Medical Specialty Care in Miami-Fort Lauderdale
Miami-Dade and Broward's hospital systems hold designations that aren't duplicated everywhere in the region — Jackson Memorial's Ryder Trauma Center as Miami-Dade County's only Level I adult and pediatric trauma center, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center as South Florida's only National Cancer Institute–designated cancer center, and Nicklaus Children's Hospital's 17th consecutive year on U.S. News's national children's-hospital rankings.
Jackson Memorial Hospital & Ryder Trauma Center
Jackson Memorial Hospital, flagship of the publicly owned Jackson Health System and the primary teaching hospital for the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, houses the Ryder Trauma Center — Miami-Dade County's only Level I adult and pediatric trauma center, serving Florida's most populous county.
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of UHealth—the University of Miami Health System, is South Florida's only cancer center holding a National Cancer Institute designation, a distinction reserved for a small number of centers nationwide and reaffirmed by NCI review in 2024.
Nicklaus Children's Hospital
Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami has ranked among U.S. News & World Report's top children's hospitals nationally for 17 consecutive years, with 2025-26 rankings across seven specialties including neurology & neurosurgery and urology, plus campuses reaching into Fort Lauderdale and Coral Springs.
Baptist Health South Florida
Baptist Health South Florida earned 63 U.S. News & World Report recognitions across 33 specialties in the 2026-2027 rankings, keeping the not-for-profit system atop South Florida's most-awarded healthcare list for a 16th consecutive year, with its Brain & Spine, Cancer, and Heart & Vascular programs ranked in the nation's top 10%.
Memorial Healthcare System & Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital
Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, flagship of the publicly owned Memorial Healthcare System, is a Level I trauma center connected by skyway to Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital — a freestanding pediatric hospital with its own Level IV neonatal intensive care unit directly across the street.
Broward Health Medical Center
Broward Health Medical Center, flagship hospital of the publicly owned Broward Health system in Fort Lauderdale, holds Level I trauma verification from the American College of Surgeons — one of the designations separating a full trauma program from a standard emergency department.
Cleveland Clinic Florida (Weston)
Cleveland Clinic's Weston hospital passed 2,000 organ transplants in 2024 across heart, liver, kidney, and lung programs — an academic-medical-center-caliber transplant service inside a Broward County hospital rather than a satellite clinic.