City: Jacksonville, FL

Category: Health Care

Telephone: (904) 202-2000

Address: 800 Prudential Dr.

Description: The Baptist Medical Center Downtown is a 545-bed facility conveniently located on Jacksonville’s Southbank. Baptist Downtown offers a full range of medical and surgical specialties, including adult and children’s emergency centers, cardiovascular care, comprehensive cancer services including a breast cancer institute, and a full complement of women’s and children’s services. Baptist Downtown also offers joint replacement, bloodless medicine and surgery, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and a sleep center. The Downtown center 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. The hospital also features advanced clinical technologies, including the robot-assisted da Vinci Surgical System, and the Novalis Tx and Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery systems. In addition, Baptist Downtown is home to a Certified Primary Stroke Center and Accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI.If you are driving south on I-95 through Jacksonville, you can see the hospital to the left after you cross the St. Johns River.