UF Health now runs hospitals from Gainesville to St. Augustine. Experts disagree on what it means for patients

Nonprofit healthcare system UF Health opened a 99-bed hospital in northern St. Johns County Sept. 22, about 60 miles from its home campus in Gainesville.

UF Health Durbin Park Hospital is the newest hospital in a system that has grown well beyond UF Health Shands Hospital, its first facility. Before the new addition, the UF Health hospital system had six licensed hospitals, about 2,900 beds, more than 280 physician practices and more than 27,000 employees, generating more than $6.5 billion in annual net revenue, according to a UF Health fact sheet for fiscal year 2025-26.

UF Health’s hospitals include Shands in Gainesville, UF Health Jacksonville, UF Health North in Jacksonville, UF Health Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, UF Health Leesburg Hospital and UF Health Spanish Plaines Hospital in The Villages…

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