Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware

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Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware
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Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware as seen from Nemours Mansion and Gardens.
Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware
Geography
Location Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Organization
Funding Non-profit hospital
Type Specialty - Pediatrics
Affiliated university Thomas Jefferson University
University of Delaware
Patron The Nemours Foundation
Services
Emergency department Level 1 Pediatric Emergency Department
Beds195
History
Opened1940
Links
Website www.nemours.org

Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware is a pediatric hospital located in Wilmington, Delaware. [1] It is operated by the Nemours Foundation, a non-profit organization created through the last will and testament of philanthropist Alfred I. du Pont by his widow Jessie Ball duPont in 1936, and dedicated to improving children's health. [2] Historically, it was referred to as the A. I. duPont Institute for Crippled Children or more simply, the duPont Institute and provides pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults up to age 21. [3] [4]

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Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware, was the first freestanding children's hospital that is part of Nemours Children's Health, the nation's largest multi-state, multi-location pediatric health system. [5] The hospital has achieved Magnet status multiple times and has several specialties consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Top Children's Hospital awards. [6] Other recognition for Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware, includes recognition as an American College of Surgeons Children's Surgery Verified Hospital. [7]

History

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Main entrance of the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children

With the words, “It has been my firm conviction throughout life that it is the duty of everyone in the world to do what is within his power to alleviate human suffering,” Alfred I. du Pont bestowed an estate valued at $40 million for the creation of a charitable corporation devoted primarily to providing health care services to children. The resulting Nemours Foundation was charged with the preservation and public enjoyment of the Nemours Estate in Wilmington, the care and treatment of disabled children and the care of low-income seniors throughout the state of Delaware. Nemours has grown to be one of the nation's largest children's health systems, caring for more than a quarter of a million children each year. The hospital is part of the duPont legacy.

Through his last will and testament, Alfred I. duPont established a trust composed of his holdings in E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company which provided for the formation of The Nemours Foundation, named for the duPont family's home in France. [8] [9] The Nemours Foundation was incorporated in Florida in 1936. In 1940, the original Alfred I. duPont Institute opened in Wilmington, and it quickly became world-renowned for its clinical and research excellence in pediatric orthopedics field. It was not until 1976 that the Nemours Board of Directors expanded the institute's mission to encompass more pediatric diseases. The first phase of the new Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware was completed in 1979. Outpatient and ambulatory care was provided at the adjacent Nemours Children's Clinic. The current hospital was completed in 1984. It was named one of the nation's best children's hospitals by Parents Magazine in 2009. [10] The institute is academically affiliated with both the University of Delaware in Newark and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, and the residency program is handled through Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

The Nemours Foundation is the sole beneficiary of the A.I. duPont Testamentary Trust, valued at $3.4 billion in 2009. [11] The trusts supporting the Nemours Foundation (the A.I. duPont Testamentary Trust and the Edward Ball Trust) were valued at a combined $5.5 billion in 2015. [12]

On May 12, 2021, the hospital announced that its name will be changed to "Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware", in the summer of 2021. [13]

Facilities

The medical campus is located directly east of the DuPont Experimental Station and the site also houses the Nemours Estate. The facility provides Delaware's only Pediatric Trauma Center, advanced inpatient and outpatient pediatric care in more than 30 specialties, intensive and acute pediatric care, as well as pediatric research. [14] The Ronald McDonald House of Delaware adjacent to the hospital provides sleep rooms and showers for the parents and families of children receiving treatment.

Nemours Biomedical Research occupies the E400 building in the DuPont Experimental Station. [15]

In 2011, the Nemours Foundation announced a $212 million expansion that would increase the size of the Emergency Department and number of inpatient beds. [16] [17] The construction was completed in 2014 and the doors opened to patients in October 2014. [18] [19]

In 2022, Nemours began a $40 million expansion in southeastern Pennsylvania in which the health system will open three new specialty care sites by the winter of 2024. [20]

In May 2023, Nemours opened a specialized pediatric medical office in Broomall, Pennsylvania that includes doctors who are experts in more than 15 medical and surgical specialties. [21] [22]

Specialties

The hospital offers intensive and acute inpatient and outpatient services in more than 30 disciplines. [23] It is internationally recognized in blood and bone marrow transplantation, acondroplasia, cancer, cardiology and cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedics, and solid organ transplantation. [24]

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