Jacksonville Hospitals and Health Care Facilities

Three hospital systems operate the main Jacksonville hospital campuses: UF Health with two hospitals in the city, Baptist Health with six hospitals across Northeast Florida, and Mayo Clinic with its Florida campus in Jacksonville.

UF Health includes two hospitals, UF Health Jacksonville on its downtown campus and UF Health North in north Jacksonville, along with physician practices, clinics and urgent care centers (UF Health Jacksonville). The Jacksonville campus of the University of Florida Academic Health Center includes three UF colleges: medicine, nursing and pharmacy. UF Health traces its Jacksonville work to 1870, when it began in three small buildings.

Baptist Health, founded in 1955, reports six hospitals and ten emergency centers plus more than 200 points of outpatient care around Jacksonville and Northeast Florida (Baptist Health). Its locations menu names Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville, Baptist Medical Center Beaches, Baptist Medical Center South, Baptist Medical Center Clay, Baptist Medical Center Nassau, Baptist Heart Hospital and Wolfson Children's Hospital. Baptist Health is a not-for-profit organization governed locally by a volunteer board of community leaders.

Mayo Clinic in Florida is the Jacksonville campus of Mayo Clinic, and its visitor guide states that U.S. News and World Report 2026-2027 ranks it the No. 1 hospital in Florida and top-ranked in nine specialties nationally (Mayo Clinic in Florida). That ranking is the hospital's own statement of a third-party list, repeated here as Mayo Clinic gives it.

The main Jacksonville hospital campuses are UF Health Jacksonville on West 8th Street, UF Health North on Max Leggett Parkway, Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville on Prudential Drive, Baptist Medical Center South and Baptist Medical Center Beaches in Jacksonville Beach.

UF Health Jacksonville is at 655 W. 8th St., Jacksonville, FL 32209, and its appointment line is (904) 244-0411 (UF Health Jacksonville location). UF Health North sits at 15255 Max Leggett Parkway, Jacksonville, FL 32218, near Interstate 95, and its campus includes a 168-bed hospital and a 24/7 adult and pediatric emergency center; appointments there are (904) 383-1000 (UF Health North location).

Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville is at 800 Prudential Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32207, phone 904.202.2000, and Wolfson Children's Hospital stands on the same Baptist Jacksonville campus (Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville). Baptist Medical Center South is at 14550 Old St. Augustine Road, Jacksonville, FL 32258, phone 904.271.6000 (Baptist Medical Center South). Baptist Medical Center Beaches is at 1350 13th Avenue South in Jacksonville Beach, phone 904.627.2900 (Baptist Medical Center Beaches).

The Baptist North Medical Campus runs the Baptist and Wolfson North Emergency Room at 11250 Baptist Health Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32218, open 24/7 for adults and children (Baptist North Medical Campus). That puts a UF Health hospital and a Baptist emergency room both in the 32218 ZIP code of north Jacksonville.

The Level I trauma center in Jacksonville is UF Health TraumaOne at UF Health Jacksonville, which UF Health says opened in 1983 as the first trauma program in Florida.

UF Health says the American College of Surgeons has verified UF Health TraumaOne in Jacksonville since 2018 as an adult Level I trauma center that also cares for pediatric patients (UF Health Jacksonville). UF Health says it remains the only Level I center in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia that takes both adults and children.

For children, Baptist Health says Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville is the region's only children's hospital (Baptist Health). Baptist also lists ten emergency centers across its Jacksonville area system, counted separately from its six hospitals.

UF Health also says it was the first in Northeast Florida to open combined emergency room and urgent care centers (UF Health Jacksonville).

Mayo Clinic says Jacksonville International Airport is 28 miles northwest of its Jacksonville campus, which is reached by taxi, scheduled van, limousine or rental car.

Jacksonville International Airport, the main airport for Northeast Florida, is served by about half a dozen major airlines and sits 28 miles northwest of the Mayo Clinic campus in Jacksonville (Mayo Clinic, Getting Here). For private aircraft, Mayo Clinic points to Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport, about 10 miles from its Jacksonville campus, and to the Northeast Florida Regional Airport.

Mayo Clinic in Florida keeps a visitor guide for the Jacksonville campus with sections on parking, campus maps, hotels and lodging, interpreter services, charitable care and financial assistance, and medical records requests (Mayo Clinic in Florida). Mayo Clinic also notes that some hotels and other lodging options include a shuttle to the clinic, so a car is not always needed for appointments (Mayo Clinic, Getting Here).

Jacksonville veterans use the Jacksonville 1 VA Clinic at 1536 North Jefferson Street, and active-duty families use Naval Hospital Jacksonville and its branch clinics, including Mayport.

The Jacksonville 1 VA Clinic is an outpatient clinic of VA North Florida/South Georgia Health Care at 1536 North Jefferson Street, Jacksonville, FL 32209-6525, offering primary care and specialty services, including dental services and surgery (VA, Jacksonville 1 VA Clinic). The VA page notes that hours vary by service, so a Jacksonville veteran checks the hours for the specific clinic service before going.

Naval Hospital Jacksonville lists branch health clinics at Albany, Jacksonville, Key West, Kings Bay and Mayport, so its reach runs well beyond Duval County (Naval Hospital Jacksonville). Naval Hospital Jacksonville also partners with Veterans Affairs and keeps a VA patients page that explains which veterans are eligible to be seen at the Navy hospital in Jacksonville.

The City of Jacksonville reports 317 registered medical doctors per 100,000 people in Jacksonville, compared with 257 for Florida, but 53 dentists per 100,000 against the state's 59.

The figures come from the Office of Mayor Donna Deegan, which also reports 1,341 nurses per 100,000 people in the City of Jacksonville and cites the Florida Health CHARTS county health dashboards as its source (City of Jacksonville, Primary and Dental Care). The same Jacksonville page flags a lack of affordable dental care and long waits for low-cost dental clinics as a gap.

One caution on these Jacksonville numbers: the city page gives no year for the ratios, so they may lag the current count. The mayor's office groups this page with other Jacksonville health priorities, including initiatives named Get Covered Jax and Healthlink JAX, listed in the mayor's section of the City of Jacksonville website.

Last verified: October 14, 2026, on the City of Jacksonville, UF Health Jacksonville, Baptist Health, Mayo Clinic, VA and Naval Hospital Jacksonville websites.