Nicklaus Children's Hospital Recognized as a Gold Level Center for Excellence in Life Support
Publicado en: 29/07/2020
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital has been recognized as a recipient of the Gold Level ELSO Award for Excellence in Life Support from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization. The award highlights those programs that have distinguished themselves by having processes and procedures that promote excellence and exceptional care in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Extracorporeal Life Support Services are provided through the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Nicklaus Children’s, the leading pediatric care facility in South Florida.
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital was selected as a Center of Excellence for demonstrating extraordinary achievement in the following three categories:
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Excellence in promoting the mission, activities, and vision of ELSO;
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Excellence in patient care by using the highest quality measures, processes, and structures based upon evidence; and
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Excellence in training, education, collaboration, and communication supporting ELSO guidelines that contributes to a healing environment for families, patients and staff.
“Gold Level recognition is testament to the dedication of the Nicklaus Children’s PICU clinical team and their commitment to providing the highest quality life-saving intervention for the region’s most critically ill infants and children,” said Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Chief Nursing Officer Shannon Odell, MSN, BSN, RNC-OB, NE-BC.
The ELSO Award signifies a commitment to exceptional patient care. It also demonstrates an assurance of high quality standards, specialized equipment and supplies, defined patient protocols, and advanced education of all staff members.
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Durante los últimos 75 años, Nicklaus Children's ha sido un faro de esperanza para los niños y las familias en todo el estado de Florida y más allá. Nicklaus Children's Hospital es el #1 independiente, sin fines de lucro y con licencia especializada del sur de Florida exclusivamente para niños y atiende a cerca del 70 por ciento de los niños de la comunidad metropolitana de Miami. En adición, Nicklaus Children's ofrece atención dentro del Hospital NCH North en Naples, la Unidad Pediátrica De George del Jupiter Medical Center y unidades de emergencia pediátricas seleccionadas de Baptist Health South Florida. El hospital y su red de más de 35 centros de atención ambulatoria ofrecen atención vital en los condados de Miami-Dade, Broward, Martin y Palm Beach. Estos centros incluyen una variedad de servicios de urgencias, atención primaria pediátrica y centros de subespecialidades, y son basado en hospitales o centros ambulatorios de Nicklaus Children's Pediatric Specialists, LLC (NCPS). Nicklaus Children's es una filial académica y clínica de Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine y ofrece una fuente de futuros médicos e investigación innovadora. Nicklaus Children's alberga centros de excelencia, como el Helen & Jacob Shaham Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute, el Nicklaus Children's Orthopedic, Sports Medicine and Spine Institute, Nicklaus Children's Neuroscience Institute y el Nicklaus Children's Heart Institute. El hospital con 325 camas es reconocido por su excelencia en todos los aspectos de la medicina pediátrica, y muchos de sus programas han sido clasificados regularmente entre los mejores del país por U.S. News & World Report desde 2008. Nicklaus Children's también cuenta con una filial de práctica médica sin fines de lucro con más de 40 especialidades y un centro de cirugía ambulatoria.
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