The Health District , also known as Civic Center , is a neighborhood in the city of Miami, Florida USA. The Health District is roughly bound by Northwest 20th Street and 14th Avenue to the northwest, the Dolphin Expressway and the Miami River in the south and west, and Midtown Interchange and I-95 to the east.
The Health District has the largest concentration of medical and research facilities after Houston. This environment consists mainly of hospitals, research institutes, clinics and government offices, and is a growing center of Miami's biotechnology and medical research industry. This is the home of the University of Miami Medical School Leonard M. Miller and the UM Science and Technology Park. The Health District is about five minutes north of Downtown Miami via a fast transit in Miami Metrorail.
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History
This neighborhood is rooted as a health district with the opening of Jackson Memorial Hospital in 1915, with some original buildings, such as "The Alamo" still standing. Today, Alamo serves the history-era Jackson museum throughout the year. Jackson Memorial Hospital is the main public hospital in Miami, and Jackson's hospital in the Health District is the primary hospital of the health system.
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Hospitals and research institutes
The Health District is the center of Miami's medical, research and biotechnology industry, and is thus home to many of the city's largest hospital systems. The largest is a public hospital, Jackson Memorial Hospital, which also has two branch hospitals in north and south Miami-Dade County. Jackson has an affiliation as a teaching hospital with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine since 1952 and recently with the Faculty of Medicine of the International University of Florida Herbert Wertheim. Other hospitals include: Miami VA Medical Center, Miami University Hospital (formerly Cedars Medical Center), and Holtz Children's Hospital.
Some research institutes in the Health District are:
- Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
- Cytogenetic UM Lab
- Miami University Medical School Leonard M. Miller
- Miami Dade College Medical Campus
- The Batchelor Children's Research Institute
- The Braman Family Breast Cancer Institute
- Center of Aging
- Diabetes Research Center
- Dr John T MacDonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Wertheim Florida International
- Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education
- UM Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute
- Mailman Center for Child Development
- The Miami Institute for Human Genomics
- Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
- Comprehensive Cancer Center Sylvester
- Vascular Biology Institute
- William Lehman Injury Research Institute
Transportation
The Civic Center is served by Metrobus in all areas, and by Miami Metrorail at:
- City Center Station (NW 15th Street and 12th Avenue)
- Santa Clara Station (NW 20th Street and 12th Avenue)
The Health District is served by the Civic Center station, a station of Metrorail's fast transit system. It connects directly to all major hospitals and research centers, and connects districts to Downtown Miami, Dadeland, and Hialeah, as well as Miami's commuter train system, Tri-Rail. In March 2012, the new Miami Trolley system inaugurated its first route through the Civic Center on the way to Marlins Park.
Education
Colleges and universities
- The University of Miami - Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, was founded in 1952
- Miami Dade College - Campus Medical Center, opened in 1977
- Florida International University - Wertheim College of Medicine (educational hospital in Jackson), opened in 2006
Historic Civic Center
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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