For more than a half-century the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Jackson Memorial Hospital have enjoyed an invaluable affiliation that only promises to grow stronger in the years ahead. UM attending physicians will continue to deliver top care in all specialties at Jackson and a number of programs will remain exclusively at Jackson.

“We have the biggest trauma program in the country and it’s always going to stay at Jackson, as will our solid organ transplant program, which is one of the busiest in the country,” says Alan Livingstone, M.D., professor and chairman of the DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery at the Miller School. “We are also going to be growing our transplant program by building our laparoscopic donor nephrectomy service so we can do more living-related kidney transplants.”

Complex neurosurgery cases, along with the bulk of the orthopaedic spine service, will also remain at Jackson. With the only Level I burn center in all of South Florida, patients requiring such specialized burn treatment will continue to come to Jackson and be seen by UM physicians.

One of the biggest growth areas at Jackson will be in child health. Plans are in the works for the State of Florida to help fund a new pediatric ambulatory care center on the UM/Jackson campus, and Miami-Dade County has given the go-ahead to begin planning for a new tower to expand the Holtz Children’s Hospital.

“Just recently we opened a state-of-the-art pediatric intensive care unit for the sickest children and a new inpatient children’s heart center,” says Steven E. Lipshultz, M.D., chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and associate executive dean for child health at the Miller School of Medicine as well as the chief of staff of the Holtz Children’s Hospital. “Our neonatal intensive care unit is one of the largest in the country, and our neonatologists are among the leaders in the field.

“Jackson Memorial Hospital has been our partner in caring for sick children for more than 50 years, and together we have some of the finest outcomes in the world. That is not about to change.”