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Sunshine & Stethoscopes: Health Care on the First Coast
Beautiful beaches and warm sunshine are the first things that come to mind when thinking of the First Coast; but our worldclass health care should also sit at the top of the list. The area hospitals and health care facilities use the latest and most innovative technologies to provide the best care for all their patients’ medical needs. Photos courtesy of UF Health
UF Health UF Health, affiliated with the University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville, is proud to serve Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia residents as the region’s premier academic health center. Traveling down I-95 through Jacksonville from the Georgia state line to St. Augustine takes you close to UF Health medical facilities. The four medical campuses are UF Health Jacksonville in downtown Jacksonville, UF Health North near Jacksonville International Airport, UF Health Emerson Medical Plaza on the south side of Jacksonville and UF Health Wildlight in Yulee. These encompass more than 60 practices throughout the area offering primary and specialty care services. UF Health Jacksonville is a fullservice hospital and home to the only Level I trauma program in the area, 24/7 emergency room and Level III 7 0
neonatal intensive care unit. Some
Office Building, offering more than 30
UF Health Wildlight is the newest
specialty care services on site are
specialty services including outpatient
outpatient medical facility, which
cardiology, obstetrics and gynecology,
surgery, laboratory and diagnostic
opened in December 2019 and is
neurosurgery, orthopaedics,
services.
the official medical provider for the
rehabilitation services and many more. The University of Florida Colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy are also located on the UF Health Jacksonville campus.
UF Health Emerson Medical Plaza is home to a multiservice outpatient care center. Rehabilitation services offers physical, speech, occupational and neurological therapies. A variety of
UF Health North is home to the only
additional specialties are available,
full-service hospital in North Florida,
from cardiology and neurosciences to
a 24/7 emergency room, and 12 state-
endocrinology and imaging services.
of-the-art labor and delivery suites.
As well as primary care and health
Also on this campus is the Medical
screening services.
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Wildlight Community. This campus offers urgent care, dentistry, family medicine, pediatrics, mental health services, obstetrics and gynecology, imaging and a laboratory. The newest addition is the rehabilitation facility that opened in fall of 2020 and offers occupational, physical and speech therapies for adults and children. The new facility is also home to a healthy living center and a YMCA.
