About Us

Affiliated with Baptist Health

Wolfson Children's Hospital is a part of Baptist Health, the region's most comprehensive healthcare provider. Baptist Health's circle of care includes five nationally accredited hospitals and more than 70 primary care and specialty offices, as well as home health, rehabilitation and urgent care.

Since 1955

With the aid of an initial $500,000 donation from the Wolfson Family Foundation, the hospital opened in 1955 as a place for all children to be admitted and treated without regard to creed, religion, race or financial position. That original mission remains today.

Education

• Main teaching facility for the Pediatric Residency Training Program of the University of Florida (UF) College of Medicine, Jacksonville
• Serves as site of pediatric training for multiple Mayo College of Medicine Jacksonville physicians
• Training tomorrow's pediatric doctors, nurses, chaplains, pharmacists and other allied health professionals

Research

• Dedicated Clinical Research Center for investigator-initiated and multi-center studies
• Evidence-based best practices to improve care/outcomes

Nationally Recognized, Regional Leader in Pediatrics

• Recognized among America’s Best Children’s Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report year after year
• Awarded Magnet™ designation for excellence in patient care, Asthma-Friendly Hospital designation by the Florida Asthma Coalition, and the AACN Silver Award for Excellence™ in pediatric cardiovascular intensive care; Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Award for ECMO excellence
• Nationally accredited Echocardiography; Cancer; Blood and Marrow Transplant; Epilepsy; Cleft and Craniofacial Disorders; and ECMO programs

Centers of Distinction

• Behavioral Health Center
• C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Heart Institute
• Cancer Institute
• Diabetes & Endocrinology Institute
• Gastroenterology Center
• Porter Family Children's Trauma Center
• Snyder Family Cleft and Craniofacial Center
• Walter and Michelle Stys Neuroscience Institute

Wolfson Children's Hospital also provides critically needed services and technology to better serve the children in our region, including:

• Blood and Marrow Transplantation
• Bower Lyman Center for Medically Complex Children
• Cardiovascular and Surgery ICU
• Dedicated Neurosurgical Suite
• Emergency Centers
• Hybrid Neurovascular and Cardiovascular Surgery Suite
• Intraoperative MRI and CT
• Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
• Orthopedic Surgery

Community Benefit

• Largest provider of charitable care to children in Jacksonville
• $31.2 million in uncompensated and charity care
• An additional $7.7 million invested in programs to improve child health

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