Our Services

The Johns Hopkins All Children’s trauma team serves infants, children and adolescents when they are injured and is available when seconds matter most.

Certified as a designated Pediatric Trauma Center by the Florida Department of Health, our facility and team are equipped to care for pediatric patients who need comprehensive medical and surgical services. Our teams are well trained, educated specifically on care of injured children, and have resources available for family-centered care when time is of the essence

Available 24/7

Available 24 hours a day, every day, our medical experts come together quickly and work closely with the team in the Emergency Center to examine, diagnose and treat patients who have severe or life-threatening injuries. We work with our community hospitals and the hospital’s LifeLine team, which provides hospital-to-hospital critical care transport of patients to Johns Hopkins All Children’s who need advanced, specialized care.

Specially Trained Pediatric Trauma Team

Trauma injuries can result from a number of causes – motor vehicle crashes, boating or other water-related vehicles, sports-related injuries, assaults, falls, and fire-related events. Trauma patients often need very specialized pediatric care upon arrival, and we understand that treating children is different from treating adults. All members of our care team, including surgeons, nurses, social workers, and our support teams, are highly skilled in caring for severe or life-threatening pediatric injuries. 

Our facility is specially designed to care for infants, children and adolescents and provides the latest equipment, technology and a complete set of pediatric-specific trauma standards and protocols.

Patient safety is our highest priority. With our highly skilled team members at the state-of-the-art Center for Medical Simulation and Innovative Training, our teams practice and train to take care of the most injured children in our community. The Simulation Center works with medical teams throughout the hospital, facilitating training that helps them provide patients with consistent, high quality, and specialized care.

We provide a seamless transition for patients who need additional specialty care outside of trauma services. Our continuum of care for trauma patients extends across multiple departments and disciplines, including:

• Anesthesiology
• Critical care
• General surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Orthopaedic surgery
• Pathology
• Perioperative care
• Radiology
• Rehabilitation
• Trauma physician assistants/APRNs

Many of our specialists provide services, such as rehabilitation, at our Outpatient Care Center locations, meaning our patients are often able to receive the follow-up care they need closer to home after they are discharged from the hospital.

Pediatric Preventive Care and Safety Programs

Educating families and the community about injury prevention is an important part of our trauma services.

Safe Kids Florida Suncoast, led by Johns Hopkins All Children’s, is a coalition of community organizations and partners committed to preventing injuries in children and adolescents. The coalition provides information and resources for families on safety issues, including:

• Babysitting safety
• Bicycle and pedestrian safety
• Motor vehicle safety
• Safe Routes to School
• Toy safety
• Water safety

Other programs include:

• Healthy Start: Working with women, infants and families to improve their health and well-being.
• Healthy Weight Initiative: Providing families with the tools for developing healthy and active lifestyles

Pediatric Trauma Research and Education Programs

We provide trauma education and training opportunities for health care professionals as well as community members.

Stop the Bleed Program

We participate as instructors in the American College of Surgeon’s Stop the Bleed program, which teaches people how to stop bleeding in a severely injured person.

Pediatric Surgery Fellowship

The Pediatric Trauma Program is a key component of Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Program, which offers broad exposure to all aspects of pediatric surgery. Learn more.

Bay Area Trauma Symposium

Johns Hopkins All Children’s hosts the annual Bay Area Trauma Symposium with Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital. The symposium covers topics related to pediatric and adult trauma

Patient & Family Resources

For families whose children are admitted to the hospital, our Inpatient Family Guide provides a variety of resources and information on what to expect while your child is a patient here. You can find the Inpatient Stay Guide online here.

Child Life specialists are also available to support our patients. Child Life specialists use developmental, educational and therapeutic interventions and play to help patients cope with treatment and hospitalization. Learn more about Child Life.

We also work with the Trauma Survivors Network, a program of the American Trauma Society, which works to support and connect trauma survivors, and provide resources to help enable stable recovery.