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Baptist Health's Flagship, Tertiary-Care Hospital

Centrally located in Jacksonville on the Southbank of the St. Johns River, Baptist Medical Center is a full-service, Magnet™ designated tertiary care hospital representing nearly all major specialties. This flagship campus is also home to Baptist Heart Hospital, the area’s only dedicated Heart Hospital offering comprehensive, high-quality cardiovascular care and Wolfson's Children Hospital, the area's only children's hospital.

 Consistently rated Jacksonville's "Most Preferred Healthcare Provider" by consumers in the annual National Research Corporation survey, Baptist recently was named one of the 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare in the U.S. by Modern Healthcare.

For 2009-10, Baptist Downtown was named among U.S.News & World Report's "Best Hospitals 2009-10" and among the top 50 in the country for neurology and neurosurgery