An employee at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital has tested positive for COVID-19, the hospital confirmed Monday afternoon.
The worker — who tested positive over the weekend — was not involved in direct patient care and is being treated at home, according to the hospital, which is near South Miami.
“We are following the recommended CDC and public health protocols to inform and provide guidance to those who might have been in close contact with this employee during the period when he/she might have been contagious,” the hospital said in a written statement. “To preserve the privacy of our employee, we are unable to provide additional information.”
Florida’s Department of Health confirmed 164 additional cases of COVID-19 in the state Monday morning, bringing the state total of confirmed cases to 1,171. Miami-Dade County has a total of 267 cases, as of Monday morning. Broward has a total of 258.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
