** Welcome to Baptist Hospital **
Baptist Hospital is a 492 bed tertiary care hospital, the largest in the Baptist Health Care network. Baptist Hospital provides a full range of medical, surgical and obstetrical services. Specialized critical care is provided by the hospital's emergency center and three intensive care units: coronary, surgical and neurological intensive care.
The BaptistFlight helicopter ambulance is an extension of emergency services, allowing the stabilization and rapid transport of seriously ill or injured patients. The Cancer Institute of Baptist Hospital specializes in diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and support. It also has a strong prevention and early detection component. The Cancer Program is affiliated with several research groups, allowing Baptist Hospital patients to participate in clinical trials.
The Baptist Health Care Behavioral Services provide both hospitalization and outpatient treatment for adults and adolescents. The Behavioral Medicine Center offers intensive and acute psychiatric treatment for inpatients.
Lakeview Center provides counseling for stresses of modern living, a psychiatric treatment, and substance abuse treatment. Our services include individual, group, and family counseling; community support; assistance and employee assistance services/programs.
** Our Mission **
The mission of Baptist Health Care is to provide superior service based on Christian values to improve the quality of life for people and communities served.
** Our Values **
* Integrity
Maintaining the highest standards of behavior. Encompasses honesty, ethics, and doing the right things for the right reasons.
* Vision
The ability and willingness to look forward to the future and make decisions necessary to accomplish important goals.
* Innovation
Capable of extraordinary creativity and willing to explore new approaches to improving quality of life for all persons.
* Superior Service
Committed to providing excellent service and compassionate care.
* Stewardship
Dedicated to responsible stewardship of Baptist Health Care's assets and financial resources, and to community service.
* Teamwork
An Abiding respect for others, and a sustaining commitment to work together.
** Our Vision **
The vision of Baptist Health Care is to be the best health system in America.
History Of Baptist Hospital
* 1950’s
1951 Baptist Hospital opens with 140 beds and a post–operative recovery room, the first in Florida and possibly the second in the United States.
1956 First expansion adds 40 beds
1956 Baptist Hospital begins working with Pensacola Junior College to create the first Associate of Arts nursing program in the southern portion of the United States
1959 A major addition opens, bringing Baptist Hospital’s bed capacity to 325.
* 1960’s
1964 A year of innovation: – An expansion provides space for one of the nation’s first two outpatient surgery centers. – An intensive coronary unit opens, one of the first four ICC units in the United States.
1969 Baptist Hospital acquires the Hillhaven Home and converts it to the Rainwater Specialty Care Center
* 1970’s
1972 Baptist Hospital completes the largest expansion in its history, bringing total bed capacity to 520.
1974 Construction begins on the first medical office building adjoining Baptist Hospital
1975 Baptist Hospital acquires the Mallory House apartments complex to provide housing for older people.
1975 The Baptist Health Care Foundation is established.
1977 LifeFlight helicopter ambulance service is brought to Baptist Hospital, becoming the first hospital–based emergency helicopter program in Florida, the third in the United States.
1977 Baptist Hospital joins other leading health care institutions in chartering Voluntary Hospitals of America as a national cooperative. With more than 800 hospitals, VHA is now the largest health care system in the United States.
1978 Baptist Regional Health Services is created to extend Baptist Hospital’s sophisticated care to smaller hospitals throughout Northwest Florida and South Alabama.
1979 The closing of Jay Hospital is averted when the Baptist Regional Health Services organization leases it from Santa Rosa County.
1979 Pensacola Retirement Village I opens.
* 1980’s
1981 Azalea Trace life care community opens.
1983 Baptist Care Incorporated is formed, encompassing both Baptist Regional Health Services and BCI Enterprises, which includes several for–profit enterprises.
1983 Jim Vickery named President of Baptist Care, Incorporated; Pat Groner becomes President Emeritus.
1983 Home Health Care of Baptist Hospital is created.
1983 Doctor’s Urgent Care Center opens on Davis Highway.
1983 Gulf Coast Health Cooperative launches a mobile CT unit to serve outlying areas.
1983 Mizell Memorial Hospital joins Baptist Care.
1984 Baptist Manor nursing home and Pensacola Retirement Village II opened.
1984 Jay Hospital opens a three–bed intensive care unit.
1984 Construction begins on expansion of Baptist Hospital and construction of Gulf Breeze Hospital.
1985 Gulf Breeze Hospital opens.
1985 SurgiCare outpatient surgical center opens in the Professional Office Building.
1985 MD Line, Pensacola’s first physician referral and appointment service, is launched.
1985–86 Mizell Memorial Hospital undergoes a $2.7 million construction and renovation project that greatly enhanced its facilities although it did not increase its bed count.
1986 Work completed on $12 million expansion to Baptist Hospital that adds 45,000 square feet and includes a new surgical suite with a 16–bed recovery room, state–of–the–art surgical intensive nursing unit, clinical lab, central sterile area, energy center, and greatly enlarged and renovated lobby area.
1986 Swings beds approved and added at Jay Hospital.
1987 Baptist Hospital files first Certificate of Need application for open heart surgery services.
1988 Swing beds approved and added at Mizell Memorial Hospital.
1989 Baptist Care Incorporated is reorganized as Baptist Health Care Corporation.
