Jackson Memorial Hospital

Geography
Location	Miami, Florida, United States
Organization
Care system	Medicare
Hospital type	County-Owned and -Operated, Teaching
Affiliated university	University of Miami
Services
Emergency department	Level I trauma center
Beds	1,550
History
Founded	1918
Links
Website	home page
Lists	Hospitals in the United States

Jackson Memorial Hospital (also known as "Jackson" or abbreviated "JMH") is a non-profit, tertiary care teaching hospital and the major teaching hospital of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida. It is owned and operated by Miami-Dade County through the Public Health Trust, and is supported by Miami-Dade County residents through a half-cent sales tax.

Located in the Miami Health District, in the Northwest quadrant of the intersection of I-95 and FL-836, the hospital is the center of a thriving medical center that includes the Miami VA Medical Center, the University of Miami Hospital (formerly Cedars of Lebanon Medical Center), and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, with its numerous research affliates and laboratories - including the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, the UM/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, the world-renowned Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital, the Diabetes Research Foundation, and the National Parkinson Foundation. The Miami-Dade Justice Center and Miami-Dade County Jail are also within a few blocks of the hospital. It is readily accessible via the Civic Center Station of the Miami MetroRail.

It is the third-largest public hospital and third-largest teaching hospital in the United States. With more than 1,550 beds, it is a referral center, a magnet for research and home to the Ryder Trauma Center - the only Level 1 Adult and Pediatric trauma center in Miami-Dade. Jackson Memorial is the centerpiece of the Jackson Health System, operated by the Miami-Dade County Public Health Trust. The Jackson Health System also includes Jackson North Medical Center (formerly Parkway Regional Medical Center) in North Miami, which will be the teaching hospital of the new Florida International University College of Medicine, and Jackson South Community Hospital (formerly Deering Hospital) in Perrine, FL.

In 2007, four University of Miami specialties at Jackson Memorial Hospital were ranked among the best in the country by U.S. News & World Report. The University of Miami Bascom Palmer Eye Institute was ranked as the best Ophtalmologic center in the U.S. Jackson Memorial's Ear, Nose and Throat was ranked 17th, while the digestive disorders and kidney disease programs were ranked 32nd.^[1]. JMH is home to Holtz Children's Hospital, which has 254 licensed beds and cares for children -- newborn to 21 years old -- with everything from common ailments to multi-organ transplants.

The UM/Jackson Memorial Medical Center is a world leader in organ transplants, performing more than 400 solid organ transplants a year. It is also known for having outstanding residency and fellowship programs.

The UM/Jackson Memorial Burn Center is a regional referral center.

[edit] Other notability

• On July 15, 1997, fashion icon Gianni Versace was declared dead at Jackson Memorial Hospital, following a shooting in front of his Ocean Drive mansion, the Casa Casuarina, in Miami Beach.

• On November 27, 2007, former University of Miami and Washington Redskins football star Sean Taylor was declared dead at Jackson Memorial Hospital, following a shooting of Taylor in his Miami-area home.

• Early in 2009 Jackson denied a lesbian woman, Janice Langbehn, access to her partner of 17 years as she was dying. The hosptial stated that, "it has no obligation to allow their patients’ visitors nor any obligation whatsoever to their patients’ families, healthcare surrogates, and visitors."^[2] The court dismissed the case.^[3], ^[4]

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