Southern Baptist Hospital of Florida

Southern Baptist Hospital of Florida, Inc. (SBHF) is a subsidiary of Baptist Health System, Inc. (Baptist Health), a tax-exempt parent company located in Jacksonville, Florida. SBHF is a tax-exempt organization that operates two acute care hospitals, Baptist Medical Center (Baptist Jacksonville) and Baptist Medical Center South (Baptist South), and four emergency departments: Baptist Emergency Center Clay, Baptist Emergency Town Center, Baptist Emergency Center North, and Baptist Emergency Center Oakleaf. The two hospitals have 762 and 357 licensed beds, respectively. Baptist Jacksonville is a full-service, magnet-designated tertiary care hospital representing nearly all major specialties. This flagship hospital is also home to the Baptist Heart Hospital, offering comprehensive, high-quality cardiovascular care, and Wolfson Children's Hospital (WCH), the only full-service tertiary hospital for children in the region, serving North Florida, South Georgia, and beyond. WCH is a pediatric trauma referral center and is recognized year after year as one of America's best children's hospitals by U.S. News World Report. WCH serves as the main teaching facility for the University of Florida College of Medicine's Pediatric Residency Training Program. For fiscal year 2022, SBHF had 73,248 admissions accounting for 326,081 inpatient observation days, 316,407 emergency room visits, and 40,793 surgeries. SBHF's primary focus is addressing unmet health needs, particularly among vulnerable populations who have limited health resources and access to health care. SBHF's community health efforts are guided by the community health committee, which is comprised of selected Baptist Health board members from across our health system. A cornerstone of SBHF's commitment to the community is caring for the health of vulnerable, uninsured and underserved people among us. During fiscal year 2022, SBHF provided the following uncompensated care and community benefit; (1) charity care - $38.8 million, (2) unreimbursed Medicaid costs - $78.8 million, (3) unreimbursed Medicare costs - $121.5 million, and (4) specific community programs - $22.7 million, for a total of $261.8 million of uncompensated care and community benefits. MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baptist Health have united to create Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center. This partnership brings together MD Anderson's world-renowned cancer expertise and Baptist Health's comprehensive health system to create an unprecedented range of options for adult cancer patients in our region. The goal of the partnership is to provide the same high-level, multidisciplinary cancer care to patients in Northeast Florida that is available to MD Anderson patients in Houston. This includes all aspects along the continuum of cancer care -- patient care, research, education and prevention. The following are some of the awards and honors received by Baptist Jacksonville and Baptist South: (1) recipient of American Heart Association's Get with the Guidelines Stroke Quality achievement award. (Baptist Jacksonville Baptist South), (2) ranked by U.S. News World Report's Best Hospitals in two pediatric specialties - neurology and neurosurgery at Wolfson Children's Hospital during 2022. (3) U.S. News World Report recognized the Neurology and Neurosurgery programs at Baptist Jacksonville and South as "High Performing" in their annual best hospitals list. In addition, the two hospitals ranked No. 2 in the metro Jacksonville region, and 11th best hospital in Florida (4) Leapfrog A and B safety grades (Baptist South - A-rating and Baptist Jacksonville - B rating), (5) Leapfrog named Wolfson Children's Hospital as a Top Children's Hospital, and (6) 2017-22 Magnet re-designation. Baptist Health is the first and only health system in North Florida to achieve Magnet recognition as a health system by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Currently, only eight percent of the hospitals in the United States enjoy magnet designation, which is considered the gold standard for recognizing quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice, an honor first earned in 2007. Many other awards and honors can be viewed at the organization's website www.baptistjax.com.