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Baptist Health, founded in 1955, is North Florida’s most comprehensive health care system and the area’s only non-profit, mission-driven, locally governed health care provider. Baptist Health has over 200 points of care throughout the Northeast Florida region, including our six award-winning hospitals: Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville, Wolfson Children’s Hospital, Baptist Medical Center Beaches, Baptist Medical Center Clay, Baptist Medical Center Nassau and Baptist Medical Center South. The most preferred health care system in the region, Baptist Health also includes 57 primary care offices, as well as home health, behavioral health, pastoral care, rehabilitation services, occupational health and urgent care. Baptist Health invests more than $250 million annually in social responsibility initiatives, charity care and the cost of uncompensated care. Priorities include children having access to health care, adults having access to quality care, elderly people living independent, fulfilling lives, access to mental health services, maternal and child health and other social determinants of health.



Baptist Neurology Group – highly qualified specialists and subspecialists treating the full range of conditions of the spine, brain and nervous system and helping patients manage progressive diseases such as Parkinson’s, MS and more. Baptist Health has been recognized by US News & World Report as a regional leader in neurology and neurosurgery.



Lyerly Neurosurgery – Florida’s first neurosurgical practice, recognized nationally as pioneers of advanced neurosurgical technologies and minimally invasive spine surgery techniques, and offering leading-edge procedures for the head, neck and spine with specialties including neuro-oncology, deep brain stimulation, robotic-assisted back surgery and cerebrovascular and stroke care. Baptist Health has been recognized by US News & World Report as a regional leader in neurology and neurosurgery.