University of Miami Health System’s flagship hospital delivers leading-edge patient care. South Florida’s only academic medical center is powered by the groundbreaking research of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Offering expertise in more than 100 medical specialties, UHealth is home to the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, U.S. News & World Report‘s No. 1 ranked ophthalmology hospital, a highly ranked “America’s Best Hospitals” leader in neurology/neurosurgery, and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, South Florida’s only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center and one of the 50 top hospitals for cancer. Programs in urology, geriatrics and cardiovascular medicine are also nationally recognized. UHealth recently opened the Kenneth C. Griffin Cancer Research Building, a stunning 12-story, 244,000-square-foot facility with space for patient care and research, advancing discoveries that improve outcomes for patients statewide and beyond. To increase services outside the hospital walls, UHealth SoLé Mia, an AI-powered 370,000-square-foot ambulatory care facility, provides multiple outpatient programs. UHealth is a 2025 “Ambulatory Quality and Accountability Top Performer” by Vizient and received the “Beacon Award for Excellence” in critical care nursing, as well as prestigious Magnet with Distinction nursing recognition status. Among its more than 170 AI initiatives, UHealth uses AI to examine electrocardiogram data to assess heart attack and coronary artery disease risk, monitor colonoscopy intervals, interpret mammograms and identify lung segments from CT scans.
