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Women & Families

Shands Women’s Advantage Program

Our Shands Women’s Advantage Program offers free membership to women throughout north central Florida with events and networking opportunities held in Gainesville, Lake City and Live Oak. The program is designed to enhance women’s health and lifestyles at every age. We offer information and seminars on all aspects of women’s health, including exercise, nutrition, disease management, and family and work topics. Examples of seminar topics during 2009 included sleep apnea; blood pressure; cholesterol; cataracts; breast reconstruction; breast cancer; GERD-heartburn and functional chest pain; heart disease and heart attacks; uterine fibroids; osteoporosis; and gynecological surgeries.

UF Shands Eastside Community Practice in Gainesville

UF faculty physicians at the UF Shands Eastside Community Practice in Gainesville serve children and adults with physical check-ups and immunizations; health screenings; dental exams and treatment; healthcare advice and education; psychological check-ups and therapy; and links with community resources. Last year, the practice offered 430 free health-education programs that reached more than 2,000 people in addition to their patients.

Serving our communities’ health and emergency care needs

Shands HealthCare offers primary and emergency care in all of our hospitals’ communities. In addition to our academic medical centers, we also serve rural communities at our critical-access hospitals, Shands Live Oak and Shands Starke, and at our statutory rural hospital Shands Lake Shore.

Serving the region’s trauma and emergency response needs

Shands HealthCare has two of Florida’s six state designated Level I Trauma Centers. They are located at Shands at UF in Gainesville and at Shands Jacksonville and serve all of northeast and north central Florida. Our Level One Trauma Centers are required to have a full range of specialists available 24 hours a day to treat severely injured patients. Last year, we hosted more than 100 educational outreach programs to raise awareness about trauma prevention.

Our two academic medical centers are equipped to serve as lead hospitals in regional emergencies, such as mass-casualty incidents and natural disasters. Thanks to training and preparation planning throughout the year, our emergency, trauma, nursing and operations teams are ready to jump into action as “first-receivers” in critical emergencies to support the state’s response efforts.

Shands Vista operates the award-winning Partners in Adolescent Lifestyle Support program. PALS provides peer support and therapeutic intervention for at-risk high-school students while enhancing leadership skills for teens.