Jackson General Hospital history

With $279.3 million in net revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30 1998, the system, called West Tennessee Healthcare, Inc., is by most accounts successful.

In October 2001, the United States Army selects Ryder Trauma as its only national Army Trauma Training Center in order to enhance the clinical skills and experience of its Forward Surgical Teams before being deployed for combat.

It was the first time Jackson produced a surplus since 2006, and the system has earned an annual surplus every year since.

South Wing 8 at Jackson Memorial, the Pediatric Emergency Room at Holtz Children’s Hospital, and the Mental Health Unit at Jackson South Medical Center received awards from Professional Research Consultants, Inc., also known as PRC, for receiving high patient satisfaction scores in 2008.

On August 3, 2012, Ryder Trauma Center celebrates its 20th anniversary.

The Miami Transplant Institute’s abdominal transplant program (kidney, liver, pancreas, and intestine) performed more transplants than any other center in the United States in the first three months of 2014.

Holtz Children’s Hospital at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center is among the nation’s top children’s hospitals, according to the United States News & World Report 2015-16 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings.