Shands at the University of Florida

Badge: nationally ranked Nationally Ranked Hospital

Ranked #2 in Florida

Recognized in Northern Florida

Shands at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL is ranked nationally in 7 adult and 7 pediatric specialties. It was also high-performing in 5 adult specialties, as shown below. Shands at the University of Florida is a 939-bed general medical and surgical facility with 37,547 admissions in the most recent year reported. It performed 17,125 annual inpatient and 14,268 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 58,536 visits. Shands at the University of Florida is a teaching hospital. It is also accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).

These institutions were also considered in this hospital's specialty rankings:

Shands Hospital for Children at the University of Florida

Adult Specialties

This hospital was among 148 facilities—roughly 3 percent of the 4,793 analyzed for the latest Best Hospitals rankings—to be ranked in even one of the 16 specialties.

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Pediatric Specialties

This hospital was one of 80 facilities that made the rankings in at least one of the 10 specialties analyzed for the 2012-13 Best Children's Hospitals.

Nationally Ranked

Editor's Note, 7/17/2012: Some children's hospitals were initially misranked in one or more specialties due to a programming error that affected their scores. The website now displays correct rankings. To see if this hospital was one of the affected hospitals, get details here.

Patient Satisfaction

Under a federal program, most U.S. hospitals now sample recently discharged patients and ask them about their stay. In a year's worth of surveys, here's how this hospital's patients responded to a key question, along with averages within the state and nationally.

Good

Whether patients would recommend the hospital to friends and family:

Definitely
78%
State Average
68%
National Average
70%
Probably or definitely not
3%
State Average
8%
National Average
5%

See complete patient satisfaction survey results

Details

For more about this hospital, see hospital details. The information shown is provided by the American Hospital Association, which compiles data on all U.S. hospitals through an annual survey and from other sources. Hospital ownership, number of doctors and nurses, volume of births and ER visits, and available services such as sports medicine are just a few examples of data collected by the AHA. Find out more at www.ahadata.com.

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Contact

Shands at the University of Florida

1600 SW Archer Road

Gainesville, FL 32610-0326

(352) 265–0111

www.shands.org

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