Flagler Hospital is a 335 bed, acute care hospital that has been ranked among the top 5% of all hospitals in the nation for both clinical excellence and patient safety for the past seven consecutive years and was named one of America's 50 Best Hospitals. The hospital has operated as a not-for-profit healthcare institution in St. Augustine, Florida since its founding in 1889. Flagler has earned the Commission on Cancer's Outstanding Achievement Award and was Northeast Florida's first hospital to receive the ANCC Magnet hospital award. In recent years, the hospital has earned accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers, the Gold Seal of Approval™ from The Joint Commission for Primary Stroke Care Centers, Accreditation for Total Kne