The University of Miami changed the face of modern health care in South Florida when it purchased Cedars Medical Center in late 2007. The 560-bed facility was renamed University of Miami Hospital and became the region’s first university-owned, multi-specialty, acute care hospital and the flagship facility of UHealth – University of Miami Health System.

Today at University of Miami hospital, physicians on the faculty of the Miller School of Medicine partner with community physicians to plan and provide care, investigate new treatments still in the clinical research phase, and utilize the most advanced technologies available. And that’s only the beginning.

Inspired by the leadership of the University of Miami’s president and former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, UHealth has taken a pioneering role towards making the nation’s health care system safer. Our team had made University of Miami Hospital one of the safest hospitals in the nation.