Jacksonville's first hospital and Florida's first non-military hospital, Duval Hospital and Asylum (later to become University Hospital) is established at the corner of Jessie and Franklin Streets.

1870

George A. Brewster Hospital and School of Nurse Training (later to become Methodist Hospital) opens to care for victims of the Great Fire of Jacksonville.

1901

The Duval County Welfare Board takes control of Duval Hospital, which becomes a tuberculosis sanitarium on Jefferson Street.

1922

The first residency program in the state opens at Duval Hospital.

1925

Duval Hospital is renamed Duval County Hospital.

1926

Duval County Hospital offers the first cancer program in Florida. The facility is renamed Duval Medical Center later that year.

1948

A $20 million bond issue is approved for the construction of University Hospital.

1964

Brewster Hospital moves to Jefferson and Eighth Street, and reopens as the not-for-profit Methodist Hospital.

1967

A new 485-bed facility opens as University Hospital of Jacksonville, across from Methodist Hospital.

1971

University Hospital becomes a private, not-for-profit facility and contracts with the City of Jacksonville to provide indigent care. University Medical Center, Inc., assumes operation of the hospital.

1982

The hospital's trauma center is the first in the state to be granted Level I status.

1983

University Hospital is designated an affiliate of the University of Florida, strengthening the educational relationship of the two entities. The hospital is designated the metropolitan campus for the UF Health Science Center in 1988.

1985

University Hospital is renamed University Medical Center.

1989

Methodist Hospital is renamed Methodist Medical Center.

1993

University Medical Center and Methodist Medical Center merge, forming Shands Jacksonville, an affiliate of the University of Florida and Shands HealthCare.

1999