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MEDICAL<br />

Flagler Hospital is a 335-bed, acute care<br />

hospital that has operated as a notfor-profit<br />

health care institution in St.<br />

Augustine since its founding in 1889.<br />

The independent Leapfrog Group<br />

recently gave Flagler an ‘‘A’’ grade for<br />

patient safety. The hospital is consistent<br />

in gathering high marks for patient<br />

safety. The hospital plans to open a new<br />

outpatient behavioral health clinic for<br />

patients in need of psychiatric services.<br />

Hope Haven Children’s Clinic and Family Center,<br />

founded in 1927, focuses on outpatient<br />

care of children with developmental,<br />

psychological, behavioral or academic<br />

achievement problems. This facility<br />

provides services for children, families<br />

and young adults with special needs.<br />

Hope Haven serves more than 5,000<br />

families each year.<br />

Times-Union file<br />

High School students gather around a state-of-the-art Anatomage table to learn how this<br />

valuable tool assists in teaching in the Mayo Clinic J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver<br />

Simulation Center at Mayo Clinic.<br />

Kindred Hospital North Florida, located in Green<br />

Cove Springs, is an 80-bed fully accredited<br />

long-term acute care facility. The hospital<br />

offers a range of services for medically<br />

complex patients who require continued<br />

care and extended recovery time.<br />

CUSTOMER SERVICE IS OUR PASSION<br />

Boger’s Shoes has been serving <strong>Jacksonville</strong> for<br />

over 50 years. Spanning three generations, our<br />

family owned and operated business is your “go<br />

to” place for all your shoe fitting needs. Customer<br />

service is our passion. Our expertly trained staff is<br />

skilled in the art and science of shoe fitting and has<br />

a comprehensive understanding of the anatomical<br />

and biomechanical needs of the foot.<br />

Comfort is our goal because we all know when<br />

your feet hurt everything does. We have on staff<br />

a board certified and state licensed Pedorthist<br />

to help with any and all prescription needs. You<br />

can expect individual, caring service to each and<br />

everyone. We are not trying to sell, we are trying<br />

to serve by helping you to find comfort and relief<br />

for your tired and aching feet. Boger’s Shoes is<br />

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88 | <strong>2016</strong> DISCOVER JACKSONVILLE<br />

Mayo Clinic in <strong>Jacksonville</strong> was established<br />

in 1986, with a focus on treating complex<br />

conditions and unraveling hard-to-solve<br />

medical problems, pooling the knowledge<br />

of physicians and scientists through<br />

state-of-the-art electronics at its three<br />

locations. Like Mayo’s other locations<br />

in Rochester, Minn., and Scottsdale,<br />

Ariz., the <strong>Jacksonville</strong> site has education<br />

and research arms that complement its<br />

patient-care services. Research is done<br />

in such areas as Parkinson’s disease,<br />

Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy and more.<br />

Mayo has the technologically advanced<br />

da Vinci robot, which allows surgeons to<br />

perform minimally invasive surgeries.<br />

Mayo <strong>Jacksonville</strong> dedicated the first<br />

center in the history of Mayo Clinic<br />

devoted exclusively to cancer research in<br />

February 2004; it has received the National<br />

Cancer Institute’s highest designation as a<br />

comprehensive cancer center. Mayo Clinic<br />

Hospital is the admitting hospital for Mayo<br />

Clinic’s campus in Florida. It has 304 beds<br />

and 22 operating rooms and offers care in<br />

more than 35 adult medical and surgical<br />

specialties. The hospital includes a fullservice<br />

emergency department, open to<br />

everyone. Mayo recently received an ‘‘A’’<br />

grade from Leapfrog Group for hospital<br />

safety.<br />

Memorial Hospital has been serving Northeast<br />

Florida for more than 45 years now. The<br />

hospital is a 418-bed acute care facility<br />

offering a range of services, including 24-<br />

hour emergency care at three different<br />

locations around the <strong>Jacksonville</strong> area.<br />

The hospital also features an accredited<br />

Chest Pain Center, certified Stroke<br />

Center, Heart Center, which treats over<br />

10,000 patients annually, Bone and Joint<br />

Center and Memorial’s maternity center,<br />

Special Beginnings. In November of last<br />

year, Memorial completed an expansion<br />

and renovation to the emergency<br />

facility adding five new private patient<br />

rooms and two additional triage rooms.<br />

Memorial recently received an ‘‘A’’ from<br />

the Leapfrog Group for hospital safety.<br />

Naval Hospital <strong>Jacksonville</strong> is a private medical<br />

treatment facility that provides medical<br />

support to naval forces in Northeast<br />

Florida and Southeast Georgia. The<br />

teaching hospital is the fourth largest in<br />

Navy Medicine — including the main<br />

hospital and five Branch Health Clinics<br />

in Florida and Georgia.<br />

Nemours Children’s Specialty Care, <strong>Jacksonville</strong><br />

is an 11-story clinic on the bank of<br />

the St. Johns River that provides<br />

comprehensive, family-focused care in<br />

more than 30 medical specialties. U.S.<br />

News & World Report named Nemours’<br />

gastroenterology and neurology<br />

programs (partnership with Wolfson<br />

Children’s Hospital, University of Florida<br />

College of Medicine-<strong>Jacksonville</strong> and<br />

Mayo Clinic Florida) among the best<br />

in the country. Nemours <strong>Jacksonville</strong>

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