Jackson Memorial Hospital

Hospital in Florida, U.S.

Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital

Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami in July 2016

Geography
Location| Miami, Health District, Florida, U.S.
Organisation
Care system| Public hospital
Type| Teaching
County-owned and operated
Affiliated university| University of Miami
Florida International University
Ross University School of Medicine
American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine
Services
Emergency department| Level 1 Trauma center
Beds| 1,488[1]
History
Opened| 1918
Links
Website| www.jhsmiami.org
Lists| Hospitals in U.S.

Jackson Memorial Hospital, also referred to as Jackson or abbreviated MJMH, is a non-profit, tertiary care hospital, and the primary teaching hospital of the University of Miami's School of Medicine. As of 2021, it is the largest hospital in the United States by number of beds, according to Becker's Hospital Review.[2]

The hospital is located in Miami's Health District at 1611 NW 12th Avenue at the Northwest quadrant of Interstate 95 and the Dolphin East-West Expressway, two of metropolitan Miami's most heavily trafficked highways. The hospital is accessible by Miami Metrorail's rapid transit system at the Civic Center Station stop at 1501 Northwest 12th Avenue in Miami.

Jackson Memorial Hospital is the center of a thriving medical campus in Miami's Health District that includes Miami's Veterans Administration Medical Center, the University of Miami Hospital (UHealth Tower), and the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine with its vast research affiliates, laboratories, and institutes, including the University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, the University of Miami's Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, the nation's top-rated ophthalmology hospital,[3] the Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital, the Diabetes Research Foundation, the National Parkinson's Foundation, and the University of Miami's Project to Cure Paralysis.

Jackson Memorial Hospital's Miami Transplant Institute is the largest transplant center in the U.S., performing more transplants in 2019 than any U.S. center has ever performed in a single year.[4] It is the only hospital in Florida to perform every kind of organ transplant for both adult and pediatric patients.[5]

It is currently the third-largest public hospital and third-largest teaching hospital in the United States. The hospital is a referral center, a magnet for research and home to the Ryder Trauma Center, the only Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma center in Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most populous county in the nation.[citation needed]

Jackson Memorial is the centerpiece of the Jackson Health System, owned and operated by Miami-Dade County through the Public Health Trust. The hospital is supported by Miami-Dade County residents through a half-cent sales tax. In 2014, the Public Health Trust received $364 million in unrestricted funds from Miami-Dade County. In 2013, Miami-Dade voters approved a separate $830 million bond program for major upgrades to the facility.[citation needed]

## Rankings and awards

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In 2015, Jackson Memorial Hospital received one star out of a possible best of five stars in the Medicare.Gov Hospital Compare survey.[citation needed] In 2007, three University of Miami specialties[clarification needed] at Jackson Memorial Hospital were ranked among the best in the country by U.S. News & World Report: The University of Miami Bascom Palmer Eye Institute was ranked as the best ophthalmologic center in the nation, Jackson Memorial's Ear, Nose and Throat program was ranked 17th-best in the nation, and its digestive disorders and kidney disease programs were ranked 32nd-best in the nation.

Jackson Memorial is home to Holtz Children's Hospital, which has 254 licensed beds and cares for children—newborn to 21 years old—with everything from common ailments to multi-organ transplants. Holtz was ranked among the top hospitals in treating child kidney disorders.[6]

## Denial of partner access

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Main article: Janice Langbehn

In 2007,[7] Jackson Memorial Hospital denied a lesbian, Janice Langbehn, access to her partner of 17 years as she was dying of an aneurysm.[8] Langbehn also claimed that Jackson refused to take medical information about her partner from Langbehn, and ignored a power of attorney sent via fax to the hospital's trauma center.[9]

A lawsuit was filed against the hospital as a result. Jackson stated that "it has no obligation to allow their patients' visitors nor any obligation whatsoever to their patients’ families, healthcare surrogates, and visitors."[10] The presiding judge, Adalberto Jordan, dismissed the case, stating that Langbehn had no relief under Florida law.[9][11] Jordan found that Langbehn had not been "denied the right to make any medical decision on behalf of" her partner.[9]

Two days after Jackson's announcement, in part as a result of Langbehn's story, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum ordering hospitals receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding to allow patients to decide who can visit them and prohibit discrimination, including sexual orientation and gender identity.[7][12]

## Notable events

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* In 2004, the owner of two Subway franchises located inside Jackson Memorial Hospital came up with selling foot-long subs for a lower price at his two stores on the weekends to help spur business. It eventually led to the Subway $5 footlong promotion, which was launched nationally in 2008 and became Subway's most successful promotion ever, influencing other businesses.[13]
* On June 7, 2012, 16-year-old Yasser Lopez made national news when he successfully underwent a delicate three-hour neurosurgical operation to remove a spear that a speargun fired into his skull when it was accidentally discharged during a fishing trip. Three feet of the spear protruded from the wound above his eye socket, and that part had to be specially cut off so he could get a brain CT scan. No major blood vessels were harmed and the only impairments he reported from the incident were amnesia for the period during and around the event, and some sluggishness in a hand.[14][15]

## Notable patients

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### Births

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* July 1, 1945: Singer Debbie Harry was born at the hospital. Her birth name was Angela Trimble, and she was given up for adoption, eventually being adopted in New Jersey at the age of six months. [16]

### Deaths

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* May 11, 1981: Reggae icon Bob Marley died at the hospital at the age of 36. He was in the process of flying home to Jamaica from Germany when his vital signs rapidly deteriorated due to previously diagnosed cancer. After landing at Miami International Airport, Marley was taken to the hospital for immediate medical attention. The spread of melanoma to his lungs and brain was ruled the cause of death. His final words, uttered at the hospital to his son Ziggy, were: "Money can't buy life."[17]
* February 8, 1997: Professional motorcycle stunt rider Corey Scott was pronounced dead at Jackson Memorial Hospital after his motorcycle stunt went horribly wrong at the Miami Orange Bowl. The fatal accident was witnessed by a crowd of thousands and was captured on camera.[18]
* July 15, 1997: Fashion icon Gianni Versace was declared dead at Jackson Memorial Hospital after being shot in front of Casa Casuarina, his Ocean Drive mansion, in Miami Beach.[19]
* November 27, 2007: Former University of Miami and Washington Redskins football player Sean Taylor was declared dead on arrival at Jackson Memorial Hospital after being shot at his Miami-area home.[20][21]
* October 10, 2024: Cuban Reggaeton singer El Taiger died of a gunshot wound.[22]

### Hospitalizations

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* May 29, 2011: Rapper Sean Kingston was taken to the Jackson Memorial Hospital after being involved in a jet ski accident with a female passenger. He was discharged on June 24.[23]
* July 7, 2021: Martine Moïse, the former first lady of Haiti, was treated at the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, following the assassination of the president, her husband.[24]

• May 26, 2012: Ronald Poppo is attacked and maimed by Rudy Eugene in the MacArthur Causeway, Ronald is now blind and has learned to take care of himself and learn to play guitar at Jackson Memorial Hospital. [citation needed]

## Notable physicians

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* Kazi Mobin-Uddin, who invented the first inferior vena cava filter, trained at Jackson Memorial Hospital.[citation needed]

## In popular culture

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* In 2010, the hospital appeared in Jeffrey Archer's short story, "Where There's a Will", published in And Thereby Hangs a Tale.[citation needed]

## References

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1. ^ Erickson, Chris (January 6, 2023). "Largest Hospitals in Florida". Tampa Bay Business Journal. Retrieved July 20, 2023.
2. ^ "100 of the largest hospitals and health systems in America | 2021". March 23, 2022.
3. ^ "Ophthalmology" at "Best Hospitals," U.S. News & World Report]
4. ^ "In Record-Setting Year, Miami Organ Transplant Hub Performed Most Transplants in US". Miami Herald.
5. ^ "Build Advanced - OPTN". optn.transplant.hrsa.gov.
6. ^ "Holtz Children's Hospital Ranked among the Best Children's Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report". Jackson Memorial Medical Center. June 2009. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
7. ^ a b Sheryl Gay Stolberg (April 15, 2010). "Obama Widens Medical Rights for Same-Sex Partners". New York Times. Retrieved April 16, 2010.
8. ^ "Lacey woman helped inspire Obama's new visitation rule". KOMO-TV. April 16, 2010. Archived from the original on April 20, 2010. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
9. ^ a b c Fellow, Avery (October 12, 2009). "Judge Says Hospital Can Deny Lesbian Visitation". Courthouse News Service. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
10. ^ "Court asked to reject bid to dismiss lesbian's case against Fla. hospital". Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved February 6, 2009.
11. ^ "Federal Court Dismisses Lambda Legal's Lawsuit Against Jackson Memorial Hospital on Behalf of Deceased Lesbian's Family". Lambda Legal Defense Fund. September 29, 2009. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
12. ^ Christi Parsons and Kathleen Hennessey (April 16, 2010). "Obama orders most hospitals to grant gays visitation rights". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 16, 2010.
13. ^ "The-accidental-hero.HTML: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance". Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
14. ^ "Teen recovering after speared through brain". TelegraphHerald.com. Associated Press. June 20, 2012.
15. ^ "Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com". CNN.
16. ^ Face It, Harry, Debbie, 2019 (Harper Collins)
17. ^ "Manufacturing Bob Marley", The New Yorker, July 17, 2017
18. ^ Staff Reports (February 9, 1997). "MOTORCYCLIST DIES AT SHOW". Sun-Sentinel.com.
19. ^ Janofsky, Michael (July 25, 1997). "Suspect's Suicide Brings Relief and Normality (Published 1997)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
20. ^ Marvez, Alex (November 26, 2007). "Redskins safety Taylor awake, responsive". Fox Sports. Archived from the original on December 1, 2007. Retrieved November 26, 2007.
21. ^ Amy Shipley, Jason La Canfora (November 27, 2007). "Sean Taylor Dies in Miami". Washington Post. Retrieved November 27, 2007.
22. ^ https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/noticias-telemundo/crimen-y-violencia/muere-el-reguetonero-cubano-el-taiger-dias-despues-de-recibir-un-dispa-rcna174906
23. ^ "Sean Kingston 'stable' after jet ski crash", The Guardian, May 31, 2011
24. ^ "Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated in middle-of-the-night attack at his home". Miami Herald. July 7, 2021. Archived from the original on July 7, 2021. Retrieved July 7, 2021.

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