UF Health Shands Hospital

UF Health Shands Hospital

Formation	1958
Type	Teaching hospital
Headquarters	Gainesville, Florida
Location	United States
President	David S. Guzick
Website	Official website

Patient Services Building

UF Health Shands Hospital is a teaching hospital of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. It is one of seven hospitals in the University of Florida Health system, and one of two campuses for UF's Health Science Center, the other being UF Health at Jacksonville.

History

William A. Shands was a Florida state Senator, elected from the 32nd District in the mid-1940s. He was convinced that the best way to enhance the Gainesville community was to establish a teaching hospital at the University of Florida. There was general agreement that the state needed a teaching hospital, but located in a large city, such as Jacksonville, Miami or Tampa. His dedicated efforts were critical to obtaining state funding for a teaching hospital in Gainesville. The University of Florida Colleges of Medicine and Nursing opened in 1956. Two years later, the UF Teaching Hospital was started, on October 20, 1958. In 1965, it was renamed W. A. Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics in honor of the man who did so much to make the facility a reality. The institution later became Shands Hospital, part of the Shands HealthCare network.^[1]

As part of the University of Florida Health Science Center, the hospital is an 852-bed tertiary care facility with 142 intensive care beds. Shands is a Level I trauma center and a leading organ-transplant center.

Health Science Center at the University of Florida

The J. Hillis Miller Health Science Center — named for the former University of Florida president—has expanded since 1956 into the most comprehensive academic health center in the Southeast. The "center" now encompasses six colleges, a statewide network of affiliated hospitals and clinics including Shands Hospital at UF as the flagship teaching hospital and the neighboring Veterans Affairs Medical Center of Gainesville. The UF Health Science Center comprises the following Colleges: Dentistry, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Veterinary Medicine. The University of Florida is one of only a handful of universities to have all these health-related professional schools—including veterinary medicine—and to house most of them under one roof. Shands is as a structure connected to the Stetson Medical Sciences Building and the Academic Research Building—both research lab buildings—the Dental Tower, and buildings housing Nursing and Pharmacy. In addition, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center is connected via an underground passage to the ground floor of Shands. Other institutions include the McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Florida, one of the world's largest research institutions devoted to the challenges resulting from brain and nervous system disorders.

In 2004, Shands at the University of Florida once again joined the prestigious ranks of America's top medical institutions in the 15th annual U.S. News & World Report guide to "America's Top Hospitals." Included among the nation's 50 top academic medical centers, Shands at UF is recognized in 12 clinical specialty areas in 2012's comprehensive report for excellence. Specialty Ranks: Urology (20), Pulmonology (31), Neurology & Neurosurgery (32), Cancer (36), Nephrology (37), Gastroenterology (41), Cardiology & Heart Surgery (47). The following specialties were also recognized as being "High-Performing": Diabetes & Endocrinology, Geriatrics, Orthopedics, Gynecology, and Ear, Nose & Throat.^[2] The Shands Transplant Center at the University of Florida is also ranked 19th in the nation.

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

In January 2008 the University of Florida, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, and Shands formed a partnership to develop world-class programs in cancer care, research and prevention. The partnership, will extend Moffitt’s innovative model of comprehensive patient care to UF and Shands cancer programs.^[3]

Announcing the opening of the new University of Florida Cancer Hospital, for Shands at the University of Florida, located on Archer Road adjacent to Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida. The facility was estimated to cost $388 million, and is 500,000 square feet (46,000 m²).^[4]

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