Florida Hospital and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital Create Exclusive Affiliation to Deliver Higher Quality of Pediatric Care to Patients

Florida Hospital and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital are creating an exclusive affiliation to deliver high quality pediatric care, closer to home for patients in Hillsborough and Pasco counties. These two organizations share a common goal – to be leaders in children’s health and well-being through treatment, education and advocacy.

Together, Florida Hospital and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital are committed to creating more access to quality pediatric care for our community. That includes access points through Florida Hospital emergency rooms in Tampa Bay. Each of the Florida Hospital emergency rooms are staffed with board certified emergency room (ER) physicians. The ER’s have adopted clinical protocols from Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital evidence-based standards of care for pediatric emergency medicine. This includes Florida Hospital Tampa, Florida Hospital Carrollwood, Florida Hospital North Pinellas, Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel and Florida Hospital Zephyrhills.

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“We want to be able to treat sick kids without geography being a barrier. Today, in the evolving world of health care, that means expanding outside the walls of our main campus in St. Petersburg,” said Jonathan Ellen, M.D., President, CEO & Physician-in-Chief at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and Vice Dean and Professor of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “This new relationship with Florida Hospital Tampa fosters exactly that, as well as demonstrates to patients and families that there is a shared commitment between our two organizations to provide the highest quality of care.” Continue reading…