medicine at the Nemours Children’s Hospital »


Overnight Stays

Your child may be admitted to NCH in one of several ways:

  • Directly from the Emergency Department (ED) where admission paperwork happens at the bedside.
  • Directly from the physicians’ office through the Admissions Office.
  • Surgical admissions occur on the second floor Surgery Center.
Where Your Child Will Stay

Your child will stay in one of our large, comfortable, single-patient rooms located on the hospital’s second, third, or fourth floors. You’ll feel right at home in a family-friendly space with sleeping accommodations for two parents, a private bathroom, wireless internet access, connections for DVD players and game systems, and flat-screen TVs.

Second Floor: Surgical Patients

This is for children who are surgical inpatients or patients who are recovering from a surgical procedure.

Learn More About Surgery at Nemours Children’s Hospital »

Third Floor: Intensive Care Units

The second floor is home to our intensive care units (ICUs), where children receive continuous monitoring and one-on-one nursing care. Our ICUs include:

More Resources for Overnight Stays
Nemours Children's Hospital

Hospital & Local Amenities

Nemours Children’s Hospital was built by families, for families, which means our services and amenities were tested and approved by families like yours. We offer:

  • large private patient rooms with overnight accommodations for two parents, two TVs, and GetWellNetwork interactive television, uniquely based on your child's age, medical condition and more, so your child can watch TV, surf the web, play music and games, learn about your Nemours health care team — and even “paint” the room with a favorite light color
  • family lounges, play spaces, laundry facilities, and a community stage used for live performances
  • free parking (including ChargePoint EV charging stations) complimentary valet parking, 24-hour family visiting hours, and much more
  • KidsTRACK: family-centered care services to help families coordinate multiple appointments, research medical information, find public resources, and provides small group family learning sessions that focus on how to cook healthy recipes in a teach-in kitchen
  • service excellence team that provides complimentary concierge services to help patients and families find everything they need, including hotel information, transportation, attraction tickets, and more
  • “hospital within a garden” setting within a one-acre sensory discovery garden and spacious rooftop green spaces for healing, respite, and therapy
  • gift shop
  • cafeteria and café
  • on-site pharmacy

What We'll Offer Families

Our Family-Friendly Amenities and Service Excellence

While you’re here, take advantage of our many patient and family services and amenities to make your experience with us as comfortable as possible.

 
Concierge Services

Location: 1st Floor (inside the KidsTRACK lobby)
Hours: Monday - Friday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Saturdays: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Phone: (407) 567-3213 or in-hospital ext. 573213
Fax: (407) 567-3220
Email: conciergeNCH@nemours.org

If you need help finding your way around, just stop by our Concierge Desk located on the first floor. We can help connect you to non-medical services and information such as:

Hospitality Services
  • directions, maps, and traffic updates
  • travel planning and reservations
  • taxi service
  • restaurant recommendations and reservations
  • discounted tickets to local attractions
Personal Services
  • notary services
  • dry cleaning, alterations, and shoe repair
  • grocery delivery
  • salon, spa, and nail appointments
  • car repair, maintenance, and wash/detailing appointments
  • change for tolls
 
Where to Eat at the Hospital

We offer healthy and convenient places to eat a meal with your family or grab a snack to go. Major credit cards and debit cards are accepted.

Cafeteria

Location: 1st Floor (right of the greeter’s desk)

Daily: 7 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Breakfast: 7 - 9:30 a.m.
Lunch: 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Dinner: 4-7 p.m.

Come relax, refuel, and recharge at the hospital’s cafeteria where our executive chef prepares delicious and healthy meals, using organic, seasonal, and locally-sourced food whenever possible.

You’ll enjoy:

  • made-to-order (or make-your-own), hand-tossed salads from the fully stocked salad bars
  • variety of cuisine, including vegetarian and international choices
  • family dining concierge service (every day at lunchtime, our dining concierge assists patients, families, and anyone else who may need help with carrying trays, finding a seat, etc.)
  • table seating indoors and outdoors

And you might like to know that our cafeteria is an eco-friendly, sustainable operation that uses less non-recyclable styrofoam and utensils and composts food scraps to nurture our onsite gardens.

Outtakes Quick Cuisine

Location: 1st Floor (left of the greeter’s desk)

Hours: 6 p.m. - midnight

Outtakes Quick Cuisine offers gourmet coffee and sweet treats and snacks.

Vending Machines

You can find them near the Emergency Department on the ground floor.

 
Indoor/Outdoor Places to Play
Spaces for Children and Teens

We have many spaces inside the hospital where kids of all ages can enjoy time just being kids, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

  • Emergency Department (ED) Play Space is located on the ground floor for children of all ages visiting the ED
  • Teen Space is located on the third floor for adolescents ages 12 years and older
  • Play Space is located on the 4th floor (with expansion to the 5th floor) for children ages 12 and younger

Except for the ED, our hospital play spaces are staffed by trained Child Life specialists and volunteers. Please note that all patients, siblings, and guests under 12 must be accompanied by an adult while they play.

Discovery Garden

Located just outside of the cafeteria, our Discovery Garden features:

  • lushly planted lawn and gardens for peaceful respite and play
  • playful, interactive fountains
  • activities like xylophone benches, fragrant flowers, hedge maze, and percussion art
  • “show and tell” area for learning about our natural environment

If you can’t make it out to the hospital grounds, enjoy one of our rooftop garden spaces:

  • 2nd floor garden is located next to the surgical common area
  • 4th floor garden includes an obstacle course and a walking path

Learn more about our Child Life services »

 
Family Common Areas and Lounges

Each patient floor has a large open common space where family members can gather and spend time together.

We also have smaller, more intimate family lounges located on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors where you can enjoy quiet, television-free time to rest, read, and relax — just steps from your child’s patient room. Lounges are equipped with a refrigerator and complimentary coffee and tea.

 
Pharmacy
Scripts: Outpatient Pharmacy

Location: 1st Floor lobby (left of the greeter’s desk)
Hours: Monday - Friday: 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Closed Sundays

Phone: (407) 567-4799
Fax: (407) 567-4795

For your convenience, Nemours Children’s Hospital offers an onsite outpatient pharmacy where you can fill prescriptions and purchase over-the-counter medicines and supplies. We accept most insurance plans — just show your insurance card when you place a prescription order.

 
Branches Gift Shop

Location: 1st Floor (left of the greeter’s desk)

Hours: Monday-Friday: 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Closed Sundays

Our hospital’s Branches Gift Shop offers unique items for everyone on your list. Visit us for a great selection of snacks and gifts, including:

  • toys and stuffed animals
  • cards and balloons
  • household decor
  • magazines and kid-friendly activities
  • jewelry
 
Laptops & Internet Access
Laptops

Provided by KINfolk

Hours: Daily, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Phone: (407) 567-3213 or in-hospital ext. 573213
Email: conciergeNCH@nemours.org

Staying connected to friends and family is important during a hospital stay. If you don’t have your own laptop computer, you can feel free to borrow one while your child’s staying with us overnight – thanks to KINfolk, a non-profit organization that provides free laptops/internet access to hospitalized children across the country. Although we do lend computers to parents, we give priority to kid users.

You can also find KINfolk computers in many of our common spaces.

How to Reserve a Laptop

To reserve a laptop during your child’s hospital stay, simply ask your social worker, nurse, or concierge for more information. Parents also are welcome to call or email a laptop request.

Internet Access

In addition to laptops, NCH has computers with an internet connection in the KidsTRACK resource center, family common areas and lounges, and play spaces. We also provide free wireless access for your own personal electronic devices. Devices automatically connect to the internet through our network — simply accept the Nemours wireless network agreement.

 
Patient Relations

Hours: Monday - Friday: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Phone: (407) 567-3222 or in-hospital ext. 573222
Email: patientrelations2@nemours.org

Our service excellence team strives to make sure our patients and families are completely satisfied with our service. We want to know how we’re doing at every level of care, so we count on you to tell us what we’re doing well, and what we need to improve upon.

During your stay, look for one of our caring patient relations representatives who make regular visits to every floor, every day. Please feel free to call us anytime or, if you like, you can send us comments or suggestions by email or through our page on the GetWellNetwork, which is accessible through the interactive TV in your child’s room. We look forward to hearing from you.


In the Neighborhood

If you need to stay close to the hospital, we've collected a list of what's available to you in our nearby community.

Places to Stay

There are lots of places to stay in our area. Our concierge can help you make reservations if you’d like. Just call (407) 567-3213 or in-hospital ext. 573213, or email us at conciergeNCH@nemours.org.

 
Area Hotels

Hampton Inn & Suites Orlando Airport at Gateway Village
5460 Gateway Village Circle
Orlando, FL 32812
(407) 857-2830

Homewood Suites Orlando Airport
5424 Gateway Village Circle
Orlando, FL 32812
(407) 857-5791

Sheraton Suites Orlando Airport
7550 Augusta National Drive
Orlando, FL 32822
(407) 240-5555
Shuttle Available

Embassy Suites Orlando - Airport
5835 T.G. Lee Boulevard
Orlando, FL 32822
(407) 888-9339

Holiday Inn Orlando - International Airport
5750 T.G. Lee Boulevard
Orlando, FL 32822
(407) 851-6400
Shuttle Available

Hyatt Place Orlando Airport - Northwest
5435 Forbes Place
Orlando, FL 32812
(407) 816-7800

Courtyard by Marriott Orlando Airport
7155 North Frontage Road
Orlando, FL 32812
(407) 240-7200
Shuttle Available

Marriott Orlando Airport
7499 Augusta National Drive
Orlando, FL 32822
(407) 851-9000

Hyatt Regency Orlando International Airport
9300 Jeff Fuqua Boulevard
Orlando, FL 32827
(407) 825-1234

Renaissance Orlando Airport Hotel
5445 Forbes Place
Orlando, FL 32812
(407) 240-1000
Shuttle Available

Fun Things to Do & Places to Visit

If your child needs to stay with us for a while or you’ve traveled from outside the area to come see us, you’re probably wondering what else there is to do around.

 
Kid-Friendly Attractions

Orlando has a diverse list of attractions for your family – just contact our concierge for more information and discounted tickets. Call us at (407) 567-3213 or in-hospital ext. 573213, or email conciergeNCH@nemours.org.

Here’s just a sampling of what Orlando has to offer:

Walt Disney World

  • Magic Kingdom
  • Epcot Center
  • Animal Kingdom
  • Hollywood Studios

Universal Studios Orlando

  • Islands of Adventure

Seaworld

  • Aquatica
  • Discovery Cove

Kennedy Space Center

Nemours Children's Hospital

Today's Research, Tomorrow's Cures

Nemours Children’s Hospital (NCH) has welcomed an impressive list of world-class pediatric specialists who are as committed to researching new treatments and cures for childhood illness and disease, as they are to providing the very highest level of clinical care for children.

Having these doctor/researchers together in one place provides the opportunity for collaboration as they pursue their passion to find answers to questions like “How do we personalize medicine for children?” What is the latest treatment available?” “Is there a safer way to perform a procedure?”

The combined expertise of physicians and researchers across Nemours means that almost unmatched resources are available to bring the latest advances in science from the laboratory bench to the bedside, to share information, and to arrive at best practices in children’s health.

Also unprecedented, is our hospital’s unique setting in Lake Nona Medical City, one of the country’s emerging leaders in bioscience and research where scientific and medical advancements are made every day.

Support Services

We offer a variety of support services designed to help you and your child before, during, and after a visit with us.

Find Services »

Family-Centered Care

We’re committed to family-centered care. We include you in your child's care and appreciate that no one knows your child better than you.

Learn More »

Online Medical Records

View your child's medical records through our secure online portal, day or night.

» Sign In
» Learn More About MyNemours