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| The '''Nemours Foundation''' is a ] created by philanthropist ] in ], devoted to improving the health of children. | The '''Nemours Foundation''' is a ] created by philanthropist ] in ], devoted to improving the health of children. | ||
| Nemours employs 4,100 professionals, including more than 420 specialty and subspecialty physicians and surgeons. One of the nation’s largest health systems dedicated to the health of children, Nemours cared for 239,000 individuals in 2006 during more than 560,000 outpatient visits, 11,000 hospital admissions to our own Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children (AIDHC) as well as an estimated 25,000 to affiliates; and 47,000 surgical procedures. | |||
| The Nemours organization owns and operates the AIDHC as well as the Nemours Children’s Clinic, a single group practice with multiple locations in Wilmington and the Delaware Valley as well as Jacksonville, Orlando and Pensacola, Florida. Supported by a single electronic medical information system, physicians across subspecialties are able to provide or advise on care for a patient anywhere in the system. Further distinguishing the comprehensive span of care, Nemours provides health education through KidsHealth (the world’s most lauded and visited web site dedicated to the health of children), research and professional education leavening the standard of care, prevention through Nemours Health and Prevention Services and adjunct programs dealing with detection and intervention such as Nemours BrightStart! Dyslexia Initiative. | |||
| ==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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The Nemours Foundation is a non-profit organization created by philanthropist Alfred I. du Pont in 1936, devoted to improving the health of children.
Nemours employs 4,100 professionals, including more than 420 specialty and subspecialty physicians and surgeons. One of the nation’s largest health systems dedicated to the health of children, Nemours cared for 239,000 individuals in 2006 during more than 560,000 outpatient visits, 11,000 hospital admissions to our own Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children (AIDHC) as well as an estimated 25,000 to affiliates; and 47,000 surgical procedures.
The Nemours organization owns and operates the AIDHC as well as the Nemours Children’s Clinic, a single group practice with multiple locations in Wilmington and the Delaware Valley as well as Jacksonville, Orlando and Pensacola, Florida. Supported by a single electronic medical information system, physicians across subspecialties are able to provide or advise on care for a patient anywhere in the system. Further distinguishing the comprehensive span of care, Nemours provides health education through KidsHealth (the world’s most lauded and visited web site dedicated to the health of children), research and professional education leavening the standard of care, prevention through Nemours Health and Prevention Services and adjunct programs dealing with detection and intervention such as Nemours BrightStart! Dyslexia Initiative.