Shands at the University of Florida

Badge: nationally ranked Nationally Ranked Hospital

Shands at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL is ranked nationally in 7 adult and 6 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 accredited by the Joint Commission (JC) and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).

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

Shands Children's Hospital at the University of Florida

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Adult Specialties

This hospital was among 140 facilities—fewer than 3 percent of the 4,825 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 among 76 facilities ranked in one or more of the 10 pediatric specialties in the 2011-12 version of Best Children's Hospitals.

Nationally Ranked

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
67%
National Average
69%
Probably or definitely not
4%
State Average
8%
National Average
5%

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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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Affiliated Hospitals or Services

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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