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Nov 20, 2020Focus will be on enrolling more young adult patientsWilmington, Del. (November 19, 2020) -- Clinical trials are a vital part of the research process, and for many kids with cancer, they are their best hope for a cure. To give more patients access...
Nov 20, 2020Orlando, Fla. (Nov. 20, 2020) – Heart of Florida United Way has recognized two of the Infectious Disease specialists at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Dr. Kenneth Alexander and Dr. Adriana...
Nov 19, 2020Program Aims to Ease the Hospital Experience for Patients and FamiliesOrlando, Fla. (November 19, 2020) – Nemours Children’s Hospital announces the launch of Disney Children’s Hospitals Program to further engage and ease moments of anxiety and stress for young...
- Nov 19, 2020Health, Education, Child and Youth Development, and Nutrition Leaders Urge Incoming Biden Administration to Prioritize Office on Children and Youth
WASHINGTON (November 19, 2020) – More than 350 leaders and organizations across the United States have joined forces to call on President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris to establish...
Nov 17, 2020Wolfson Children’s Hospital of Jacksonville partners with Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare and Nemours Children’s Specialty Care to expand pediatric specialty services in the greater Big Bend RegionTallahassee, Florida, November 17, 2020 – As part of a continued effort to offer outstanding, accessible outpatient pediatric specialty services in a convenient setting for children and families...
- Nov 11, 2020Liver lymphatic system connection with chest opens treatment options for certain plastic bronchitis cases.
WILMINGTON, Del. (November 11, 2020) – Interventional radiologists with Nemours Children’s Health System have identified a new source of abnormal lymphatic flow between the liver and the lungs...
Nov 5, 2020Jacksonville, Fla. (Nov. 5, 2020) – The Daily’s Foundation recent two-day golf tournament and dinner raised $350,000 for Nemours Children’s Health System,. These funds will go toward...
Oct 29, 2020Jacksonville, Fla. (October 29, 2020) – Nemours Children’s Specialty Care Jacksonville Chair of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at Wolfson Children’s Hospital, Robert W....
- Oct 28, 2020
Orlando, FL – October 28, 2020 - Nemours Children’s Primary Care in Central Florida has been awarded accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC). “This...
- Oct 15, 2020Findings Suggest Precision Medicine Could Improve Treatment for Children with Eosinophilic Esophagitis
ORLANDO, Fla. (October 15, 2020) – A group of three gene variants, commonly inherited together, may provide clues to more successful treatment of pediatric eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a...
- Oct 15, 2020ActX platform unites pharmacogenomic and clinical information to optimize drug effectiveness
Wilmington, DE (October 15, 2020) -- Nemours Children’s Health System has added the ActX Genomic Decision Support system to its electronic health record (Epic), enabling the use of genetic...
Oct 9, 2020Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children partners with Forever Media for annual Radiothon.Wilmington, DE – On October 7 & 8, 2020, the Help Our Kids Radiothon marked its 10th year. This year looked very different, going virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the goals and outcome...
- Oct 1, 2020Nemours Actively Supports Federal Legislation to Reduce Medicaid Barriers to Telehealth for ChildrenTIKES Act of 2020 would support increasing telehealth use among children and families
Sep 25, 2020Clinic scheduled to begin next yearJacksonville, Fla. (Sept. 25, 2020) -- Six health practitioners with the Nemours Children’s Specialty Clinic ADAPT program, a partnership between University of North Florida and Nemours, were...
- Sep 21, 2020Measles Immunization Program Recognized
Orlando, Fla (Sept 21, 2020) – Nemours Children’s Primary Care in Central Florida has been honored by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Inc (AAAHC), the leader in...
Sep 17, 2020Grant will provide pediatric telehealth equipment for Nemours Patients in Southern Delaware.Milford, DE - Nemours Children’s Health and an anonymous donor are calling on the community to help fill a vital need for pediatric care in Southern Delaware. Later this year, Nemours will open...
- Sep 17, 2020New affiliation brings together the best in pediatric urgent care.
Wilmington, DE – Nemours Children’s Health is pleased to name PM Pediatrics as its preferred urgent care partner to complement their existing urgent care and on demand options. PM Pediatrics,...
Sep 17, 2020"Contagious” stresses that compassion, trust, and courage can also be transmissibleJacksonville, Fla. (September 17, 2020) In a bold new multi-media advertising campaign called Contagious, Nemours Children’s Health System brings a strongly positive perspective to a fearsome...
Sep 9, 2020Finding of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children associated with COVID-19 helped create new clinical pathway guidelines to quickly identify and treat casesWILMINGTON, De. (September 9, 2020) – At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in April, a 14-year-old boy was admitted to the emergency department at Nemours Children’s Health System in...
Sep 9, 2020Progress in Pediatric Cardiology Highlights Imaging Advances for Diagnosis and Treatment of Congenital Heart DiseaseJACKSONVILLE, Fla. (September 9, 2020) – The September issue of Progress in Pediatric Cardiology will exclusively feature articles by pediatric cardiologists at Nemours Children’s Health...
Sep 8, 2020Dr. Margaret Baldwin will treat children at Nemours Children’s Hospital and in LakelandOrlando, Fla (September 8, 2020) – Dr. Margaret Baldwin has joined Nemours Children’s Health System as a pediatric orthopedic surgeon. In her new role, she will see patients at Nemours Children’
- Aug 20, 2020Nemours Associates & Gulf Coast Kids House take immediate action to identify, report and stop abuse in order to save lives.
PENSACOLA, FL (Aug. 20, 2020)– Nemours Children’s Specialty Care, Pensacola has been providing health services to the children of the Panhandle for over 20 years and now they are helping kids...
Aug 17, 2020Orlando, Fla. (August 17, 2020) – The Nemours Children’s Health System’s Florida Prevention Initiative has been awarded The 2019 Golden Brick Award from The Downtown Orlando Partnership,...
Aug 11, 2020Dr. Rossi to see patients at Nemours Children’s Specialty Care in LakelandOrlando, FL (August 11, 2020) – Nemours Children’s Health System welcomes Gian Rossi, D.O, to the Division of Neurology. Dr. Rossi is among the pediatric specialists who will help families...
Aug 3, 2020For Family Advocacy Week, they will ask Congress to prioritize the use of telemedicineJacksonville, Fla. (August 3, 2020) – Nemours Children’s Health System, a multistate leader in the health of children with complex care cases, will participate in Family Advocacy Week, an...
Jul 31, 2020July 31, 2020 – After a highly competitive national search, Nemours Children’s Health System is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Mumford as Chief Executive of Delaware Valley...
Jul 27, 2020New White Paper Connects Investing in Children’s Health to the U.S. Economic FutureJACKSONVILLE, Fla. (July 17, 2020) – Improving workforce productivity and future economic growth in the U.S. requires addressing health-related productivity issues in childhood, when...
Jul 26, 2020Carissa M. Baker-Smith, MD, MS, MPH, has been appointed Director of Preventive Cardiology for the Nemours Cardiac Center at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children. In this role, Dr....
Jul 26, 2020Lauren Averill, MD, has been appointed Chair, Department of Medical Imaging at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children (N/AIDHC). Dr. Averill joined Nemours in 2007as a faculty radiologist....
- Jul 20, 2020Organization recognized for achieving strong health outcomes through telehealth.
Nemours Children’s Health System was awarded an Engagement Excellence Award from national telehealth leader Amwell®. This award recognizes organizations who have achieved strong consumer...
Jul 6, 2020Services available at four health center locations July 27-August 6July 06, 2020 (Orlando, FL) – Shepherd’s Hope and Nemours Children’s Health System will provide free back-to-school physicals for local uninsured and under-insured children at four...
- Jun 30, 2020
Jacksonville, Fla. (June 30, 2020) -- For pediatric liver tumor patients whose disease may be resistant to chemotherapy, there are few other therapeutic options available. A study published in the...
Jun 25, 2020ORLANDO, Fla. (June 25, 2020) – After late childhood and into adulthood, adolescents should be afforded a “Welcome to Adolescence” letter as a new rite of passage, say two Adolescent...
Jun 17, 2020Orlando, Florida – Nemours Children’s Hospital recently held a special ceremony to officially welcome the second group of recruited physicians in training for its three-year residency program....
Jun 16, 2020DHSS Secretary and Nemours Share Vision for Healthy FutureWilmington, DE -- Nemours Children’s Health System has announced the appointment of Kara Odom Walker, MD, MPH, MSHS, to serve as Senior Vice President and Chief Population Health Officer (CPHO),...
Jun 16, 2020Wilmington, DE - (June 16, 2020) - Nemours Children’s Health System, providing pediatric care at more than 80 sites in five states, is proud to once again be recognized among the nation’s...
May 31, 2020Wilmington, DE – A team led by Shunji Tomatsu, MD, PhD, principal research scientist with Nemours Biomedical Research, has been conducting early stage investigation on a gene therapy for Morquio...
Apr 30, 2020JACKSONVILLE, Fla., (April 30, 2020) – Nemours Children’s Health System announced today that James “Jim“ Digan has been named Enterprise Chief Development Officer. He will be responsible...
Apr 8, 2020Gina Ward Becomes Chair, Sharon Mills Higgins and John Wellons Named New MembersWilmington, DE – Nemours Children’s Health System, and Hugh Durden, Chairman of the Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust, today announced the election of Gina Ward as Chair of Nemours Delaware...
- Apr 6, 2020
The Nemours Children’s Health System has been designated by the Delaware Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) as one of two alternative care sites in Delaware to support the anticipated surge of...
Mar 31, 2020Pediatric Residency Program Addresses the Area’s Physician ShortageOrlando, Fla. (March 31,2020) – On Match Day, 12 students from medical schools around the nation learned that they will be spending the next chapter of their medical training at Nemours...
Mar 30, 2020WILMINGTON, Del. (March 30, 2020) –In response to our communities outpouring of support to help during the COVID-19 pandemic, Nemours Children’s Health System has set up the...
Mar 11, 2020Event was part of the activities in the Kids Zone presented by Nemours at THE PLAYERS ChampionshipPro golfer Phil Mickelson visited THE PLAYERS Championship Kids Zone presented by Nemours Children’s Health System to reunite with Rue, a childhood cancer survivor and family friend who is a...
Mar 11, 2020Your kids are hearing about coronavirus (COVID-19). You want to make sure they get reliable information — and you want them to hear it from you. In this video, pediatric psychologist Meghan...
Feb 27, 2020New White Paper Connects Investing in Children’s Health to the U.S. Economic FutureORLANDO (February 27, 2020) – The first white paper of a series authored by R. Lawrence Moss, MD, FACS, FAAP, president and CEO of Nemours Children’s Health System, calls attention to the...
Feb 26, 2020Nemours researchers identify genomic characteristics in leukemia to develop more precise treatmentsWILMINGTON, Del. (March 5, 2020) – Researchers with Nemours Children’s Health System utilized Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) to more precisely identify genomic characteristics of leukemias in...
Feb 21, 2020Accreditation body delivers excellent review of rehabilitation and therapy programsWilmington, DE — CARF International has announced its accreditation of Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children for a period of three years for its therapeutic and rehabilitation services....
Feb 13, 2020Interactive area will feature free health screenings and programs promoting healthy childrenJacksonville, Fla (Feb. 12, 2020) – Nemours Children’s Health System will continue to advance its mission of promoting health for children and teens with the launch of the Kids Zone, an...
Feb 10, 2020Nemours practitioners spend a Saturday learning about factors that influence the health of children in the communities we practice inOn Saturday, February 8, at Nemours Children's Hospital, approximately 150 clinicians from across the Nemours Children's Health System enterprise attended a daylong event for credit on...
Feb 5, 2020Panhadle Patient with Rare Chromosomal Disorder and Congenital Heart Defect Honored for Giving BackPensacola, Fla. (February 5, 2020) – Madison Baxley’s 10-year journey with Nemours was honored as she was awarded the first ever “Nemours Children’s Care Champion” due to her ongoing...
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