Patient Care
Overview
The University of Florida Health Science Center is dedicated to providing quality healthcare to the citizens of Florida and to advancing the practice of patient care. Our six HSC colleges, major research centers and institutes, and clinical enterprise focus on building collaborative specialized clinical services centered on quality and innovation. Our vision is to optimize our collective expertise in order to improve patient care, education, discovery, and the health of the community as we aspire to be a preeminent academic health center.
Our success is predicated on research-based, multidisciplinary, cross-college programs. Centers of Excellence are staffed by nationally and internationally recognized UF faculty clinicians and expert Shands and UF teams providing specialized cancer, cardiovascular, neurological, orthopaedics, pediatric, transplantation and women and family care. Faculty clinicians from all HSC colleges practice and teach in hundreds of clinics and hospitals throughout Florida and south Georgia.
The HSC clinical enterprise serves as a major referral resource for physicians across Florida and the country. HSC colleges both train future and serve current healthcare professionals from all disciplines. In addition, we remain committed to our community connections by providing care to underserved citizens throughout the region.
College of Medicine, University of Florida Physicians includes a wide range of specialties and provide patient care in state of the art academic environments. Seventy percent of our College of Medicine interns and residents will practice within 150 miles of where they train, thus helping to create Florida’s future healthcare workforce.
Shands HealthCare is affiliated with the University of Florida Health Science Center and is one of the premier health systems in the Southeast. Shands HealthCare is committed to delivering essential care to residents living in the local communities it serves; offering advanced diagnostic and medical services; and pioneering and providing sophisticated treatments that draw patients nationally for highly specialized, complex care.
The healthcare system includes a medical staff of over 1,500 UF faculty and community doctors who practice alongside 12,000 Shands employees and 3,000 Shands volunteers. College of Medicine physicians are affiliated with two primary teaching facilities, Shands at UF in Gainesville and Shands Jacksonville, as well as other Shands HealthCare hospitals.
Shands HealthCare facilities include
- Eight hospitals:
- Two academic medical centers (Shands at UF and Shands Jacksonville, both of which feature a state-designated Level One Trauma Center)
- Shands Children’s Hospital, a hospital-within-a-hospital and part of Shands at UF
- Two specialty hospitals (Shands Vista and Shands Rehab Hospital)
- Four community hospitals (Shands AGH, Shands Lake Shore, Shands Live Oak and Shands Starke)
- Outpatient programs:
- Shands HomeCare (North Florida)
- Shands Rehab Centers (Gainesville)
Shands HealthCare, a private, not-for-profit healthcare system, is led by Timothy Goldfarb, Chief Executive Officer, and governed by a Board of Directors.
