Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami: Address, New ER, Parking and Financial Assistance

Jackson Memorial Hospital is the centerpiece of Miami-Dade County's public Jackson Health System, on Northwest 12th Avenue in Miami, under the Public Health Trust.

Jackson lists the hospital at 1611 N.W. 12th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136, phone 305-585-1111, open 24 hours, and describes it as an accredited, non-profit, tertiary care hospital and the major teaching facility for the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine (Jackson Health System, Jackson Memorial Hospital). The Public Health Trust has held an affiliation agreement with the medical school since 1952, supplemented by an annual operating agreement.

Governance is public. Jackson Health System describes the Public Health Trust as a volunteer citizen board that governs the system for the Miami-Dade County Commission (Jackson Health System, About Us). The federal record agrees on ownership: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services lists facility 100022 at 1611 NW 12th Ave as an acute care hospital with emergency services whose ownership type is Government, Hospital District or Authority (CMS Hospital General Information, facility 100022). CMS files the campus under the name Jackson Health System rather than Jackson Memorial, which matters when looking the hospital up on federal comparison tools.

The hospital's size is stated two ways on its own page: one paragraph gives more than 1,550 licensed beds, another 1,500 licensed beds (Jackson Health System). Both figures sit on the same Jackson page, and both are given here. The institution traces itself to Miami City Hospital, which first took patients on June 25, 1918; that original building, now called the Alamo Building, still stands at the center of the campus (Jackson Health System).

The Jackson Memorial emergency room moved to a new Miami building on Northwest 19th Street, which opened to the public at 7 a.m. on Thursday, April 23, 2026.

Jackson's announcement describes a building of more than 178,000 square feet, double the old footprint, in a $400 million project (Jackson Health System, New Emergency Room Now Open, April 23, 2026). The phone is the main hospital line, 305-585-1111, and the ER is open 24 hours (Jackson Health System, Jackson Memorial Hospital Emergency Room).

The practical point for drivers is the street address. The ER page sends emergency visitors to 1026 N.W. 19th Street, a separate address from the hospital's 1611 N.W. 12th Avenue, with the main parking lot directly across from the new entrance and the Blue Parking Garage on N.W. 20th Street (Jackson Health System).

The Civic Center Metrorail station on Northwest 12th Avenue in Miami is the transit stop for Jackson Memorial, with the hospital entrance just north of the station.

Jackson's directions say to exit Metrorail at Civic Center Station; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center is just south of the station, and the Jackson Memorial entrance is just north of it on the east side of N.W. 12th Avenue (Jackson Health System, Jackson Memorial Hospital). Tri-Rail riders take the train south to the Metrorail transfer station at 79th Street in Hialeah, then ride Metrorail south to Civic Center.

For buses, Jackson refers riders to Miami-Dade County's Metro Bus information line, 305-638-6700, staffed from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. (Jackson Health System).

Jackson Memorial in Miami has five self-parking garages with more than 7,000 spaces, open around the clock, where the first two hours are free and a full day costs $11.

Jackson posts the rates and garage addresses on its Jackson Memorial page (Jackson Health System, Jackson Memorial Hospital). After the free two hours, parking costs $5 to 2.5 hours, $7 to 3 hours, $9 to 3.5 hours and $11 from 3.5 to 24 hours; a lost ticket is also $11.

Weekday valet runs at the main entrance on N.W. 19th Street (Clark Diagnostic Treatment Center) from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., at the Holtz Children's Hospital entrance on N.W. 17th Street from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and at the Lynn Rehabilitation Center off N.W. 12th Avenue from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.; it is closed weekends and holidays (Jackson Health System). Valet costs $12 for up to 2 hours, $16 to 3 hours and $20 for a full day, prices that include 7 percent Florida sales tax and a 15 percent City of Miami parking surcharge. The new ER's valet, by contrast, is listed as available 24 hours (Jackson Health System, Emergency Room).

Families of patients with long stays can ask Guest Services about the extended stay parking program, which Jackson describes as affordable, at 305-585-7341 or in the West Wing Lobby, room 104, open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday (Jackson Health System).

Jackson lists the Ryder Trauma Center, the Miami Burn Center, the Miami Transplant Institute and Holtz Children's Hospital among the units based at Jackson Memorial in Miami.

The location page names, as regional programs on the campus, the Ryder Trauma Center, the Miami Burn Center, a newborn intensive care unit at Holtz Children's Hospital, the Miami Transplant Institute, the Christine E. Lynn Rehabilitation Center and the UHealth Jackson Critical Care Pavilion (Jackson Health System, Jackson Memorial Hospital). Jackson describes Ryder Trauma Center as a Level 1 trauma center in Miami-Dade County.

Beyond the N.W. 12th Avenue campus, the county system Jackson runs takes in three more medical centers, Jackson South, Jackson North and Jackson West, along with a behavioral health hospital, a network of urgent care sites, and two nursing homes for long stays (Jackson Health System, About Us). The same Public Health Trust oversees every one of them.

Chapter 25A of the Miami-Dade County code creates the Public Health Trust as an agency and instrumentality of the county, run by seven unpaid voting trustees who must answer to the County Commission on budget.

The code says the Trust was created under Chapter 73-102, Laws of Florida 1973, as a revocable statutory trust named the Public Health Trust of Miami-Dade County, Florida, and the county can modify its terms (Code of Miami-Dade County, Chapter 25A). Its Board of Trustees has seven voting members, none of them Trust employees, and each must be a U.S. citizen and a permanent resident and qualified elector of Miami-Dade County unless the County Commission waives residency by a two-thirds vote. Trustees post a $100,000 bond with the Clerk of the Commission and serve without compensation.

The code also draws the Jackson Memorial campus on a map. Its designated facilities are Jackson Memorial Hospital and related county property within the area bounded by NW 15 Avenue on the west, NW 20 Street on the north, NW 7 Avenue on the east and NW 14 Street on the south (Code of Miami-Dade County). Regular trustee meetings are held and televised at the main campus of Jackson Memorial Hospital or in the Commission chambers, and the Trust's operating and capital budget request cannot take effect until the Board of County Commissioners approves it. The trustees must also hold a public hearing on that budget request at a special meeting, at the main campus or in the Commission Chambers, where the budget is the only item (Code of Miami-Dade County).

Miami-Dade residents apply through Jackson's financial assessment, which uses proof of county residency, household size and income against the Federal Poverty Guidelines, with sliding fees up to 300 percent.

Jackson's policy page states that anyone in need of critical or emergency care may receive it regardless of financial status or ability to pay (Jackson Health System, Financial Assistance). A county resident who may be eligible sits for an eligibility interview and signs Jackson's charity care application. Four proofs decide the outcome: Miami-Dade County residency, citizenship or immigration status, the number of people in the household, and household gross income measured against the current federal poverty guidelines.

Renewal rules changed. A Jackson Prime card is now renewed only through the online portal, with no office or phone appointment, and the full application is due no later than 15 days ahead of the expiration date; a cardholder who has left Miami-Dade County loses eligibility (Jackson Health System). Jackson also states that a Jackson Prime or Jackson Clinic card does not count as health insurance under the Affordable Care Act and refers questions to its Healthcare Advisors at 305-585-2222. The same section still quotes the 2018 federal tax penalty for going uninsured, a dated figure on a page that otherwise describes the current online renewal process.

Last verified: October 18, 2026, against Jackson Health System pages, Miami-Dade County code Chapter 25A and the federal CMS hospital listing.