Holidays are a busy travel time for families. There’s a lot of excitement about visiting relatives or traveling to new destinations. But sick kids can put a damper on travel. “Some of the top challenges that kids face during the holiday season can include respiratory illnesses, gastrointestinal infections, sleep disruptions, dietary imbalance and travel fatigue,” says Robert Snyder, MD, Chief of Florida Primary Care for Nemours Children’s Health. Dr. Snyder gives tips for keeping kids healthy so parents—and the whole family—can enjoy traveling during the holiday season.

In this episode, Dr. Peggy Greco of Nemours Children’s Health and Rachel Hamilton of NRC Health, discuss how their organizations use equity centered data, communication tools, and patient voice to close experience gaps and improve outcomes for children and families.

In November, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Health stated that it has cared for more than 120 children with complex medical conditions at home through its Advanced Care at Home program. The health system says it is the nation’s first at-home acute care model run by a freestanding children’s hospital.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Health has named Terry Haley, as its next executive vice president and chief marketing and communications officer.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Health has launched its Advanced Care at Home program, which has cared for more than 120 children with complex medical conditions through a first-of-its-kind home-based care model.

Caswell Samms III. Executive Vice President and CFO of Nemours Children’s Health (Jacksonville, Fla.): At Nemours Children’s Health, one of the most valuable innovations came from reimagining how we use what we already have. By building digital care pathways within our existing Epic platform, we standardized care for common conditions like asthma and diabetes, improving outcomes and reducing unnecessary variation, like emergency department utilization, without major new spending. It’s a great example of frontline collaboration, using data and workflow redesign to create real value for patients, our associates and the organization.

“We saw a really bad season last year, and I worry that this season could be even worse,” said Jonathan Miller, associate chief of primary care at Nemours Children’s Health and president of the Delaware chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

Since June, Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Health has cared for more than 120 children with complex medical conditions at home through a first-of-a-kind program. The Advanced Care at Home program is designed for children who are medically stable but require ongoing advanced care. It is the nation’s first at-home care model operated by a freestanding children’s hospital, according to a Nov. 10 news release from Nemours.

Colleen Schimpf, MSN, RN, CPNP-BC, a Certified Infant/Toddler Sleep Consultant at Nemours Children's Health, urges parents to fact-check the information they see online to make sure it’s safe and accurate—and take everything you see or hear on social media with a grain of salt.

Nemours Children’s Health is a leader in pediatric musculoskeletal care, offering comprehensive treatment for children with the most complex orthopedic, spine and neuromuscular conditions.

Indeed, a "velcro kid" is basically a child who has difficulty separating from a parent or caregiver, according to Danika Perry, PsyD, a pediatric psychologist at Nemours Children’s Health.

It’s important to remember that clingy behavior is developmentally appropriate and a sign of a child’s secure attachment among the infant, toddler, and preschool set, according to Dr. Perry.

Nemours Children’s Health, Jacksonville (Fla.) named Stacy White, Jr., MD, division chief or interventional radiology. Dr. White will strengthen collaboration between specialties, expand inpatient consultation services and streamline workflows to improve access to interventional radiology services, according to an Oct. 24 system news release shared with Becker’s. He will also work to expand regional operations.

Ashley Anttila, MD, a pediatrician at Nemours Children’s Health, Delaware.

The newly joined health systems are, according to an Oct. 20 news release: Endeavor Health (Evanston, Ill.), Henry Ford Health (Detroit), Nemours Children’s Health (Jacksonville, Fla.), Northwestern Medicine (Chicago), Rush University System for Health (Chicago).

Pediatrics hospitals: Scottish Rite for Children (Dallas), Children’s Hospital of Alabama (Birmingham), Nemours Children’s Health System (Jacksonville, Fla.).

Caswell Samms III, CFO of Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Health, also emphasized service line growth with a pediatric focus. Over the next two to three years, the health system will expand capacity through various strategic initiatives in Florida and the Delaware Valley. “This includes targeted investments in high-acuity pediatric specialty programs such as orthopedics, cardiology, maternal–fetal medicine, neonatology and oncology,” Mr. Samms said. “We are also advancing innovation in value-based care through the global budget model in Delaware. By continuing to operate as a unified health system, Nemours will strengthen brand recognition and foster strategic partnerships — ensuring we deliver the highest quality pediatric care across all our service areas.”

Wesley was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia — a rare form of blood cancer that attacks the bone marrow — last year, in the final week of the season. Wesley completed his treatment this summer at Nemours Children's Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., and is now in complete remission. In September, Hines-Allen and the rest of his family got to join Wesley in ringing the bell at Nemours, signaling the successful end of his treatment. Despite the Jaguars losing to the Seahawks on Sunday, it gave Hines-Allen a special moment with his son after a difficult year of treatment.

“Just want to say thank you to the doctors and nurses from the bottom of our hearts for saving our son's life. Thank you so much,” said of the doctors at Nemours.

In this Healio video perspective, Carly Levy, MD, FAAP, FAAHPM, shares her advice for physicians to cope with tough days at work. “Something that I do personally is reframe,” the director of the hospice and palliative medicine fellowship at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Delaware said. “It’s reframing what I just witnessed and thinking about what I actually contributed vs. what I don’t have control over.”

AI chatbots are increasingly citing health system websites in their answers to healthcare-related questions. But which organizations show up the most in these AI-generated responses? 28. Nemours Children’s Health (Jacksonville, Fla.)

Nemours Children’s Health — a pediatric hospital network with locations in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida — was one of the health systems that delayed its Covid vaccine rollout until the CDC recommendation came out. Dr. Matthew Davis, Nemours’ enterprise physician-in-chief, said the network should receive doses soon.

In this Healio video perspective, Kirk Reichard, MD, MBA, FACS, FAAP, explains what pediatricians should know about weight loss surgery for treating children with obesity. “I think it’s a relatively new topic for many people,” said Reichard, director of metabolic and bariatric surgery at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware.

Chad Neilsen, director of infection prevention and control at Nemours Children’s Health in Florida.