University of Miami Health System Brings UHealth to Coral Gables Campus

The University of Miami Health System has announced plans for a 200,000-square-foot ambulatory center on the University’s Coral Gables campus that will provide easy access to UHealth’s leading physicians for students, faculty, staff and surrounding communities.

 

The UHealth at Coral Gables facility will deliver premier services of the Miller School of Medicine, including specialty care by the renowned Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, ranked the No. 1 eye hospital in the nation for the past 10 years. The facility will also include urgent care, out-patient surgery, men’s and women’s health, physical therapy, diagnostic imaging, radiation oncology and other UHealth subspecialties.

 

“At UHealth we have been expanding our outreach steadily every year,” said Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D., Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean of the Miller School of Medicine and CEO of UHealth. “The goal is to bring the expertise of our outstanding Miller School physicians and researchers to more patients. Opening this facility gives our students, faculty, staff and our neighbors in Coral Gables and surrounding areas easy access to UHealth’s exceptional care.”

 

The LEED-certified outpatient facility, designed by architects Perkins+Will, will be located at 5550 Ponce de Leon Boulevard, a short walk from the University Metrorail station. The center will be connected to an adjacent 1,000-space parking garage by an air-conditioned bridge.

 

Groundbreaking will take place this summer, and the center is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2016.

 

Future plans include moving the UM Student Health Center from the academic core of the campus to the new UHealth Coral Gables facility. This will give students convenient access to all UM medical specialties.