Nemours KidsHealth.org Named Best Family/Parenting Website for the 12th Annual Webby Awards

Nemours Enterprise
Thursday, May 08, 2008 @ 05:11 PM EDT
by: Karen Breakell Phone: (407) 650-7671 email: kbreakell@nemours.org

Nemours’ KidsHealth®Wins Webby and People’s Voice Award, Topping the Shortlist for International Honor for the Web

FL, May 7, 2008: The 12th Annual Webby Awards has named KidsHealth.org a double Webby Award winner as Best Family/Parenting Site of 2008 and the Webby’s 2008 People’s Voice Award in the same category.

KidsHealth.org, the most-visited website devoted to children’s health and parenting, is created by the physician-directed, professional editorial staff of the Nemours Center for Children’s Health Media – unique in the nation with its exclusive focus on children’s health media. The 2008 Webby Awards mark KidsHealth’s third and fourth Webby Awards since 2004.

Hailed as “the Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, the Webby Awards are the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile websites. The Webby Awards are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-person judging academy whose members include Internet co-inventor Vinton Cerf, R/GA’s Chief Bob Greenberg, “The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening, Arianna Huffington, and Harvey Weinstein.

“It is a great honor for Nemours to receive both the Webby and the People’s Voice Award for the Family/Parenting category,” says Neil Izenberg, MD, editor-in-chief and founder of Nemours’ KidsHealth. “Nemours is a unique organization that not only provides great health care directly to children and families, but also creates some of the world’s best online health information tailored to the needs of parents, kids, and teens. We want to help families to take care of themselves, too. That’s an important part of our mission.”

Nemours clinicians help to create and medically review the award-winning KidsHealth content. They are recognized as experts around the world – but more important, kids can call them their own.

The 12th Annual Webby Awards received a record 9,500 entries from more than 60 countries and all 50 states. KidsHealth joins other prominent 2008 winners from across the globe, including NYTimes.com, Apple, Wired.com, Flickr, and many others. A full list of Webby Awards and People’s Voice Awards winners can be found at: http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=12

About Nemours’ KidsHealth®

KidsHealth creates engaging online, print, and video media about a wide range of health and family issues. KidsHealth has a physician-directed, professional editorial staff  and is the largest resource of online children’s health, behavioral, and developmental information written for three distinct audiences: parents, kids, and teens. KidsHealth content is also available in Spanish. Each year, over 140 million families turn to KidsHealth.org for expert answers, making it the Web’s most-accessed site on children’s health. Recent accolades include the 2008 Webby Award for Best Family/Parenting Website and the Webby’s 2008 People’s Voice Award for the same. In recent years, KidsHealth was previously honored as the Webby’s Best Family/Parenting Website and Best Health Website, and was selected as one of the 30 Best Websites by U.S. News & World Report and one of the 50 Coolest Websites by TIME magazine. KidsHealth also creates KidsHealth in the Classroom, a free website for educators featuring standards-based health curricula, activities, handouts, and more. KidsHealth comes from The Nemours Foundation, one of the largest nonprofit organizations devoted to children’s health. For more information about KidsHealth, please visit KidsHealth.org.

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About Nemours

Nemours, one of the nation’s largest pediatric health systems, is dedicated to achieving higher standards in children’s health. Nemours offers an integrated spectrum of clinical treatment coupled with research, advocacy, and educational health and prevention services extending to all families in the communities it serves. Starting with Alfred I. duPont’s bequest over seventy years ago, Nemours has grown into a multi-dimensional organization offering personalized clinical and preventive care focused on children.

Nemours owns and operates the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware and major children’s specialty clinics in Delaware (Wilmington), Florida (Jacksonville, Orlando and Pensacola), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr) and New Jersey (Atlantic City and Voorhees). Having recently received preliminary approval from the State of Florida, Nemours will establish a new full-service children’s hospital as part of an integrated pediatric health campus in Orlando. KidsHealth.org, the world’s most visited pediatric health care Web site for parents, kids and teens, is a project of Nemours.

Nemours employs over 4,400 individuals, including 430 pediatric physicians, specialists and surgeons who cared for approximately a quarter of a million children in 2007. The organization’s goal is to align with parents, physicians, community leaders, children’s advocates and elected officials to ensure optimal wellness for every child. Additional information about Nemours can be found at www.nemours.org.