St. Vincent's Medical Center Riverside
| St. Vincent's Medical Center Riverside | |
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| St. Vincent's HealthCare | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 2 Miles south of Downtown Jacksonville, on the west bank of the St. John's River, Jacksonville, Florida, United States |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Private |
| Hospital type | Community |
| Affiliated university | Catholic |
| Services | |
| Beds | 528 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1916 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Florida |
St. Vincent's Medical Center Riverside is a 528-bed full service tertiary care Catholic hospital located in Jacksonville, Florida. It is owned by St. Vincent's HealthCare. Located in the Riverside area, it was launched in 1916 by the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul.
St. Vincent's HealthCare is home to the largest cardiovascular program between Atlanta and Orlando, and the program continues to grow with the recent opening of the Gary & Nancy Chartrand Heart and Vascular Center on the campus at St. Vincent's Medical Center.
Approximately 20,000 cardiovascular procedures are performed for patients each year—including diagnostic and non-invasive testing services, outpatient treatments, interventional procedures and surgeries.
St. Vincent's was the first to perform open heart surgery in Jacksonville and now has the largest open-heart program in the region. Of all adult open-heart surgeries performed at Jacksonville hospitals, 30 percent happen at St. Vincent's.
St. Vincent's Spine & Brain Institute provides care for patients in Northeast Florida who are afflicted with neurological disorders. Within St. Vincent's Spine and Brain Institute, there are two main parts—a neurosurgery division and a neurology division.
The neurosurgery division is for patients with neurological disorders that are best treated with surgery. The neurology division is for patients whose disorders can be treated without surgery.
The St. Vincent’s Mary Virginia Terry Cancer Center is a $20 million, 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m2) facility opened in 2006 that combines cancer services into one conveniently located building adjacent to the medical center.The Cancer Center features a new Radiation Oncology Department with wireless technology and expanded space to improve patient care.
The Walk of Hope is a walkway that incorporates unique features into the Cancer Center, including a boutique and a salon with services especially designed for cancer patients and their families.
St. Vincent's actively participates in a number of ongoing prevention and treatment trials including: the STAR study, the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial, The National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (a national cooperative study with the University of Kentucky), the Gynecologic Oncology Group and various pharmaceutical sponsored studies.
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