Shands HealthCare, affiliated with the University of Florida Health Science Center, is one of the Southeast's premier health systems. Shands includes eight hospitals: two academic medical centers; four community hospitals; and two specialty hospitals.

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With multi-specialty group practices based in Gainesville and Jacksonville, approximately 1,000 University of Florida faculty physicians provide care in Shands facilities and more than 80 outpatient practices throughout the region.

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Shands News

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Shands HealthCast

Learn about the link between immunizations and autism with Dr. Mobeen Rathore, University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville Professor of Pediatrics and Division Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology at Shands Jacksonville.

Learn about GI cancer with Dr. Robert Marsh, professor, University of Florida College of Medicine and Co-Director of the GI Cancer Center at Shands at the University of Florida.

Shands.org Featured Content

Robotic Prostatectomy, a minimally invasive surgical procedure, is available from University of Florida urologists at Shands. Learn more.

Join Shands HealthCare's email advocacy program to help stop proposed Medicaid cuts.