Baptist Health and Nicklaus Children's Health System are working together to ensure that the children in our community continue to receive the highest quality emergency care. The pediatric emergency physicians at Baptist Health Homestead Hospital are now part of Nicklaus Children's Pediatric Specialists, the medical group practice of Nicklaus Children's Health System. Our physicians will continue to provide the same high-quality, compassionate care you have come to expect.
Through this collaboration, they will also have access to the extensive array of pediatric subspecialists on Nicklaus' medical staff to support your child's specialized care needs. Pediatric patients treated in a Baptist Health emergency department and requiring hospital admission will be transferred to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital to receive ongoing care.
Zero Suicide Initiative
Nicklaus Children's has joined Zero Suicide, a quality improvement initiative that elevates system-wide
suicide prevention and care, with the goal of saving lives.
Through a grant provided by the Children's Hospital Association, Nicklaus Children's is implementing
Zero Suicide's proven prevention and care practices adapted within a continuous quality improvement model.
Goals include:
- Reducing suicide deaths
- Decreasing hospitalizations
- Enhancing quality and continuity of care
- Improving post-discharge follow-up visit attendance
- Improving screening rates
- Implementing system-wide care pathways
- Reducing inpatient psychiatric hospital readmissions
What Patients and Families Should Know
As part of this initiative, patients ages 8 and above in our Emergency Department, Urgent Care Centers
and inpatient units, are being screened for suicidal ideation. Parents and clinicians will be made aware when
children report such thought patterns. Additional follow through and recommendations will be made for as appropriate
to children's care needs.
If you have concerns that your child may be contemplating suicide, please call the Suicide and Crisis
Lifeline at 988.