Health District

Miami’s Health District is the second-largest health district in the United States (behind Houston) and home to the third-largest public hospital and the third-largest teaching hospital in the United States: Jackson Memorial Hospital. Some of the other hospitals and research facilities in the Health District include:

University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Miami’s VA Medical Center
UM Life Science and Technology Park
University of Miami Hospital
Holtz Children’s Hospital
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
UM Cytogenetic Lab
Miami Dade College Medical Campus
Batchelor Children’s Research Institute
Braman Family Breast Cancer Institute
Center on Aging
Diabetes Research Institute
Dr John T MacDonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics
Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education
UM Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute
Mailman Center for Child Development
Miami Institute for Human Genomics
Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Vascular Biology Institute
William Lehman Injury Research Institute

The Health District is located north-west of the Greater Downtown Miami area, between the Miami River to the south and NW 20th Street to the north; and NW 14th Avenue on the west to I-95 on the east side. The Health District is easily accessible at the Miami Metrorail Civic Center station and by Miami’s free trolley system.

Residential neighborhoods in/near the Miami Health District

Spring Gardens
Terrazas Miami condominium
Seybold Pointe condominium
Durham Park
River Run condominium
Serenity on the River condominium
River Landing (under development)

Parks

Sewell Park
Fern Isle Park
Gerry Curtis Park

Residential neighborhoods in/near the Miami Health District

Parks

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