Gold Level Award for Flu-Season Vaccination Challenge

Published on: 03/14/2012
Miami Children's Hospital, formerly Miami Children's Hospital, has been recognized by the Joint Commission Resources and their Flu Vaccination Challenge Team as a Gold Level Award Recipient in their 2011-2012 Season Flu Vaccination Challenge. Over 2,000 organizations participated and were classified under one of three categories: Gold, Silver or Bronze.

The Gold Level certificate, their highest level recognition, is awarded to organizations who achieved a compliance rate of 95% or greater with influenza vaccination of their employees and staff.
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Nicklaus Children's Hospital is South Florida's #1 nonprofit, freestanding specialty licensed hospital exclusively for children. With more than 850 physicians, including over 500 pediatric subspecialists, the hospital and its network of outpatient centers and offices serve close to 70 percent of children in the Miami market. The only "where your child matters most™,” Nicklaus Children's is home to the region's most advanced Kenneth C. Griffin Surgical Tower, and its centers of excellence Helen & Jacob Shaham Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute, the Nicklaus Children’s Orthopedics, Sports Health and Spine Institute, Nicklaus Children’s Brain Institute and Nicklaus Children’s Heart Institute. The Nicklaus Children's Hospital's Transfer Center, Nick4Kids, and LifeFlight are responsible for transporting and saving close to 5,000 lives a year. Our 325-bed hospital, which is renowned for excellence in all aspects of pediatric medicine, has many specialty programs routinely ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report since 2008. Nicklaus Children's is also home to the largest pediatric teaching program in the southeastern United States and since 2003 has been designated an American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet facility, the nursing profession's most prestigious institutional honor. For more information, please visit www.nicklauschildrens.org.

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