Shands Jacksonville

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Shands Jacksonville
Shands HealthCare
Location
Place Jacksonville, Florida, (US)
Organization
Care System Medicare/Medicaid/Public
Hospital Type Teaching
Affiliated University University of Florida
Services
Emergency Dept. Level I Trauma Center
Beds 696
History
Founded 1999
Links
Website Homepage
See also Hospitals in Florida

Shands Jacksonville is a teaching hospital located in Jacksonville, Florida.

It is the largest of eight hospitals in the Shands HealthCare system and functions as the Jacksonville campus for the University of Florida Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Dentistry.

The hospital serves 19 counties in northeastern Florida as well as several counties in southeastern Georgia. The campus is home to North Florida's Level I trauma center and, in 2006, became home to one of the nation's few proton therapy treatment facilities.

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[edit] History

Shands Jacksonville was created in 1999 when Gainesville, Fla.-based Shands HealthCare purchased two adjacent medical facilities in Jacksonville - University Medical Center and Methodist Medical Center.

The lineage of the hospital can be traced back to 1870 when Jacksonville's first hospital and Florida's first non-military hospital, Duval Hospital and Asylum, was established at the corner of Jessie and Franklin Streets in downtown Jacksonville. The original tiny building was known as the "poor house."

  • 1901 - George A. Brewster Hospital and School of Nurse Training, which later became Methodist Medical Center, opened to care for victims of the Great Fire of 1901 [1]
  • 1926 - Duval Hospital and Asylum renamed to Duval County Hospital.
  • 1948 - Duval County Hospital became Duval Medical Center (DMC), called the "nation's oldest publicly supported hospital" [2]
  • 1963 - Florida Legislature created the Duval County Hospital Authority to facilitate the construction of a new hospital and manage the DMC
  • 1964 - Duval County medical and governmental leaders successfully lobbied for the passage of a $20 million dollar bond issue. Planning began for a new hospital to double the existing facility
  • 1966 - Brewster Hospital and School of Nurse Training closed
  • 1967 - Brewster Hospital moved to Jefferson and Eighth Street, the current location of Shands Jacksonville, and reopened as the not-for-profit Methodist Hospital
  • 1971 - DMC moved to a new eight story, $27 million, 485-bed, state-of-the-art medical facility across the street from Methodist Hospital and changed its name to University Hospital [3]
  • 1982 - University Hospital became a private, not-for-profit facility and contracted with the city of Jacksonville to provide care for the uninsured
  • 1983 - University Hospital opened the first Level I trauma center in Florida
  • 1985 – University Hospital was designated an affiliate of the University of Florida. TraumaOne, their helicopter ambulance service, began operations
  • 1988 – University Hospital was designated the Jacksonville campus for the UF Health Science Center
  • 1989 – University Hospital was renamed University Medical Center (UMC)
  • 1993 - Methodist Hospital was renamed Methodist Medical Center (MMC)
  • 1999 - UMC and MMC were purchased by Shands HealthCare and merged to become Shands Jacksonville
  • 2006 - The University of Florida opened the UF Proton Therapy Institute on the Shands Jacksonville campus [4]

[edit] See Also

[edit] References

  1. ^ History of Shands Jacksonville
  2. ^ UNF Library: Duval Medical Center / University Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida Collection. Finding Aid
  3. ^ http://www.unf.edu/library/sc/images/duvalmedicalcenter.pdf
  4. ^ Proton Therapy Prostate Cancer New Cancer Treatment University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute

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