was expanded to a $400,000, 200-bed hospital due to the deteriorating condition of the county hospital. 1948 - Duval County Hospital became Duval Medical Center (DMC), called the "nation's oldest publicly supported hospital" 1963 - Florida Legislature created the Duval County Hospital Authority to facilitate the construction of a new hospital and manage DMC. 1964 - Duval County medical and governmental leaders successfully lobbied for the passage of a $20-million bond issue. Planning began for a new hospital to double the existing facility. 1966 - Brewster Hospital and School of Nurse Training closed. 1967 - Brewster Hospital moved to Jefferson and W. 8th St., the current location of UF Health Jacksonville, and reopened as the not-for-profit Methodist Hospital. Duval Medical Center, in an effort to combat only 25 percent of its resident physician roles being filled, hired surgeon Dr. Sam Stephenson of Vanderbilt University as the first of 30 notable physician educators on faculty. The program initiated DMC's relationship with the University of Florida College of Medicine, and made DMC one of the first non-university-based hospitals in the nation to employ full-time faculty physicians. 1971 - DMC moved to a new eight-story, $26 million, 485-bed, state-of-the-art medical facility across the street from Methodist Hospital and changed its name to University Hospital. By this time, the physician training program had 118 intern and resident physicians enrolled from 29 countries. In addition, the hospital offered training programs for radiologic technologists and surgical technologists, continuing medical education, and training for nursing students at UF, Florida Junior College and Florida A&M University. 1982 - University Hospital became a private, not-for-profit facility and contracted with the city of Jacksonville to provide care for the uninsured 1983 - University Hospital opened the first Level I trauma center in Florida 1985 - University Hospital was designated an affiliate of the University of Florida. TraumaOne, their helicopter ambulance service, began operations 1988 - Methodist Hospital was renamed Methodist Medical Center(MMC) - University Hospital was designated the Jacksonville campus for the UF Health Science Center 1989 - University Hospital was renamed University Medical Center (UMC) 1999 - UMC and MMC were purchased by Shands HealthCare and merged to become Shands Jacksonville Medical Center 2006 - The University of Florida opened the UF Proton Therapy Institute on the Shands Jacksonville campus 2011 - Shands Jacksonville received Magnet recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center 2013 - Shands Jacksonville Medical Center