UF Health Jacksonville

UF Health Jacksonville’s origins date to 1870 as Florida’s first non-military hospital, known then as Duval Hospital. Since those early days, it has combined its strengths with the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville and now offers residents in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia all the benefits of a comprehensive academic health center.

• UF primary care physicians and pediatricians located in more than 30 practices in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia
• Level III neonatal intensive care unit
• One of three Poison Information Centers in Florida
• UF Health TraumaOne, the state’s first and region’s only Level I trauma center
• UF Health Proton Therapy Institute for advanced cancer treatment located on campus

UF Health Jacksonville opened a second campus in Jacksonville in 2015. UF Health North is a leading-edge medical complex that features a 28-bed emergency room, an outpatient surgery center, advanced imaging services and numerous physician offices. A 92-bed hospital opened two years later and is the only full-service hospital in North Jacksonville. UF Health North is expanding again, with construction of a second bed tower now underway. The six-story, 124-bed inpatient facility will include two floors dedicated to patients who require intense physical therapy, with two others focused on acute care. The tower is expected to be completed in spring 2024.

At a Glance

*Includes UF Health North
**Data is from fiscal year 2022-23

University of Florida Jacksonville Physicians Inc.

University of Florida Jacksonville Physicians Inc. is a network of more than 60 primary care and specialty practices that offer high-quality care from the more than 400 UF faculty physicians based in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia. The network includes more than two dozen primary care practices throughout Duval County, with additional locations in Baker, Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties in Florida, as well as Camden County in Georgia.

“We strive to heal, to comfort, to educate and to discover through quality health care, elimination of health disparities, medical education, innovation and research.”

Clinical Programs of Distinction

UF Health Jacksonville’s clinical programs of distinction offer integrated multidisciplinary care, medical and community education, and clinical research.

Neurology/Neurosurgery

The UF Health Neuroscience Institute in Jacksonville brings together a team of highly skilled neurologists and neurosurgeons who provide comprehensive care for patients suffering from diseases of the brain, spinal cord and nervous system, including brain tumors, aneurysms, epilepsy, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, neuromuscular disease, sleep disorders, stroke and spinal disease, and injury. The largest integrated neuromedicine practice in Northeast Florida, it is also one of the most advanced, with most faculty having completed fellowship training in subspecialty fields. Among the recent, groundbreaking specialties is the new Pregnancy in Epilepsy Program, which addresses the unique challenges and concerns of pregnant women with epilepsy. In addition, the care team offers individualized care every month for women with epilepsy during their pregnancy.”

Cardiology

UF Health Jacksonville is renowned for treating patients with complex diseases and being on the forefront of advancing the science of interventional cardiology. The UF Health Cardiovascular Center in Jacksonville offers fully integrated, comprehensive heart programs, including a coronary interventional program, nuclear program, electrophysiology program, noninvasive program and peripheral interventional program. The center is also now home to an expanded cardiothoracic surgery program led by two distinguished surgeons and a new operating room with the latest leading-edge technology dedicated to CT procedures.

Cancer

At the UF Health Cancer Center, multidisciplinary teams of surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and other cancer specialists work together using the latest diagnostic and therapeutic innovations to optimize cancer treatment outcomes. Additionally, the UF Health Proton Therapy Institute offers patients with certain cancers leading-edge treatment with minimal side effects.

Trauma

When UF Health TraumaOne began in 1983, it was the first trauma program in Florida. Today, it is still the only adult and pediatric Level I trauma program in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia, with more than 4,300 patients treated in 2023. In 2018, TraumaOne received official verification from the American College of Surgeons, a distinction given only to trauma centers that meet the most stringent criteria. TraumaOne integrates a Level I trauma center, a three-helicopter aeromedical transport service, and professional and community trauma prevention and education programs.

UF Health Proton Therapy Institute

The UF Health Proton Therapy Institute is the only nonprofit proton facility affiliated with a major academic health center in the region. The 108,000-square-foot radiation oncology facility houses both conventional radiation and proton therapy technology. As one of the top five proton therapy facilities in the world for number of patients treated, we are proud to add our recent state of Florida designation as a “Cancer Center of Excellence” to our credentials. From the beginning of admission and the treatment process, patients at the UF Health Proton Therapy Institute get prompt and thorough answers and careful attention paid to all of their cancer treatment needs, including answers about proton therapy side effects, a thorough explanation of the treatment process, guidance on financial and insurance matters, and a connection to support groups and quality of life resources for patients and families.

UF Health Wildlight

The UF Health Wildlight medical office building opened in 2019 as part of the new Wildlight master-planned community in Nassau County. The building houses dentistry, family medicine, imaging, lab services, mental health services, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and an urgent care center. UF Health Rehabilitation opened a year later in the heart of the Wildlight community, offering physical, occupational and speech therapy for adults and children.

UF Health East

UF Health and Jax Spine & Pain Centers, two of Northeast Florida’s leading health care providers, have collaborated on a new leading-edge multispecialty surgery center and medical office building, which opened in Jacksonville’s fast-growing Southside community in November 2022. The Centurion Surgery Center location is a $25 million project and represents the largest freestanding multispecialty surgery center on the First Coast to date. The center offers procedures for spine, orthopaedics, gastrointestinal, oral and maxillofacial, gynecology, as well as interventional pain management. The center operates five days a week and aims to drive down the cost of health care by safely performing appropriately complex surgeries in an outpatient setting.

UF Health Deerwood Park

UF Health Deerwood Park is a leading-edge facility that gives residents of Jacksonville’s Southside another crucial health care option in another convenient location, close to their homes. The new facility includes a wide range of services, including cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, internal medicine, nephrology, ophthalmology, psychiatry, pulmonology and rheumatology.

UF Health Jacksonville Hybrid Urgent Care/Emergency Departments

In 2023, UF Health Jacksonville opened three revolutionary, state-of-the-art emergency and urgent care centers in Northeast Florida. The collaborative effort with Dallas-based Intuitive Health, one of the country’s pioneers in hybrid centers, is giving Northeast Florida residents leading-edge choices for care. The three new centers include full-service ER and urgent care services that are open 24/7. Each facility is equipped with on-site lab equipment and a radiology suite with X-ray and multi-slice CT scanners, and they are staffed with board-certified emergency medicine physicians. An emergency medicine specialist examines each patient and determines the appropriate level of care, which can bring down the potential cost for many patients. The UF Health locations are the first of their kind in Jacksonville.

Awards & Recognitions

University of Florida Health Jacksonville has consistently earned several distinctions in many aspects of health care.

Visit here to see all the ways UF Health Jacksonville and the whole UF Health system has earned national recognition.