Nicklaus Children’s Challenges Constitutionality of Recent Trauma Legislation
Published on: 5/14/2018
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital issued the following statement on the constitutional challenge of the recently passed trauma legislation:
The statement from Narendra Kini, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Nicklaus Children’s Health System, is as follows:
The hospital is challenging Section 395.4025(16)(c) of the recently passed trauma legislation as part of its commitment to fight for the children of Miami-Dade County. The hospital is specifically challenging the unconstitutional special law because it does not have statewide application and it exclusively targets one region – Miami-Dade County. This special law is devastating to the standard of care for the region’s children. Furthermore, this law will only fragment trauma care and decrease pediatric subspecialty expertise, as pediatric trauma centers afford children a better chance at survival. The challenge also comes on the grounds that Kendall Regional Medical Center did not complete the appropriate statutory requirements to receive a Level I trauma designation. Nicklaus Children’s Hospital will continue to fight for all children and their right to receive the highest level of pediatric care.
About Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Where Your Child Matters Most ™ (2025)
For 75 years, Nicklaus Children's has stood as a beacon of hope for children and families across the state of Florida and beyond. Nicklaus Children's Hospital is South Florida's #1 nonprofit, freestanding specialty licensed hospital exclusively for children serving close to 70 percent of children in the Miami metropolitan community. In addition, Nicklaus Children's offers care within NCH North Hospital in Naples, Jupiter Medical Center's De George Pediatric Unit and select Baptist Health Hospital pediatric emergency units. The hospital and its network of more of nearly 35 outpatient care locations offer lifesaving care in in Miami-Dade, Broward, Martin, and Palm Beach counties. These outpatient locations include an array of urgent care, pediatric primary care, and subspecialty care centers and are either hospital-based or outpatient locations under Nicklaus Children's Pediatric Specialists, LLC (NCPS). Providing a pipeline of future physicians and groundbreaking research, Nicklaus Children's is an academic and clinical affiliate of Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Nicklaus Children's is home to centers of excellence including the Helen & Jacob Shaham Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute, the Nicklaus Children's Orthopedic, Sports Medicine and Spine Institute, Nicklaus Children's Neuroscience Institute and Nicklaus Children's Heart Institute. The 325-bed hospital is renowned for excellence in all aspects of pediatric medicine, with many programs routinely ranked among the nation's best by U.S. News & World Report since 2008. Nicklaus Children's also includes a nonprofit physician practice subsidiary with over 40 specialties, and an ambulatory surgery center.
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