Jackson Health System's 2015 Report to the Community.
2015 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY
For more than half a century, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has worked in tandem with Jackson Health System to provide world-class medical care to patients from South Florida and around the globe. Nearly 90 percent of the physicians practicing at Jackson Memorial Hospital are faculty members of the medical school – doctors who are training the doctors of tomorrow.
This unique relationship offers patients access to up-to-the-minute, breakthrough treatments and the world-renowned physician-scientists involved in the development of these innovations. It also gives our patients access to clinical trials that test new treatments or new approaches to existing therapies.
The pediatric stem cell transplant unit, located at Holtz Children's Hospital, epitomizes Jackson's long-standing collaboration with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Here, patients from alex's place at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center receive coordinated care for leukemia and other blood diseases. It is the only program in the region continuously accredited by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT).