Our History

Providing the Medical Care Jupiter Needs Since 1979

Built by the community for the community, Jupiter Medical Center reaches back to December 1956. In the mid-1950s, land that is now Jonathan's Landing and the Jupiter Medical Center campus was part of a retirement community called Salhaven. With 125 rental units, a 34-bed convalescence center and a small outpatient clinic with one ambulance, it became the seed of today's Jupiter Medical Center.

When the retirement community closed in 1971, a consortium led by Dr. George Ford purchased it. They sold 600 acres east of the railroad tracks to Alcoa for Jonathan's Landing and donated the remaining 30-acre parcel for a medical center. The parcel included the original Jupiter Medical Center Home Health and Pavilion buildings. Eventually, through financial encouragement by several residents of Jupiter Island, Jupiter Medical Center was built and opened its doors in 1979.

Growing with the Community

In those early days, the city of Jupiter’s population numbered less than 5,000 and the medical center cared for more than 1,800 patients a year. Today, Jupiter is home to 61,000 residents—and growing rapidly—and Jupiter Medical Center cares for more than 400,000 patients annually.

Jupiter Medical Center is a full-service facility, continuing to lead the way as a private, not-for-profit regional health care organization focused on innovation, collaboration and partnership with the community it serves.

Celebrating 45 Years

Significant Milestones in Jupiter Medical Center History

• 1979 - Jupiter Hospital opens with 156 private rooms

• 1984 - Cardiopulmonary Rehab opens
• 1986 - The Ella Milbank Foshay Cancer Treatment Center opens

• 1996 - 72,000 square foot $38million addition opens with new Emergency Department, new Imaging Services, and new Operating Room
• 1997 - Health & Rehab Center opens with 40 foot indoor heated pool
• 1997 - Women’s Diagnostics Center opens
• 1999 - Bright Beginnings Birthing Suites opens

• 2001 - Expansion of Foshay Cancer Center, second floor addition, first floor renovation
• 2001 - Wound Care Center opens
• 2002 - Outpatient Imaging Center opens
• 2003 - Orthopedic & Spine Center of Excellence opens
• 2007 - JMC established as a Primary Stroke Center
• 2008 - Emergency Room expansion completed

• 2010 - JMC acquires first da Vinci robotic surgery system
• 2010 - Two hyperbaric chambers added to the wound center
• 2010 - Comprehensive Breast Care Program first in Palm Beach and Martin counties to achieve NAPBC accreditation
• 2011 - Cardiac Cath lab opens
• 2012 - Dominick F. & Shirley C. Raso Education Center opens
• 2013 - JMC’s first Urgent Care Center opens
• 2014 - Intraoperative Radiation Therapy for breast cancer implemented
• 2015 - Florence A. De George Pavilion opens, new ortho/spine unit, new OB unit, first floor cafeteria
• 2015 - Margaret W. Niedland Breast Center opens
• 2016 - De George Pediatric Unit opens
• 2017 - Groundbreaking for the Anderson Family Cancer Institute
• 2019 - Mastroianni Family Pediatric ED opens

• 2020 - The Anderson Family Cancer Institute opens
• 2020 - Robson Heart & Vascular Institute opens/launches with cardiac surgery
• 2021 - Structural Heart Program opens
• 2023 - Petrocelli Emergency Center expansion completed with addition of Fast Track Area
• 2024 - Johnny & Terry Gray Surgical Institute opens