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
Links:
- Interactive Map of the Health District from the University of Miami
- The Quiet Emergence of Miami’s Health District
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