Wolfson Children’s specialty care to be staffed by Nemours physicians (Courtesy of the Jacksonville Business Journal) — A reinforced partnership between Wolfson Children’s Hospital and Nemours Children’s Health will soon bring specialized pediatric care to the Northeast Florida region.
Nemours physicians and advanced practice providers will deliver eight specialities at Wolfson, starting in March, plus one more later this year, the systems announced Wednesday afternoon.
“This means a stronger integration between clinic visits, hospitalization, surgeries and follow-up treatments,” said Wolfson President Allegra Jaros (pictured above). “It means multi-disciplinary teams working side by side. It means fewer gaps in care, and it means children can benefit from truly connected specialty care, right here.”
Specialties include: neonatology and newborn nursery services, intensive care units and Baptist Health’s labor and delivery units, critical care medicine in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, neurosurgery, infectious diseases, rheumatology, nephrology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and palliative care. Nemours will also offer genetics for Wolfson Children’s starting August 2026, according to a release.
The early 2026 delivery provider adjustments are the result of a joint operating agreement and expanded relationship between Wolfson and the health system, originally unveiled in June 2025.
At the time, the hospital unilaterally ended its decades-long partnership with UF Health to slot Nemours in its place.
“As locally headquartered organizations deeply invested in the well-being of children in North Florida and South Georgia, we share a vision for providing top quality, accessible specialty care,” Nemours North Florida President Aaron Carpenter said in a statement. “This expanded agreement brings together the strengths of two leading pediatric institutions to deliver comprehensive, coordinated care that improves outcomes for children with both routine and inpatient pediatric care.”
Wolfson Children’s is the only children’s hospital in Northeast Florida and serves as the pediatric referral center for the region, an area including South Georgia.
Aside from the partnership, the hospital was recently awarded a $7.5 million renewable state grant , part of an acceleration in pediatric cancer research across the state.
Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando was also awarded funding — a five-year initiative projected to direct as much as $37.5 million to each participating hospital, according to a release at the time.
“Our children deserve to be able to get the very best care right here at home,” Jaros said. “Wolfson Children’s Hospital is committed to meeting that goal — for the children who inspire us and the families that trust us.”