Baptist Health
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Baptist Health, based in Jacksonville, Florida, is a network of five hospitals, affiliated with 25 primary care offices located throughout Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia. All Baptist Hospitals have the MAGNET designation, the highest honor a health care organization can receive for excellence in patient care.
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[edit] History
For more than 50 years, Baptist Health has provided residents of Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia with excellent care in every stage of life. They are the most comprehensive health care provider in the region, continually expanding to meet the changing needs of the communities they serve.
[edit] Hospitals
[edit] Baptist Downtown
The original Baptist Memorial Hospital was opened in the 1940’s, and is the flagship hospital for Baptist Health. In the early 1990's the hospital's name was changed to Baptist Medical Center Downtown. They are a tertiary referral hospital in downtown Jacksonville on the south bank of the St. Johns River. Baptist Downtown provides a wide range of services in cardiology, oncology (including gynecological), women's health (including obstetrics, gynecology and a Women's Resource Center), orthopedics, pediatrics, ophthalmology, emergency care (including Life Flight's air ambulance, a children's emergency center and hyperbaric medicine), intensive care medicine, bloodless surgery, pulmonary services (including an adult/pediatric sleep disorders lab), pastoral care, radiology, rehabilitation and psychiatry/psychology. They also have the following regional referral centers: Jacksonville Orthopedic Institute (located in the Reid Medical Building) and Baptist Cancer Institute (located in the Edna Williams Cancer Center).
[edit] Baptist Nassau
A full-service hospital opened in Fernandina in 1942. The hospital moved to its current location at Lime and South 18th Streets in the late 1970’s. In 1994, it joined Baptist Health as Baptist Medical Center Nassau. The hospital converted to an electronic medical record system, one of a handful of community hospitals in the nation to do so. Baptist Nassau is recognized as a leader in the adoption of innovative clinical information technologies to increase patient safety.
[edit] Wolfson Children’s Hospital
Morris David Wolfson (father of Louis Wolfson), made a $500,000 donation in 1946 to create a children’s health care facility in Jacksonville. In September 1955, Wolfson Memorial Children's Hospital opened as a 50-bed children’s wing in Baptist Memorial Hospital. The center grew slowly, until the decision was made in 1971 to consolidate the services into a separate facility with the name, Wolfson Children’s Hospital (WCH). The guiding theme of the organization has always been, “Children are not little adults”. They require different treatment, not just smaller adult doses. In 1987, WCH and Nemours Children's Clinic began an affiliation to better serve area children. The partnership can be seen in the Kids Walk, which crosses Interstate 95 and connects the two organizations. WCH is the main pediatric teaching facility for the University of Florida/Jacksonville Pediatric Residency Training Program. [1]
[edit] Baptist Beaches
A $12 million, multi-story facility opened its doors in November 1988 as First Coast Medical Center, a public (tax-supported) hospital in Jacksonville Beach. Baptist Health acquired the facility in 1994 and changed the name to Baptist Medical Center Beaches. The surgery and recovery room areas were expanded in 1995, followed by a second medical office building the following year, and an outpatient wing in 1997. That same year, the Women's Pavilion opened, bringing maternity services back to the Beaches. A conference room and chapel were completed in 1998. In 2001, the emergency center's capacity was doubled and the diagnostic and rehabilitative center on Roberts Drive was acquired and renovated. Construction began on the East Pavilion in 2003. A fourth floor was added to the East Pavilion in 2006 and 24 more private rooms were completed on the third floor at the end of 2007. [2]
[edit] Baptist South
To meet the expanding needs of southern Duval and St. Johns counties, Baptist South was constructed and opened in February, 2005. The 80,000 square foot adjoining medical office building provides added convenience for patients and physicians. In June 2007, Baptist began building a new $80 million eight-story patient care tower that will house 62 inpatient beds and an additional 10-bed, level II Newborn Intensive Care Unit. The new facility will also will include new labor delivery recovery postpartum (LDRP) rooms and will attach to the current labor and delivery unit in the main hospital. The fourth and fifth floors will be comprised of medical/surgical beds. Part of the new patient tower will be shelled-in space that is available for future outpatient and surgical services growth. The building is expected to be complete in June 2009. [3]
[edit] Foundation
Baptist Health Foundation, Inc. was established in 1985 to be the center for all of the fundraising activities that enable the Baptist Health hospitals to carry out their mission of serving patients of all ages, regardless of ability to pay. Uncompensated and charity care at Baptist accounted for more than $56 million in fiscal year 2006. The Foundation assists Baptist Health’s commitment to providing the best comprehensive care by funding new technology, equipment and treatments.[4]
