Fort Lauderdale Healthcare Industry

Three hospitals with Fort Lauderdale addresses anchor the city's healthcare industry: Broward Health Medical Center on South Andrews Avenue, Broward Health Imperial Point and Holy Cross Health's main campus, both on North Federal Highway.

Broward Health Medical Center is the big one. Broward Health describes the S. Andrews Ave campus as Fort Lauderdale's largest hospital, with 606 beds, more than 85 years of service and a Level I trauma center (Broward Health Medical Center). Its listed hours are open 24/7, and its Fort Lauderdale address is in ZIP code 33316.

Broward Health Imperial Point is a 204-bed hospital and outpatient center that Broward Health says serves North Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach, with free on-campus parking near the main entrance at 6401 N Federal Highway (Broward Health Imperial Point). Holy Cross Health keeps its main campus at 4725 N. Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale and adds urgent care centers, Holy Cross Medical Group practices and the Holy Cross HealthPlex elsewhere in Broward County (Holy Cross Health).

Fort Lauderdale's public hospitals belong to Broward Health, a public system founded in 1938 and headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, and federal Medicare records list both of its Fort Lauderdale hospitals under hospital district ownership (CMS hospital data).

Broward Health says it ranks among the 10 largest public healthcare systems in the United States and runs four hospitals, two trauma centers and more than 50 health centers and physician practices, and that it was Broward County's first statutory teaching hospital (Broward Health). In that February 2025 announcement Broward Health quoted Christopher Pernicano as chairman of the North Broward Hospital District Board of Commissioners.

Only two of the four Broward Health hospitals are in Fort Lauderdale. The other two are Broward Health North at 201 E. Sample Rd in Deerfield Beach and Broward Health Coral Springs at 3000 Coral Hills Dr, and the system's two freestanding emergency rooms are in Lighthouse Point and on W. Oakland Park Blvd in Sunrise (Broward Health locations).

South of Fort Lauderdale the public system changes. Memorial Healthcare System, which calls itself one of the largest public healthcare systems in the nation, has its flagship Memorial Regional Hospital and Memorial Regional Hospital South in Hollywood (Memorial Healthcare System). The Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance says the region is served by these two public health systems, Broward Health and Memorial (Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance).

The Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Sunrise division had 126.4 thousand education and health services jobs in August 2026, a preliminary BLS figure, 2.6 percent more than a year earlier, and Broward Health alone counts more than 11,000 employees and physicians.

BLS does not split health care from private education in its Fort Lauderdale monthly summary, so this guide uses the combined education and health services group (BLS Economy at a Glance, Fort Lauderdale). In the Fort Lauderdale division, the group stayed above its year earlier level in every month shown, from 0.1 percent in May to 2.6 percent in June and August.

Broward Health calls itself one of the largest employers in Broward County, with more than 11,000 employees and physicians, an operating budget of over $2 billion and over $554 million a year in charity and uncompensated care (Broward Health). Those figures come from the system's own February 2025 announcement, so they describe the whole Broward Health system, not only its Fort Lauderdale hospitals.

The Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance puts healthcare at more than 70,000 direct jobs across the South Florida region, without a year attached (Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance healthcare). Unlike that figure, the BLS series is dated by month and covers education as well as health services.

On February 13, 2025 Broward Health and Memorial Healthcare System announced Better Together, a multi-million-dollar Broward County partnership aimed at primary care, maternal care and food insecurity.

The Broward Health announcement, datelined Fort Lauderdale, lists community partners including the United Way of Broward County, the Community Foundation of Broward, the Health Foundation of South Florida, Feeding South Florida and Broward County (Broward Health). Better Together planned a website and one central phone number for April 2025 to steer adults to primary care close to home, including patients regardless of their ability to pay.

Leadership tied the two Broward County districts together at the time. Shane Strum spoke as President and CEO of Broward Health and Interim CEO of Memorial Healthcare System, and the chairs of both hospital district boards, Christopher Pernicano for the North Broward Hospital District and Elizabeth Justen for the South Broward Hospital District, endorsed the plan (Broward Health announcement). Those titles are as of February 2025; the systems' own leadership pages are the place to confirm who holds each post now.

Federal Medicare records list 18 hospitals in Broward County, and the three with Fort Lauderdale addresses split between public hospital district ownership at the two Broward Health campuses and church-affiliated non-profit ownership at Holy Cross Hospital.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hospital list classifies Broward Health Medical Center and Broward Health Imperial Point as Government, Hospital District or Authority, and Holy Cross Hospital at 4725 N Federal Hwy as Voluntary non-profit, Church (CMS hospital data, Broward County). The same federal list writes the Holy Cross city as Ft Lauderdale, a spelling difference that can hide it in a search for Fort Lauderdale.

One name is misleading: the Fort Lauderdale Behavioral Health Center is a proprietary psychiatric hospital at 5757 N Dixie Hwy, but its address is in Oakland Park, not Fort Lauderdale (CMS). Four Broward County hospitals in the CMS list carry the Memorial name, in Hollywood, Pembroke Pines and Miramar, all marked as hospital district ownership.

Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale lists the widest range, including an adult and pediatric trauma center, a comprehensive stroke center, maternity services and a robotic surgery center, while Imperial Point focuses on surgery, cardiology and orthopedics.

The service directory on the Broward Health Medical Center page names more than 20 specialty and surgical services at the S. Andrews Ave campus, among them a comprehensive cancer center, a joint replacement center, cardiac rehabilitation, imaging, behavioral health, a sleep disorders center, sports medicine and a retail outpatient pharmacy (Broward Health Medical Center). The maternity unit there is branded Maternity Place.

Broward Health Imperial Point lists robotic-assisted surgery, cardiology, orthopedics and sports medicine, gastroenterology, behavioral health and wound care, plus a HeartFlow CT-accredited imaging center, at its North Fort Lauderdale campus (Broward Health Imperial Point). Holy Cross Health in Fort Lauderdale points to residency programs and Global Health and International Services for patients from the Caribbean, Central America, South America and Canada (Holy Cross Health).

For county context, the BLS quarterly census counted 855,401 jobs at 82,218 Broward establishments in March 2026, with an average weekly wage of $1,543 across all industries (BLS county employment and wages in Florida).

Several published Broward County healthcare figures have aged, starting with the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance page, which still lists 2018 highlights and an undated jobs count.

Broward Health's February 2025 announcement put its operating budget at over $2 billion and its yearly charity and uncompensated care at over $554 million, figures dated to that announcement (Broward Health).

The Alliance's healthcare page says Broward Health has served for more than 80 years and lists a 2018 cardiac designation for Broward Health Medical Center among its recent highlights (Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance), while Broward Health's own Fort Lauderdale hospital page now says more than 85 years (Broward Health Medical Center). The operator's page is the current one.

The same Alliance list names Broward Health Weston at 2300 N Commerce Parkway and more than 30 locations; the Broward Health locations directory as of October 15, 2026 lists that address as Broward Health Weston Urgent Care and shows four hospitals, in Fort Lauderdale, Deerfield Beach and Coral Springs, plus freestanding emergency rooms in Lighthouse Point and Sunrise (Broward Health locations). Neither freestanding ER has a Fort Lauderdale address; the Sunrise ER is run as part of Broward Health Medical Center.

Practical tip for Fort Lauderdale: the directory lists an infusion center at Broward Health Medical Center, 1600 S. Andrews Ave, at 954-759-7510, and another infusion center at Imperial Point on N. Federal Hwy (Broward Health locations).