Jackson South Community Hospital

On the night of Sunday, October 16, 2022, I had a terrible accident in our home on Duck Key. I fell down a flight of stairs, headfirst, hitting a wall with my forehead. The impact was so great, that I opened a hole on the wall with my head! My wife called fire rescue, and I was airlifted from the Keys to Jackson South Hospital Trauma Unit. I ended up needing 22 stiches on my forehead, and with the C3 & C4 vertebrates fractured. Luckily, I was not paralyzed and didn’t need surgery. I cannot say enough good things about how well I was treated at JSH! From the moment I arrived in the trauma unit, I was immediately attended by the medical staff there. They conducted themselves in a very professional and caring manner. I don’t think I was there even 1 hour, before I was all stitched up, and with CT scan results indicating that I wasn’t going to need surgery on my spine, (which I was very relieved to hear!). I want to commend JSH for providing me with such great care, and for having such a wonderful and professional medical staff. Particularly, I want to recognize a person by the name of Wilson, who treated me with such great care and compassion, (don’t know his last name, and I’m not sure what his position is. He mentioned he was Puerto Rican and spoke perfect Spanish & English). Wilson went out of his way to talk to me and calm me down as he was wheeling me to different units of the hospital.
Thank you JSH for taking such good care of me!

This place admitted my mother 4 or 5 times in the space of three months. They couldn't properly diagnose her; even told her that her illness was all in her head. Finally she got to Homestead hospital where she was diagnosed properly but by that time her body was in such poor shape she died after surgery. I wouldn't take my worst enemy to Jackson South...or maybe I should!