Commitment to Community

Throughout our 50-year history, Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia residents and healthcare professionals have considered Baptist Health a major healthcare resource. Meeting the needs of our thriving and ever-growing community is a challenge we welcome on a daily basis. In early 2005, we opened Baptist Medical Center South, our newest high-tech, family-centered hospital and all four of our existing facilities (Downtown, Beaches, Nassau, and Wolfson Children's Hospital) are being expanded.

Our circle of care goes beyond medicine and technology. In 2003, grants and research contracts totaling over a million dollars connected our mission to others and allowed us to augment community wellness through outreach such as:

• Tipping the Scale (youth mentoring program)
  

  Helping Students Learn about Healthcare Industry (Times Union article)

• partnership with The Bridge of Northeast Florida, Inc.
• support of the I.M. Sulzbacher Health Center
• pastoral care services for Baptist Health Home Health patients
• Disaster-Aid Service to Hospitals
• help for uninsured children through the Scottish Rite Clinic for Childhood Language Disorder
• SafeKids (protecting kids from injury)
• filling a lead role in offering healthcare through JaxCare for 150 residents who are un-insured or under-insured.

Baptist Health executives serve on the Senior Parnership council coordinated by the United Way.

As the region's most comprehensive health care provider, our talented and compassionate employees are committed to providing medicine, education, research, technology and information that translates into a daily demonstration of our ability to provide excellence and support to our community.

Find out more about our commitment to community via the 2007 Report to the Community.