Cancer

Children's Services

Heart Care

Neurological Services

Orthopaedics

Transplant

Women & Families

Nurse and health professionals support

Shands HealthCare supports the clinical training and supervision of more than 6,000 nursing and health professions students.

We also partner with area high schools, vocational programs and community colleges to recruit and train future healthcare providers and promote the healthcare industry.

Shands is the largest private, not-for-profit employer in north central and northeast Florida. We offer proactive programs to continually recruit skilled healthcare workers to Shands as an employer of choice and make every effort to support employee retention in today’s competitive healthcare market.

These efforts support a crucial source of future physicians since the majority of them tend to practice in the state in which they complete residency training.

Scientific and Clinical Research in the Health Sciences
Fostering future miracles

As a private, not-for-profit organization adhering to state statutes, Shands HealthCare is responsible for providing support to the UF Health Science Center and other universities and community colleges for educational and research activities that benefit residents throughout the state.

Many physicians and researchers at the UF Health Science Center are regarded as national pioneers in researching new treatments and therapies in a variety of medical disciplines. Our UF physician faculty at Shands at UF and Shands Jacksonville offer unique treatments and care for patients with highly specialized, complex conditions.

Together, UF and Shands are perfectly positioned to be among the first to employ breakthrough therapies, technologies and other advances in medicine to enhance patient care and outcomes.

Last year, Shands contributed more than $5.9 million to the UF College of Medicine to support groundbreaking research in areas including genetics, epidemiology, neuroscience, pediatrics, pathology and diabetes. This funding supported the evaluation of innovative treatments, studies on healthcare delivery and research papers prepared for professional, peer-reviewed medical journals.