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Pediatric ER - Shands Hospital For
Children
The new Shands
Hospital for Children at the University of Florida Pediatric Emergency
Room will open in July.
How will we improve care for our kids?
A new entrance will welcome children
and their families with a fun and colorful look. Inside, a newly renovated
kid-friendly space will allow for more streamlined pediatric care. The
Pediatric ER will offer:
- 13 private treatment rooms and five observation
bays
- Two waiting rooms -- one for sick children and
one for well children
- Two exam rooms, specifically designed for
children with communicable diseases
- Nurse stations with the most technologically
advanced equipment specifically designed to treat children and young
adults
Why move our pediatric ER?
Our current pediatric emergency
services share space in the Shands Critical Care Center, which offers
emergency and trauma services. To enhance pediatric care and make better
use of existing resources, we are building the Pediatric ER at Shands at
UF, in the space where the former ER was located on the north campus.
This will allow us to consolidate pediatric care in the same building.
More than 12,000 pediatric emergency
patients were treated at Shands at UF Emergency Room in 2010.
By co-locating the UF and Shands
pediatric teams in a child-focused environment, we will better serve our
young patients and their families.
Information
For more information about Shands Hospital for Children,
call 352.265.KIDS. To make an appointment at Pediatrics After Hours, call
352.265.0724. Information is also available online at http://shands.org/hospitals/children/
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UF Faculty & Staff
David W. Pincus, MD
> David W. Pincus,
MD, PhD, is the Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery. He
grew up in Massachusetts where he attended high school at Deerfield
Academy. After graduating from Yale College with a B.S. degree in
biology, Dr. Pincus obtained M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell
University. His Ph.D. thesis work focused on the development of precursor
cells (stem cells) in the nervous system. He then pursued a neurosurgical
residency at the Neurological Institute of New York at
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. During his residency training he
continued his work with neuronal precursor cells, now with human brain
samples, and received the Congress of Neurological Surgeons' Resident Award
in 1996.
After completing his chief residency at Columbia, Dr. Pincus
served as a pediatric neurosurgical fellow at Children's National Medical
Center in Washington, DC. He then accepted a position as an attending at
Children's where he remained for one year prior to being asked to join
the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Florida. As
the primary pediatric neurosurgeon at the University of Florida, Dr.
Pincus takes care of all neurosurgical problems in children.
Dr. Pincus is board certified by both the American Board of
Neurological Surgeons and the American Board of Pediatric Neurosurgeons
and is a member of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons. He
cares for patients from birth through 21 years of age.
 Leigh-Ann Perkins,
ARNP
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Physician Referrals
Physicians may make appointments for their patients with any
of our physicians by completing one of the following:
Please print and complete the Patient Health History
Questionnaire, below. Ask your patient or bring this completed form to
her/his appointment.
Patient Health History
Questionnaire (PDF file)
Shands Transfer Center
The
Shands at the University of Florida Transfer Center is a service designed to provide an easier and more
efficient way for referring physicians to transfer their patients to
Shands at UF. When you call the Shands Transfer Center to refer a patient
to UF Neurosurgery, you will always speak directly to a UF
Department of Neurosurgery faculty member.
The Transfer Center is
designed to do the following:
- Provide an easier and more efficient mechanism
for processing transfers into Shands at UF from other healthcare
providers
- Establish a designated point of contact for
referring physicians
- Offer the initial follow-up communication with
referring physicians regarding the transferred patient's arrival
Shands at UF
provides free, one-call transfer access 24 hours a day, seven days a week
so physicians can easily arrange for inpatient referrals. Transfer Center
personnel can be reached at
(800) XTRANSFER or (352)
265-0559.
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Pediatric Brain and
Spinal Cord
Tumors
The UF Pediatric Brain Tumor Program at Shands Children's Hospital at the
University of Florida brings together the expertise to provide
comprehensive care for
pediatric patients in an environment that recognizes their unique needs
as children.
In the Department of Neurosurgery, pediatric patients are
treated for brain and spinal cord tumors, by:
What to expect if a child needs surgery
For more information contact our office at (352) 273-9000 or
visit the UF
Pediatric Brain Tumor Program website.
Contact
Information
UF Department of Neurosurgery
Box 100265
Gainesville, FL
32610-0265
Phone: 352-273-9000
800-633-2122, ext. 39000
Fax: 352-392-8413
www.neurosurgery.ufl.edu
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