Baptist Health, founded in 1955, is North Florida’s most comprehensive health care system and the area’s only non-profit, mission-driven, locally governed health care provider. Baptist Health has over 200 points of care throughout the Northeast Florida region, including our six award-winning hospitals: Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville, Wolfson Children’s Hospital, Baptist Medical Center Beaches, Baptist Medical Center Clay, Baptist Medical Center Nassau and Baptist Medical Center South. The most preferred health care system in the region, Baptist Health also includes 57 primary care offices, as well as home health, behavioral health, pastoral care, rehabilitation services, occupational health and urgent care.

Baptist Health invests more than $250 million annually in social responsibility initiatives, charity care and the cost of uncompensated care. Priorities include children having access to health care, adults having access to quality care, elderly people living independent, fulfilling lives, access to mental health services, maternal and child health and other social determinants of health. Baptist Health has the area’s only dedicated heart hospital; orthopedic institute; women’s services; neurological institute, including comprehensive neurosurgical services, a comprehensive stroke center and two primary stroke centers; a Bariatric Center of Excellence; a full range of psychology and psychiatry services; urgent care services; and primary and specialty care physicians’ offices throughout Northeast Florida. The Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center is a regional destination for multidisciplinary cancer care, which is clinically integrated with the MD Anderson Cancer Center, the internationally renowned cancer treatment and research institution in Houston.

Awards

In 2022, we received the following awards and made medical advancements.

Awards (health system, campuses)

Designated Clinical Center by the Angioma Alliance
#BaptistJax and #BaptistSouth have been recognized in the U.S. News and World Report's best hospitals list for their neurology and neurosurgery programs
2022 Healthiest Companies Platinum Level Award, the highest level of achievement, from the First Coast Worksite Wellness Council
Digital technology team named Arista Networks' Campus Network Technology Innovator of the Year for 2022
Received the top designation of #LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader in the Human Rights Campaign’s #HealthCareEqualityIndex (HEI) for the second time. All 5 of our hospitals (including Wolfson Children's) received the maximum score
America's best employers for #diversity by Forbes Magazine! In its annual "America's Best Employers for Diversity 2022" list
Wolfson Children's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (#PICU) team on earning the Silver #AACNBeacon Award for Excellence
All Baptist Health hospitals have once again achieved Magnet recertification
Nation’s “Most Wired” health systems for successfully leveraging technology to improve patient care by CHIME - College of Healthcare Information Management Executives.
Wolfson Children’s Hospital has received Level I Pediatric Trauma Center verification from the American College of Surgeons (ACS)
Recognized in the Jacksonville Business Journal's 2022 Healthiest Employer awards for providing a best-in-class healthy workplace
Baptist Jacksonville, Baptist Beaches, Baptist Nassau and Baptist South were recognized for outstanding stroke care by the American Heart Association (AHA) and received the AHA’s GoldPlus Get With The Guidelines® – Stroke Quality Achievement Award along with additional achievements.
Baptist Beaches been named to Newsweek’s list of World’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2023
Baptist Jacksonville, Baptist Beaches, Baptist Nassau & Baptist South received an ‘A’ Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade for Spring 2022