Jackson Memorial Hospital , also referred to as Jackson or abbreviated MJMH , is a non-profit , tertiary care hospital , and the primary teaching hospital of the University of Miami 's School of Medicine . As of 2021, it is the largest hospital in the United States by number of beds, according to Becker's Hospital Review .
19-620: JMH may refer to: Hospitals [ edit ] Jackson Memorial Hospital , associated with the University of Miami school of medicine Publications [ edit ] Journal of Mental Health , published bimonthly in the United Kingdom The Journal of Military History , published quarterly by the Society for Military History Journal of Mississippi History, published quarterly by
38-661: A Java harness for building, running, and analysing nano/micro/milli/macro benchmarks written in Java and other languages targeting the JVM. Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title JMH . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JMH&oldid=1148453113 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
57-579: A half-cent sales tax. In 2014, the Public Health Trust received $ 364 million in unrestricted funds from Miami-Dade County. In 2013, Miami-Dade voters approved a separate $ 830 million bond program for major upgrades to the facility. In 2015, Jackson Memorial Hospital received one star out of a possible best of five stars in the Medicare.Gov Hospital Compare survey. In 2007, three University of Miami specialties at Jackson Memorial Hospital were ranked among
76-507: A pediatric ophthalmologist who established the institute's Children's Clinic. The institute was officially opened on January 20, 1962. John Clarkson, a vitreoretinal specialist and surgeon, succeeded Norton in 1991 and chaired the institute until 1996. Richard Parrish, a glaucoma specialist, became the institute's third chairman in 1996 and served for three years. Richard Forster, a cornea and external disease specialist, served as interim chairman from 1999 until 2001. Carmen A. Puliafito ,
95-740: A result of Langbehn's story, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum ordering hospitals receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding to allow patients to decide who can visit them and prohibit discrimination, including sexual orientation and gender identity . • May 26 2012: Ronald Poppo is attacked and maimed by Rudy Eugene in the MacArthur Causeway, Ronald is now blind and has learned to take care of himself and learn to play guitar at Jackson Memorial Hospital. 25°47′29.49″N 80°12′45.27″W / 25.7915250°N 80.2125750°W / 25.7915250; -80.2125750 Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
114-1257: A vitreoretinal specialist and surgeon, was appointed chairman of the institute and medical director of the Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital in July 2001, serving until October 2007. Eduardo C. Alfonso, a cornea and external disease specialist, is Bascom Palmer Eye Institute's present chairman and has served in that capacity since June 2009. The institute provides 24-hour emergency care and is the only community-based ophthalmic care center for indigent and low-income patients Miami-Dade County . Faculty and staff treat patients with most eye disorders and diseases, including: Retina and Vitreous Diseases and Surgery Glaucoma corneal and external diseases Laser Vision Center treatments Neuro-ophthalmology Ophthalmic oncology Ophthalmic plastic and orbital surgery Pediatric ophthalmology Ophthalmic pathology Uveitis Comprehensive ophthalmology 24-hour emergency in Miami Optical services Contact lens service Low vision rehabilitation In 2020, U.S. News & World Report ranked Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
133-608: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jackson Memorial Hospital The hospital is located in Miami 's Health District at 1611 NW 12th Avenue at the Northwest quadrant of Interstate 95 and the Dolphin East-West Expressway , two of metropolitan Miami 's most heavily trafficked highways. The hospital is accessible by Miami Metrorail 's rapid transit system at
152-977: Is the University of Miami School of Medicine 's ophthalmic care, research, and education center. The institute is based in the Health District of Miami , Florida , and has been ranked consistently as the best eye hospital and vision research center in the nation. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute faculty and staff treat patients from around the world at the institute's multi-location facilities, including its flagship location in Miami and at satellite facilities elsewhere in Miami-Dade County , Broward County , Palm Beach County , and Collier County in South Florida . The institute's clinical faculty treats more than 250,000 patients annually, provides 24-hour emergency care, and
171-424: Is the only community-based ophthalmic care center for indigent and low-income patients of Miami-Dade County. Ophthalmology at the University of Miami School of Medicine began in 1955 and attained departmental status in 1959. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute was founded seven years later, on January 20, 1962, by Edward W. D. Norton, a neuro-ophthalmologist , retinal specialist, administrator and professor who joined
190-503: The Civic Center Station stop at 1501 Northwest 12th Avenue in Miami. Jackson Memorial Hospital is the center of a thriving medical campus in Miami's Health District that includes Miami's Veterans Administration Medical Center, the University of Miami Hospital, formerly Cedars of Lebanon Medical Center, and the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine with its vast research affiliates, laboratories, and institutes, including
209-980: The Mississippi Historical Society Journal of Modern History , published by the University of Chicago Press Journal of Mormon History , published quarterly by the Mormon History Association Schools [ edit ] James Madison High School (disambiguation) James Meehan High School , in New South Wales, Australia John Maland High School , in Devon, Alberta, Canada John Marshall High School (disambiguation) Jordan-Matthews High School , in Siler City, North Carolina Science [ edit ] John-Milton-Hagen blood group antigen , protein fixed to cell membrane by GPI linkage Java Microbenchmark Harness ,
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#1732858126297228-399: The University of Miami 's School of Medicine with aspirations of building a regional ophthalmic center in South Florida . The institute was named after Bascom H. Palmer , a Miami ophthalmologist who settled in Miami in the 1920s. The Bascom Palmer Eye Institute's founding five physicians, including Norton, Victor Curtin, the first faculty member, who was hired in 1959 and established
247-576: The Ryder Trauma Center, the only Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma center in Miami-Dade County , the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most populous county in the nation. Jackson Memorial is the centerpiece of the Jackson Health System , owned and operated by Miami-Dade County through the Public Health Trust. The hospital is supported by Miami-Dade County residents through
266-459: The U.S., performing more transplants in 2019 than any U.S. center has ever performed in a single year. It is the only hospital in Florida to perform every kind of organ transplant for both adult and pediatric patients. It is currently the third-largest public hospital and third-largest teaching hospital in the United States . The hospital is a referral center, a magnet for research and home to
285-560: The University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, the University of Miami's Bascom Palmer Eye Institute , the nation's top-rated ophthalmology hospital, the Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital, the Diabetes Research Foundation, the National Parkinson's Foundation , and the University of Miami's Project to Cure Paralysis . Jackson Memorial Hospital's Miami Transplant Institute is the largest transplant center in
304-559: The best in the country by U.S. News & World Report : The University of Miami Bascom Palmer Eye Institute was ranked as the best ophthalmologic center in the nation, Jackson Memorial's Ear, Nose and Throat program was ranked 17th-best in the nation, and its digestive disorders and kidney disease programs were ranked 32nd-best in the nation. Jackson Memorial is home to Holtz Children's Hospital, which has 254 licensed beds and cares for children—newborn to 21 years old—with everything from common ailments to multi-organ transplants. Holtz
323-426: The institute's pathology laboratory and its eye bank, which has provided ophthalmologists with donor eye tissue for more than 30,000 patients since its 1962 founding, J. Lawton Smith, a neuro-ophthalmologist, who created the nation's first post-graduate neuro-ophthalmology course, J. Donald M. Gass , a macular degeneration specialist who developed fluorescein angiography as a diagnostic tool, and John T. Flynn,
342-502: Was filed against the hospital as a result. Jackson stated that "it has no obligation to allow their patients' visitors nor any obligation whatsoever to their patients’ families, healthcare surrogates, and visitors." The presiding judge, Adalberto Jordan , dismissed the case, stating that Langbehn had no relief under Florida law. Jordan found that Langbehn had not been "denied the right to make any medical decision on behalf of" her partner. Two days after Jackson's announcement, in part as
361-413: Was ranked among the top hospitals in treating child kidney disorders. In 2007, Jackson Memorial Hospital denied a lesbian, Janice Langbehn , access to her partner of 17 years as she was dying of an aneurysm . Langbehn also claimed that Jackson refused to take medical information about her partner from Langbehn, and ignored a power of attorney sent via fax to the hospital's trauma center. A lawsuit
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