Our Journey
Community Research Overview
In late June 2006, Nemours initiated a research study to obtain community input as to health care services for children in the tri-county area in response to several letters of “objection” to their plans to build a new facility. These findings are below.
- 93% favor a new children’s hospital being built in their community at no cost to tax payers
- 94% favor a new children’s hospital in Orlando that would provide a central location for all appointments, scheduling, and diagnostic and laboratory work usable by any doctor or nurse within that hospital’s system
- 95% support a hospital that would focus on subspecialty services for medically complex children given that the community hospitals already provide general pediatric services
- 54% have heard of Nemours Children’s Clinic
- 95% believe the population of Central Florida would support the addition of new pediatric subspecialty physicians who would be part of Nemours pediatric health care system
- 6. 95% would favor a new Nemours children’s hospital dedicated to specialty services for medically complex children given that the community hospitals already provide adult and general pediatric services
- 93% would favor a new children’s hospital in this market even with Arnold Palmer Hospital and Florida Hospital currently providing pediatric services
- 93% would support Nemours plans to build a new children’s hospital in Orlando
Interesting Notes:
Would you be in favor of or oppose a new children’s hospital being built in your community at no cost to tax payers?
- 90% Favor
- 5% Oppose
- 4% Refused
Given that the community hospitals provide adult and general pediatric services, would you favor or oppose a new Nemours children’s hospital dedicated to specialty services for medically complex children?
- 93% Favor
- 4% Oppose
- 1% Not aware of Nemours
- 2% Refused
Even with Arnold Palmer Hospital and Florida Hospital providing pediatric services, do you favor or oppose a new children’s hospital in this market?
- 89% Favor
- 6% Oppose
- 5% Refused
