Baptist Medical Center Nassau grew from a community hospital that opened in Fernandina Beach in 1942 and moved to its current location on Lime Street in the 1970s. In 1994, Baptist Health acquired the hospital from Nassau County, and began an extensive capital improvement program that significantly enlarged and upgraded its facilities and services. Recent accomplishments include designation as a Magnet Hospital and Certified Chest Pain Center, and completion of a new inpatient building with all private suites. Baptist Nassau is one of three community hospitals in the non-profit Baptist Health system which also includes Baptist Downtown and Wolfson Children’s Hospital, the only pediatric specialty hospital in Northeast Florida. Baptist Medical Center Nassau offers the following services:
* Provides a full spectrum of in- and outpatient services
* 24-hour emergency care to coastal communities in northeast Florida and southeast Georgia.
* Accredited Chest Pain Center
* Earned Magnet™ recognition for excellence in patient care
* offers many advanced services and technologies not typically seen in a community hospital, including 64-slice CT, digital mammography and full-time hospitalist program.
* One of the first community hospitals in the nation to convert to an electronic medical record system.
* The new Berkman Building offers 48 private patient suites including intensive care.
* Baptist Nassau’s maternity department delivers over 450 babies per year.
* Inpatient pediatric care is provided by Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville, our sister hospital in the Baptist Health System, and the only pediatric specialty hospital in the area.
* A medical staff that includes highly trained physicians in 24 different specialties who practice locally, and as part of the Baptist Health System.
* Baptist Nassau has access to many additional specialized physicians, services, and resources when needed.
For more information on Baptist Center Nassau, contact the hospital at (904)321-3500.
