Shands Jacksonville Medical Center

Shands Jacksonville Medical Center is a teaching hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It is one of seven hospitals in the Shands HealthCare system and functions as the Jacksonville campus for the University of Florida's Health Science Center. One of two academic hospitals in the Shands system, it serves 19 counties in Florida and several in 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. Through its association with the University of Florida, it offers classes and degrees through the university's College of Medicine, College of Nursing, and College of Pharmacy.

History

Shands Jacksonville was created in 1999 when Gainesville, Florida-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.

• 1901 - George A. Brewster Hospital and School of Nurse Training, which later became Methodist Hospital, 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 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]
• 2011 - Shands Jacksonville received Magnet^® recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center

See also

• University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville
• Shands at the University of Florida

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

External links

• Shands Jacksonville Official website