The Halifax Health - Betty Jane France Center for Pediatrics: Speediatrics

Location: The entire sixth floor of Halifax Health Medical Center

Services:

• The 36-bed unit includes general pediatric care and a 5-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), the first and only intensive care unit for children in East Central Florida.
• Highly experienced pediatric intensivists, physicians whose specialty is pediatric intensive care, are supported by a team of skilled pediatric intensive care nurses.
• Betty Jane France Pediatric Resource Library consisting of a computer/printer linked to many of the world's medical databases and access to top pediatric medical books and publications.
• Laptop computers are also available to patients for use in their rooms that will not only tie into medical information databases, but also gives the patient access to the Internet and e-mail to communicate with their schools, families and friends.

Facts:

• Annually, Speediatrics cares for more than 2,000 children with another 400 or more receiving critical care in the PICU.
• Speediatrics care extends to a special Pediatrics fast track unit in the Emergency Department at Halifax Health Medical Center, one of the busiest in Florida. Here, more than 20,000 children annually receive care in the special Speediatrics emergency unit.
• The Speediatrics theme also extends into the community in the Halifax Health - Keech Center, a family community clinic where children have become an extended family for Drs. Andrea Thorpe and Adela Caidic and staff.