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Medical Specialty Care in Jacksonville

Jacksonville is more than a regional hub — Mayo Clinic's Florida campus just cracked the U.S. News national Honor Roll, and UF Health TraumaOne and Wolfson Children's Hospital are the only ACS-verified Level I trauma centers, adult and pediatric, in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia combined.

Every item on this page clears one bar: not commonplace, not everywhere. These are real, named resources with their actual verified designation or certification — not a generic "has a hospital" or "has a gym" list. We left out anything we couldn't independently verify or that didn't clearly clear that bar, the same honesty rule used throughout this site — a shorter, accurate list beats a padded one.
2026-27 U.S. News Honor Roll hospital; Florida's #1-ranked hospital

Mayo Clinic Florida (Jacksonville campus)

Mayo Clinic's Jacksonville campus joined Mayo's Minnesota and Arizona sites on the U.S. News & World Report national Honor Roll for 2026-27 — the first time all three Mayo campuses made the top-20 list together — and was ranked Florida's #1 hospital overall, with top-25-in-the-nation rankings in eight specialties.

NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center (one of three Mayo sites)

Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center

Mayo Clinic's Jacksonville campus is part of the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of the National Cancer Institute's Comprehensive Cancer Center designees — a status held by a small number of cancer programs nationwide — spanning Mayo's Florida, Minnesota, and Arizona locations as a single NCI-designated program.

Source: Mayo Clinic
The only adult Level I trauma center in Northeast Florida/Southeast Georgia

UF Health TraumaOne

UF Health Jacksonville's TraumaOne is verified by the American College of Surgeons as a Level I trauma center — the only one for adults in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia, and just the eighth ACS-verified Level I center in the entire state of Florida.

Source: UF Health
ACS-verified Level I Pediatric Trauma Center

Wolfson Children's Hospital

Wolfson Children's Hospital holds American College of Surgeons verification as a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center and is the region's only state-designated Pediatric Trauma Referral Center, serving as the pediatric trauma hub for Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia.

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