Jackson Memorial Hospital

In 2015, Jackson Memorial Hospital received one star out of a possible best of five stars according to the Medicare.Gov Hospital Compare survey. In 2007, four University of Miami specialties at Jackson Memorial Hospital were ranked among the best in the country by U.S. News & World Report. The University of Miami Bascom Palmer Eye Institute was ranked as the best ophthalmologic center in the U.S. Jackson Memorial's Ear, Nose and Throat program was ranked 17th-best in the nation, and its digestive disorders and kidney disease programs were ranked 32nd-best in the nation.

JMH is home to Holtz Children's Hospital, which has 254 licensed beds and cares for children—newborn to 21 years old—with everything from common ailments to multi-organ transplants. Holtz was ranked among the top hospitals in treating child kidney disorders.[5]

In 2007,[6] Jackson denied a lesbian, Janice Langbehn, access to her partner of 17 years as she was dying of an aneurysm.[7] Langbehn also claimed that Jackson refused to take medical information about her partner from Langbehn, and ignored a power of attorney sent via fax to the hospital's trauma center.[8]

A lawsuit was filed against the hospital as a result. Jackson stated that, "it has no obligation to allow their patients' visitors nor any obligation whatsoever to their patients’ families, healthcare surrogates, and visitors."[9] The presiding judge, Adalberto Jordan, dismissed the case, stating that Langbehn had no relief under Florida law.[8][10] Jordan found that Langbehn had not been "denied the right to make any medical decision on behalf of" her partner.[8]

Two days after Jackson's announcement, in part as a result of Langbehn's story, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum ordering hospitals receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding to allow patients to decide who can visit them and prohibit discrimination, including sexual orientation and gender identity.[6][11]

• Kazi Mobin-Uddin, who invented the first inferior vena cava filter, trained at Jackson Memorial.
• Jackson Memorial was the site of the death of Arthur McDuffie after his beating at the hands of Dade County Public Safety Department officers following a motorcycle chase in December 1979. The eventual acquittal of officers involved in the beating in May 1980 sparked the Miami race riots, which filled Jackson with hundreds of trauma patients.[12]
• While Bob Marley was flying home from Germany to Jamaica, his vital functions rapidly deteriorated due to already existing cancer. After landing in Miami, Marley was taken to the hospital for immediate medical attention and died there May 11, 1981 at the age of 36. The spread of melanoma to his lungs and brain was ruled the cause of death. His final words were at the hospital to his son Ziggy: "Money can't buy life", he told his son before passing away.
• On February 8, 1997, professional motorcycle stunt rider Corey Scott was pronounced dead at Jackson Memorial Hospital after his motorcycle stunt went horribly wrong at the Miami Orange Bowl. The fatal accident was witnessed by a crowd of thousands and was captured on camera.[13]
• On July 15, 1997, fashion icon Gianni Versace was declared dead at Jackson Memorial Hospital, following a shooting in front of his Ocean Drive mansion, the Casa Casuarina, in Miami Beach.
• The owner of two Subway franchises located inside Jackson Memorial Hospital came up with selling foot-long subs for a lower price at his two stores on the weekends in 2004, to help spur business. It eventually led to the Subway $5 footlong promotion, which was launched nationally in 2008 and became Subway's most successful promotion ever, influencing other businesses.[14]
• On November 27, 2007, former University of Miami and Washington Redskins football player Sean Taylor was declared dead on arrival at Jackson Memorial Hospital after being shot at his Miami-area home.
• In 2010, the hospital appeared in fictional form in the Jeffrey Archer short story, "Where There's a Will", was published in And Thereby Hangs a Tale.
• On May 29, 2011, singer Sean Kingston was taken to the Jackson Memorial Hospital after being involved in a Jet Ski accident with a female passenger. He was discharged on the 24th of June.[15]
• On June 7, 2012, 16-year-old Yasser Lopez made national news when he successfully underwent a delicate three-hour neurosurgical operation to remove a spear that a speargun fired into his skull when it was accidentally discharged during a fishing trip. Three feet of the spear protruded from the wound above his eye socket, and that part had to be specially cut off so he could get a brain CT scan. No major blood vessels were harmed and the only impairments he reported from the incident were amnesia for the period during and around the event, and some sluggishness in a hand.[16][17]
• On July 7, 2021, Martine Moïse, the former first lady of Haiti, was treated at the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, following the assassination of the president.[18]

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