University of
Florida Health
Continues
Expansion into
Northeast Florida
SPONSORED REPORT
UF Health North nearly doubled the size of its campus with
the opening of its new 168,000-square-foot bed tower last
May. The latest addition to the North Jacksonville medical
campus on Max Leggett Parkway, just a few miles from
Jacksonville International Airport, is the 92-bed hospital
with all-private patient rooms on four floors of the five-
story building.
The second floor has 20 beds for women’s services,
including 12 large delivery suites that serve as the location
for labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum care —
allowing mothers, babies and loved ones to stay in one
room until discharge. A 24-bed intensive care unit is located
on the third floor, and the fourth and fifth floors each have
24 medical and surgical suites.
The $85 million expansion, along with the existing medical
office complex, provides residents in Northeast Florida and
Southeast Georgia greater access to much-needed health
care services.
UF Health North opened its bed tower (left)
in May 2017, adjacent to the medical office
building that opened three years earlier.
Natural light and photography by local
artists are used throughout the hospital
to bring a sense of the outdoors inside.
“The success of UF Health North and the enthusiasm that
the community has shown have exceeded even our highest
expectations,” said Leon L. Haley Jr., MD, MHSA, CPE, FACEP, chief
executive officer of UF Health Jacksonville and dean of the UF
College of Medicine – Jacksonville. “We knew that this rapidly
growing area of Jacksonville needed a health care facility of its
own, a place that offers the very best possible medical care, and
we’re incredibly proud of the way we have been accepted.”
UF Health North opened its medical office building in
February 2015. The six-story building includes a full-service 24/7
emergency room, outpatient surgery suites, imaging and other
diagnostic services, a midwife-led birth center and four floors
of physician offices. The operation has already earned a 5-star
rating for patient satisfaction in emergency room and outpatient
surgery care by Professional Research Consultants, a national
health care research group.
“It’s not just our physicians and other medical providers
who make this campus special. It’s the incredible attitude and
compassion that everyone who works here brings every day,
recognizing that patients are at the heart of everything we do,”
said Wayne Marshall, vice president of UF Health North. “This is an
incredible resource. I couldn’t be more excited for this community
and for the future of our organization.”