Jackson Health System
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Jackson Health System is located in Miami, Florida and is the most comprehensive provider of healthcare services for adults and children in South Florida. Jackson Health System is an integrated healthcare delivery system that consists of its centerpiece, Jackson Memorial Hospital, as well as Holtz Children's Hospital, Jackson Rehabilitation Hospital,Jackson Mental Health Hospital, Jackson North Medical Center and Jackson South Community Hospital. In addition to these hospitals, Jackson Health System also has three primary care centers, five specialty care centers, two long-term care nursing facilities, several school-based clinics that serve various elementary, middle and high schools, a mental health network, medical clinics in five county corrections facilities and multiple community medical practices.
More than 11,000 physicians, nurses and staff serve and fulfill the mission of Jackson Health System, which is to provide a single high standard of health care to all Miami-Dade County residents regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. Jackson is Florida's largest provider of charity care.
Jackson Memorial Hospital opened its doors in 1918 as a 13-bed community hospital and has grown into an accredited, tax-assisted, tertiary teaching hospital. Jackson Health System is internationally recognized and offers routine care to life-saving procedures.
It is also home to Ryder Trauma Center, the only adult and pediatric Level 1 trauma center in Miami-Dade County, and a designated U.S. Army Forward Surgical Team Training Facility, where military healthcare personnel prepare to treat soldiers injured on the battlefield.
The only Florida hospital to perform every kind of organ transplant, Jackson Memorial's transplant center is among the 10 busiest in the nation.
Home to one of the nation's largest graduate medical education programs, Jackson Memorial Hospital works in conjunction with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine faculty, offering a spectrum of services, including patient care, educational programs, a research-focused clinical setting and a variety of community services that focus on health-related issues and topics. Jackson North Medical Center is also affiliated with the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University.
Jackson Memorial Hospital is consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of “America’s Best Hospitals," among the top 50 hospitals nationwide in various specialties.
Jackson's Holtz Children's Hospital has also been recognized annually among the best in the country in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children's Hospitals rankings, which highlight the top 50 children’s hospitals in 10 specialties. Among the Holtz specialties regularly recognized is neonatology. Every day premature babies are nursed back to health in Jackson Memorial’s Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, which is the largest in Florida.
In 2011, U.S. News ranked the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center the #1 hospital in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metropolitan area, beating 69 other hospitals in the region.
Jackson Health System is governed by the Public Health Trust Financial Recovery Board, a devoted team of volunteer citizens that act on behalf of the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners. Jackson Health System's current President and CEO is Carlos A. Migoya.
