University of Florida Health

University of Florida Health

Type	Private (not-for-profit)
Industry	Health care
Founded	1958
Headquarters	Gainesville, Florida Jacksonville, Florida
Area served	Northeast Florida, North Central Florida
Key people	David S. Guzick, M.D., Ph.D. - President Daniel R. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D. - Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Services	tertiary level clinical care rehabilitation cancer centers community medical facilities pediatrics care psychiatric care
Revenue	120 million USD (FY 2012)^[1]
Number of employees	22,000 (2013) ^[2]
Divisions	Patient Care Education Research
Website	ufhealth.org

University of Florida Health (UF Health) is a medical network associated with the University of Florida. It includes two academic hospitals – UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville and UF Health Jacksonville in Jacksonville – and several other hospitals and facilities in North Florida. It used to be known as Shands Healthcare and UF&Shands.^[3] The network was named to the U.S. News & World Report's 2015 list of the nation's top 50 hospitals.^[4]

History

William A. Shands was a Florida state Senator, elected from the 32nd District in the mid-1940s. Shands was recruited to the effort to create a teaching hospital in the Gainesville area, though he at first considered that a larger city might be a better site, and was instrumental in obtaining state funding. In 1956, the University of Florida Colleges of Medicine and Nursing opened; in 1958, the UF Teaching Hospital followed. It was renamed in 1965 to recognize Shands's efforts to W. A. Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics.^[5] The institution later became Shands Hospital, part of the Shands HealthCare network.

In 1969, the UF College of Medicine established a satellite campus in Jacksonville at Duval Medical Center; this was renamed University Hospital in 1971. In 1999, both University Hospital and another Jacksonville hospital, Methodist Medical Center, were merged into Shands HealthCare as Shands Jacksonville, which included a hospital, associated clinics and the university campus. The complex was renamed UF Health at Jacksonville in 2013, with the hospital itself being named UF Health Jacksonville.^[3]

The UF network purchased Alachua General Hospital in east Gainesville from Santa Fe Health Care in 1996, changing the name to Shands AGH. Prior to being purchased by Santa Fe in 1983, AGH was owned by the county.^[6] On Nov. 1, 2009, Shands HealthCare closed Shands AGH due to budget cuts.^[7] The system simultaneously opened a cancer hospital south of its main location on the UF campus.

The network was renamed University of Florida Health in May 2013.^[3]

Facilities

The Gainesville campus of Miller Health Science Center

The following tertiary facilities represent the core of UF Health's academic, teaching, trauma, specialty and research-related hospitals. With campuses in Gainesville and Jacksonville, UF Health includes six health colleges, six research institutes, two teaching hospitals, two specialty hospitals and a host of physician medical practices and outpatient services throughout north central and northeast Florida.

Health Science Center Gainesville

Located at UF's main campus, the center encompasses six health colleges, six research institutes, two specialty hospitals and a teaching hospital. UF Health Cancer Center, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Emerging Pathogens Institute, Genetics Institute, Institute on Aging and McKnight Brain Institute.

HSC Colleges (Gainesville)
College of Dentistry
College of Public Health and Health Professions
College of Medicine
College of Nursing
College of Pharmacy
College of Veterinary Medicine

UF Health Shands Hospital is the flagship teaching hospital of the University of Florida. The hospital is a Level I trauma center and a leading organ-transplant center. It houses 830-beds^[8]
UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital
UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital

Health Science Center Jacksonville

Jacksonville is home to a large and important regional campus of UF Health, including three colleges, the UF Proton Therapy Institute, and the UF Health Jacksonville hospital.

HSC Colleges (Jacksonville)
College of Medicine
College of Nursing
College of Pharmacy

UF Health Jacksonville

Other facilities

UF Health Shands Rehab Hospital
UF Health Florida Recovery Center
UF Health Shands Psychiatric Hospital

Community hospitals

Shands Healthcare sold its community hospitals (Shands Lake Shore, Shands Live Oak, and Shands Starke) on July 1, 2010, to Health Management Associates.

References

↑ "Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics, Inc. and Subsidiaries Consolidated Basic Financial Statements, Required Supplementary Information and Supplemental Consolidating Information June 30, 2012 and 2011" (PDF). UF Health. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
↑ "Welcome to UF Health". UF Health. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
1 2 3 Charlie Patton (May 20, 2013). "Shands Jacksonville renamed UF Health Jacksonville". The Florida Times-Union. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
↑ U.S. News & World Report: America’s Best Hospitals 2015
↑ Shands website: Shands HealthCare History
↑ Swirko, Cindy: "County to hold meeting on AGH" Gainesville Sun, April 15, 2009
↑ Chun, Diane: "The end of an era: Shands AGH closes on Sunday" Gainesville Sun, October 28, 2009
↑ "Message from Dr. David S. Guzick". UF Health. Retrieved 4 June 2013.

External links

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