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Florida
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, named in 2007 to the U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
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list of the nation's top 50 hospitals.
History
William A. ShandsWilliam A. Shands
William Augustine "Willie" Shands was an American politician and elected officeholder. Shands was a long-time Democrat member of the Florida Senate and an advocate for the establishment of a state medical college and teaching hospital.- Early life and education :Shands was born in Alachua County,...
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
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Alachua County, Florida, United States as well as the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The preliminary 2010 Census population count for Gainesville is 124,354. Gainesville is home to the sixth...
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. The institution later became Shands Hospital, part of the Shands HealthCare network.
Shands HealthCare 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.
In 1999, Shands HealthCare acquired two Jacksonville hospitals - University Medical Center, which was affiliated with the University of Florida, and Methodist Medical Center - merging the two institutions into Shands Jacksonville
Shands Jacksonville
Shands Jacksonville Medical Center is a teaching hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It is one of seven hospitals in the Shands HealthCare system and functions as the Jacksonville campus for the University of Florida's Health Science Center...
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On Nov. 1, 2009, Shands HealthCare closed Shands AGH due to budget cuts. The system simultaneously opened a cancer hospital south of its main location on the UF campus.
Hospitals
- One children's service center - Shands Children’s Hospital at UF
- Two academic medical centers - Shands at the University of FloridaShands at the University of FloridaShands at the University of Florida is a teaching hospital at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida and Jacksonville, Florida and is two of many hospitals in the Shands HealthCare system.-History:...
& Shands JacksonvilleShands JacksonvilleShands Jacksonville Medical Center is a teaching hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It is one of seven hospitals in the Shands HealthCare system and functions as the Jacksonville campus for the University of Florida's Health Science Center... - Three Outpatient programs - Shands HomeCare (north Florida), University of Florida Physician Practices (Gainesville and Jacksonville) & Shands Rehab Centers (Gainesville)
- Three community hospitals - Shands Live Oak, Shands LakeShore (Lake City) & Shands Starke
- Specialty hospitals - Shands Rehab Hospital, Shands Vista Behavioral Health, and Shands Cancer Center, all in Gainesville.