To become a patient at Shands HealthCare, you must first register. Once you have registered, you are ready to begin the admissions process.

To help your admissions process go more quickly and smoothly, please view our entire patient information section. This section helps prepare you for your visit to the hospital and gives you information about what to bring and what not to bring to the hospital, what to do before you arrive, visiting hours, and patient safety.

You can also download the pre-admission form online. By filling out this form before you arrive at the hospital, you can save a lot of time and make your admissions process go more quickly.

Each of the Shands hospitals has different admissions procedures. To see the admissions procedures for a specific hospital, please select from below:

• Shands at UF

• Shands Jacksonville

• Shands at AGH

• Shands at Lake Shore

• Shands at Live Oak

• Shands at Starke