Parents Magazine Ranks Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Top 25 Nationally

Parents magazine ranked Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, located in Wilmington, Delaware, among the “Top 25 Best Children’s Hospitals” in its influential national survey. The results were announced in the February 2009 issue of Parents magazine (on newsstands nationwide as of January 13) as part of the magazine’s bi-annual survey to identify the nation’s “Best Children’s Hospitals.”

The Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children was ranked 24th overall, improving ten places from its 34th place ranking in 2007. Nemours is also using many best practices from this facility in the design work of its new Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando that will be breaking ground on February 25, 2009 and opening in 2012.

“This recognition underscores Nemours’ commitment to be recognized as a national and definitive leader in children’s health care based on patient satisfaction and quality and health outcomes in all the communities we serve,” says Tom Ferry, CEO of the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children and Nemours Senior Vice President for Hospital Operations. “Over the last several years the duPont Hospital has added significant new programs and services aimed at achieving these goals.”

For example:

• A new 14-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with large, all private rooms;
• Verified as a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons
  Minimally invasive operating rooms;
• Expanded Child Life services;
• Emergency Department efforts to reduce wait times and enhance service, including the opening of a new Fast Track area;
• A Family Resource Center with a Ronald McDonald Family Room including sleep rooms, showers and laundry facilities;
• “At Your Request” inpatient food service;
• Outpatient pharmacy;
• And a Safety Store that sells child and home safety products at cost.

Parents, which replaced Child magazine as the survey’s publisher, sent its comprehensive survey to 116 full members of the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI). More than 75 hospitals responded.

The 250-question survey asked the hospitals about their staff levels and qualifications, family-centeredness, survival rates, number of complex procedures performed, research studies, safeguards to prevent medical errors, and more.

Please visit the Parents magazine web site for more information: http://www.parents.com/baby/care/pediatricians-medicine/best-childrens-hospitals

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