page_title: University of Florida Health
section_title: Health Science Center Gainesville
hierarchical_section_title: University of Florida Health / Facilities / Health Science Center Gainesville
caption_attribution_description: English: The Cancer Hospital (left) and Children's Hospital (right) as seen from the parking garage.
context_page_description: University of Florida 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 – and several other hospitals and facilities in North Florida. It used to be known as Shands Healthcare and UF&Shands. The network was named to the U.S. News & World Report's 2015 list of the nation's top 50 hospitals.
context_section_description: Located at UF's main campus, the center encompasses six health colleges, six research institutes, three specialty hospitals and a teaching hospital. UF Health Cancer Center, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Emerging Pathogens Institute, Genetics Institute, Institute on Aging and McKnight Brain Institute.
  UF Health Shands Hospital is the flagship teaching hospital of the University of Florida.  The hospital is a Level I trauma center and a leading organ-transplant center. It houses 425-beds
  UF Health Shands Children's Hospital, housing 208 beds and the pediatric emergency department. It is located in the same building as UF Health Shands Adult Hospital.
  UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital, housing 192 beds as well as the adult emergency department, trauma wards, and a cancer research center. It may also be called the Cancer and Trauma Hospital.
  UF Health Shands Neuromedicine Hospital, housing 160 beds and specialized neuro-ORs with intraoperative MRI . While it is a separate entity, it is located in the same building as the Heart and Vascular Hospital.
  UF Health Heart and Vascular Hospital, housing 120 beds and specialized cardiovascular hybrid ORs.
  A new hotel for family and outpatients is also being constructed immediately south of the Cancer and Neuromedicine buildings. All five hospitals, as well as the nearby VA hospital, are connected either at basement level, allowing patients to be transported more easily. The five hospitals are contained in three buildings; to avoid confusion, they are often called the north tower, south tower, and east tower.
caption: The Cancer Hospital (left) and Children's Hospital (right) as seen from the top of parking garage 10.
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