Qualified candidates must be credentialed and licensed (as required) health care professional preferred. Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality preferred. Knowledge of hospice operations and performance improvement concepts preferable. Experience with data collection, basic statistics and statistical measurement tools, and data analysis. Excellent interpersonal, communication and facilitation skills. Must be organized and detail oriented. Experience with spreadsheet and word processing programs.
Neighborhoods+Haile Plantation in southwest Gainesville is the neighborhood nurses and families hear first: a 1,700-acre master-planned community of 50-plus micro-neighborhoods, 13 miles of walking paths, Haile Village shops and restaurants, a weekend farmers market, a golf course, and a commute of 30 minutes or less to UF. Duckpond, the oldest residential district near downtown, runs from small early-1900s bungalows to Queen Anne Victorians under a live-oak canopy, walkable to Grove Street, the Thomas Center, and the Gainesville-Hawthorne Trail, with listings that rarely turn over. University Park, just north of campus, has craftsman homes and an easy bike to UF. Locals also name Jonesville and Wilds Plantation, and they often advise avoiding GRU electric-service pockets in favor of Clay Electric; the city reads as northwest, southwest, historic east side, and western new development.
Haile Plantation in southwest Gainesville is the neighborhood nurses and families hear first: a 1,700-acre master-planned community of 50-plus micro-neighborhoods, 13 miles of walking paths, Haile Village shops and restaurants, a weekend farmers market, a golf course, and a commute of 30 minutes or less to UF. Duckpond, the oldest residential district near downtown, runs from small early-1900s bungalows to Queen Anne Victorians under a live-oak canopy, walkable to Grove Street, the Thomas Center, and the Gainesville-Hawthorne Trail, with listings that rarely turn over.
University Park, just north of campus, has craftsman homes and an easy bike to UF. Locals also name Jonesville and Wilds Plantation, and they often advise avoiding GRU electric-service pockets in favor of Clay Electric; the city reads as northwest, southwest, historic east side, and western new development.
Getting around+UF Health and the University of Florida sit at the center of town, and Haile or the neighborhoods around it are repeatedly described as a 30-minute-or-less drive to campus. Relocating guides treat a car as non-negotiable: limited public transportation and traffic are among the most-cited daily frustrations, with no rail spine and no hospital-campus parking picture in these sources. Life is organized by quadrant—northwest, southwest, historic east, and western growth—so shift commutes hinge on which side of town you choose rather than on a frequent bus line.
UF Health and the University of Florida sit at the center of town, and Haile or the neighborhoods around it are repeatedly described as a 30-minute-or-less drive to campus. Relocating guides treat a car as non-negotiable: limited public transportation and traffic are among the most-cited daily frustrations, with no rail spine and no hospital-campus parking picture in these sources.
Life is organized by quadrant—northwest, southwest, historic east, and western growth—so shift commutes hinge on which side of town you choose rather than on a frequent bus line.
Outdoors+Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park is the signature landscape: bison, wild horses, alligators, boardwalks, and an observation tower, with the Gainesville-Hawthorne Trail running through the city and out across the prairie toward Hawthorne. Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park drops 120 feet into a sinkhole; Kanapaha Botanical Gardens holds Florida’s largest public bamboo collection and a seasonal butterfly house; Sweetwater Wetlands Park is the easy urban birding loop; San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park is the mountain-bike and hardwood-hammock hike. Depot Park supplies playground, splash pad, and food trucks, and springs and state parks ring the city year-round.
Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park is the signature landscape: bison, wild horses, alligators, boardwalks, and an observation tower, with the Gainesville-Hawthorne Trail running through the city and out across the prairie toward Hawthorne. Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park drops 120 feet into a sinkhole; Kanapaha Botanical Gardens holds Florida’s largest public bamboo collection and a seasonal butterfly house; Sweetwater Wetlands Park is the easy urban birding loop; San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park is the mountain-bike and hardwood-hammock hike.
Depot Park supplies playground, splash pad, and food trucks, and springs and state parks ring the city year-round.
Check the commute at your shift’s start and end, upfront housing costs, and whether moving assistance must be repaid if you leave.
Living in Gainesville
Gainesville is a University of Florida college town set in North Central Florida hammock and prairie, with UF Health as the gravitational center for nurses and Paynes Prairie, Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, and the Gainesville-Hawthorne Trail as the backyard. Haile Plantation in the southwest is the neighborhood most relocating families name: 1,700 acres, Haile Village shops and a weekend farmers market, top-rated school zones, and a drive of 30 minutes or less to campus. Duckpond offers scarce historic bungalows and Queen Annes under live oaks within a walk of downtown and the Thomas Center; University Park puts craftsman homes on a bike ride to UF. A car is effectively required. Summers run the 90s to over 100 with oppressive humidity; winters are mild. Dinner means Satchels, Dragonfly, or Mildred's; weekends mean Gators football, Hoggetowne Medieval Faire, or the Downtown Festival & Art Show. Cost of living sits a few percent below the national average with no state income tax, but residents warn about property taxes, flood insurance, thin big-city amenities, and student-bar overflow. Jonesville and Clay Electric territory are common west-side workarounds.
