Jackson Health System
Jackson Health System is a nonprofit academic medical system in Miami, Florida. It is Governed by the Public Health Trust. Its services include offering, Miami-Dade County's residents, health services based on financial need.
Jackson Health System consists of the following resources:
- Jackson Memorial Hospital
- Jackson South Medical Center
- Jackson North Medical Center
- Holtz Children's Hospital
- Jackson Rehabilitation Hospital
- Jackson Behavioral Health Hospital
- A network of UHealth Jackson Urgent Care centers.
- Multiple primary care and specialty care centers.
- Two long-term care nursing facilities.
- Plus a team of Corrections Health Services clinics.
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Jackson Memorial Hospital opened in 1918 as a 13-bed community hospital and has grown into an accredited, tax-assisted, tertiary teaching hospital associated with the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami.Jackson Memorial Hospital's Miami Transplant Institute is one of the largest transplant centers in the United States. It is one of the only hospitals in Florida to perform every kind of organ transplant for both adult and pediatric patients.
It is also home to Ryder Trauma Center, one of the only adult and pediatric Level 1 trauma centers in Miami-Dade County, and to a designated U.S. Army Forward Surgical Team Training Facility, where military healthcare personnel prepare to treat soldiers injured on the battlefield.
Jackson Memorial Hospital operates a graduate program in conjunction with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine faculty. This collaborative effort offers patient care, educational programs, research-focused clinical settings, and community services for health-related issues. Jackson North Medical Center maintains an affiliation with the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University.