At Florida Hospital, we’ve cared for children since 1908. Today, we continue this legacy of pediatric excellence through the Florida Children’s Hospital at Florida Hospital.

As a hospital within a hospital, we provide all the advantages of Central Florida’s most preferred health care system, but with a special healing environment designed just for children.

This unique combination of resources enables us to deliver a complete range of dedicated and specialized pediatric health services for our younger patients, while sharing other hospital services such as radiology, surgery and nutrition.

In the last year alone, Florida Hospital:

• delivered nearly 10,000 babies
• treated 65,000 kids in our Children's Emergency Center and 1,200 in our NICU
• helped 55,000 children during Urgent Care Visits
• performed 25,000 OP surgeries/procedures and 8,000 IP Discharges
• took care of over 55,000 youngsters in our CentraCare Walk-In Medical Centers
  

We are dedicated to meeting the very specific needs of children and to provide the newest technology and greatest care for our smallest patients.

Services at our Orlando campus include:

• A six-bed, 24-hour, seven-days-a-week pediatric emergency department
• A 45-bed pediatric inpatient unit for acutely ill children, including hematology/oncology patients
• Two beds designated and equipped for pediatric seizure monitoring
• Central Florida's only provider of four beds designated for pediatric bone marrow transplant patients
• A 13-bed pediatric ICU and 16-bed PCU for higher-level monitoring and treatment
• A 33-bed neonatal ICU Level III and 28-bed special care unit Level II for critical neonates
• Neonatal/pediatric transport teams that provide rapid response for the transfer of unstable neonates and pediatric patients into the ICUs
• A 10-bed pediatric outpatient medical and surgical unit ("Kids Stop") providing a wide range of diagnostics and treatments
• A comprehensive, family-centered pediatric/adolescent rehabilitation program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
• A team of Child Life Specialists whom provide psychosocial, emotional, and educational support to all pediatric patients within Florida Children's Hospital.
• "Kids' Docs", a 50 member pediatric sub-specialty association formed to provide comprehensive pediatric services
• A pediatric pharmacy under the direction of a pediatric PharmD
• Specifically trained neonatal and pediatric respiratory therapists
• The Florida Hospital laboratory, which provides support to all pediatric areas and has the capability to perform extensive microprocessing
• Over 400 pediatric trained nurses providing care to our children
• Pediatric-designated case management and social worker working on each inpatient unit