Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital

Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital is a 226 bed free-standing children’s hospital in Hollywood,
Broward County, Florida located near Fort Lauderdale. The hospital is currently undergoing a 4-
story vertical expansion to double the number of floors and to continue to meet its commitment to
providing the highest quality and safest care for children in the region. This expansion is
scheduled to open the Fall of 2022 and includes a new 20-bed CVICU and Cardiac Step-Down
Unit as well as state-of-the-art ORs with hybrid and exit angiography capabilities and three cath
labs.

Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital is one of six hospitals that are part of Memorial Healthcare
System, the third largest public health system in the country. Memorial delivers nearly 14,000
babies per year in three hospitals and has 132 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) beds – both
Level II and III services (the state of Florida does not yet have a separate designation for Level IV
care).

Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital (JDCH) has robust high-risk and congenital programs including
a US News and World Report ranked pediatric Cardiology and Heart Surgery Program, one of
only two active programs in the state that does heart transplants. JDCH’s Orthopedic and Sports
Medicine program is also ranked by US News and World Report as number one in Florida and is
one of the largest programs in the southeastern United States. JDCH also has robust
Neurosciences, Hematology/Oncology and other specialized surgical programs (approximately
10,000 surgeries per year), and the area’s largest pediatric and neonatal transport team, which
also does mobile ECMO.

JDCH serves over 375,000 children per year from around the state. Approximately 100,000
children are cared for in our three emergency rooms across the county per year. JDCH’s services
continue to grow with the opening of the new specialty center/ambulatory surgery center in Palm
Beach County in 2018 and a new ambulatory pavilion in Miramar, near Miami-Dade County which
will open in 2022.

JDCH offers resources for academic pursuits, spanning from clinical research to basic science
investigation via affiliations with nearby universities and through its Pediatric Institute for
Discovery and Innovation (PIDI). JDCH has an established pediatric residency program and deep
relationships with other hospital providers and universities.

JDCH combines leading-edge clinical excellence with a child- and family-friendly environment
that emphasizes the Power of Play. JDCH offers a comprehensive range of healthcare services –
delivered with kindness, dedication and compassion.