Jackson Memorial Hospital is an accredited, non-profit, tertiary care hospital and the major teaching facility for the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. With more than 1,550 licensed beds, Jackson Memorial Hospital is a referral center, a magnet for medical research, and home to Ryder Trauma Center - the only adult and pediatric Level 1 trauma center in Miami-Dade County.
Jackson Memorial is continually ranked in U.S. News & World Report among the "Best Hospitals In America." As one of the nation’s busiest hospitals based on the number of admissions to a single facility, Jackson Memorial offers a broad range of services and clinical programs by a medical staff that is recognized for its patient care, education and research.
Jackson Memorial Hospital has received the American Stroke Association's Get With The GuidelinesSM - Stroke Silver Performance Achievement Award. The award recognizes Jackson's commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of stroke care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted standards and recommendations.
"Our comprehensive stroke center at Jackson Memorial is not only the largest comprehensive stroke center in South Florida, but it has also received this outstanding quality ranking from the Get With The Guidelines Stroke Program," said Ralph L. Sacco, M.S., M.D., FAAN, FAHA., chief of the neurology service at Jackson Memorial Hospital, chairman of the department of neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and president-elect of the American Heart Association.
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Three Jackson Health System units received awards from Professional Research Consultants, Inc., also known as PRC, for receiving high patient satisfaction scores in 2008. South Wing 8 at Jackson Memorial Hospital and the Pediatric Emergency Room at Holtz Children's Hospital were awarded for having a score at or above 90 percent for the year. The Mental Health Unit at Jackson South Community Hospital received two awards: one for scoring at or above 90 percent for the year and a second for receiving the highest score of any mental health unit in the PRC database.
Congratulations to all the winners!!
World-renowned fetal surgeon Rubén A. Quintero, M.D., has joined the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Women’s Hospital Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital as director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. At University of Miami/Jackson, Dr. Quintero has launched the only fetal therapy program in Florida.
Few hospitals in the country offer these services, which can effectively treat previously untreatable, life-threatening disorders discovered in unborn babies. Dr. Quintero is a leader in the field of fetal therapy, a subspecialty in existence since 1980. He is best known for developing a minimally invasive approach for the correction of birth defects in utero, also known as Operative Fetoscopy. He has also developed the selective laser technique to treat twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), a condition resulting from the unbalanced flow of blood between two fetuses sharing a common placenta.
After undergoing fetal surgery, infants can receive additional care after their birth at Jackson’s Holtz Children’s Hospital, known worldwide for its team of pediatric specialists experienced in treating children with all types of needs, from routine care to life-saving procedures.
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