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University of Florida Health (UF Health) is a medical network associated with the University of Florida. It includes two academic hospitals – UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville and UF Health Jacksonville in Jacksonville – and several other hospitals and facilities in North Florida. It was formerly known as Shands Healthcare and UF&Shands. The network was named to the U.S. News & World Report's 2007 list of the nation's top 50 hospitals.〔(U.S. News & World Report: America’s Best Hospitals 2007 )〕 ==History== William A. Shands was a Florida state Senator, elected from the 32nd District in the mid-1940s. Shands was recruited to the effort to create a teaching hospital in the Gainesville area, though he at first considered that a larger city might be a better site, and was instrumental in obtaining state funding. In 1956, the University of Florida Colleges of Medicine and Nursing opened; in 1958, the UF Teaching Hospital followed. It was renamed in 1965 to recognize Shands's efforts to ''W. A. Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics''.〔(Shands website: Shands HealthCare History )〕 The institution later became Shands Hospital, part of the Shands HealthCare network. In 1969, the UF College of Medicine established a satellite campus in Jacksonville at Duval Medical Center; this was renamed University Hospital in 1971. In 1999, both University Hospital and another Jacksonville hospital, Methodist Medical Center, were merged into Shands HealthCare as Shands Jacksonville, which included a hospital, associated clinics and the university campus. The complex was renamed UF Health at Jacksonville in 2013, with the hospital itself being named UF Health Jacksonville.〔 The UF network purchased Alachua General Hospital in east Gainesville from Santa Fe Health Care in 1996, changing the name to Shands AGH. Prior to being purchased by Santa Fe in 1983, AGH was owned by the county.〔Swirko, Cindy: ("County to hold meeting on AGH" ) Gainesville Sun, April 15, 2009〕 On Nov. 1, 2009, Shands HealthCare closed Shands AGH due to budget cuts.〔Chun, Diane: ("The end of an era: Shands AGH closes on Sunday" ) Gainesville Sun, October 28, 2009〕 The system simultaneously opened a cancer hospital south of its main location on the UF campus. The network was renamed University of Florida Health in May 2013.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「University of Florida Health」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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