Healthcare Industry in Miami

The Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall metropolitan division had 229,600 Education and Health Services jobs in August 2026, a preliminary Bureau of Labor Statistics count that is 2.0 percent above August 2025.

BLS reports health care together with education in this series for the division, so the total is a ceiling for hospital and clinic payrolls rather than a pure healthcare count (BLS, Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall Economy at a Glance). The same table shows 1,349,400 total nonfarm jobs in the division in August 2026, also preliminary, so the education and health group holds roughly one job in six.

Education and health employment in the division was above the prior year in every month of the table, which sets it apart from the division's finance sector, where BLS counts fewer jobs than a year earlier over the same months (BLS). Because the series is not seasonally adjusted, the July 2026 dip says little on its own, and the year-over-year column is the better guide to the trend.

The Miami-Dade Beacon Council, an economic development group, uses a wider frame for its life sciences and healthcare target industry: it lists more than 100,000 jobs, more than 1,000 companies and an average salary of $65,474 (Miami-Dade Beacon Council). The page gives no year for those figures.

By their own published counts, Baptist Health South Florida has more than 30,000 employees across four counties and Jackson Health System has more than 15,000 full-time employees.

Baptist Health describes itself as the largest healthcare organization in the region, with 12 hospitals, more than 30,000 employees, 4,500 physicians and 200 outpatient centers, urgent care facilities and physician practices spanning Miami-Dade, Monroe, Broward and Palm Beach counties (Baptist Health South Florida). Those totals cover four counties, not Miami alone.

Jackson Health System lists seven hospitals, more than 2,600 beds and more than 15,000 full-time employees, and names Miami-Dade County as its service area (Jackson Health System). The same page's FAQ says Jackson operates six hospitals, so the system's own hospital count differs within one page as of October 15, 2026. The University of Miami's health system, UHealth, runs University of Miami Hospital and nearly two dozen outpatient facilities, including The Lennar Foundation Medical Center in Coral Gables (University of Miami Miller School of Medicine).

Baptist Health lists 786-596-2000 for appointment requests (Baptist Health South Florida). For job seekers, the practical point is that the two systems differ in kind: Jackson is a public system serving Miami-Dade County, while Baptist's 12 hospitals and outpatient network span Miami-Dade, Monroe, Broward and Palm Beach counties.

These counts come from the systems themselves and use different measures, full-time employees in one case and all employees in another, so they rank the employers only roughly. No official Miami-Dade source fetched for this page publishes a ranked list of healthcare employers.

Jackson Health System is a nonprofit, tax-assisted public health system governed by the Public Health Trust, a team of citizen volunteers acting on behalf of the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners.

Jackson traces its start to June 25, 1918, when the new Miami City Hospital, now Jackson Memorial Hospital, opened its doors; that first building, now called the Alamo Building, stands at the center of the downtown medical campus (Jackson Health System). Jackson lists its headquarters at 1611 NW 12th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136, with a main phone of 305-585-1111, and gives the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine as its academic affiliate since 1952 (Jackson Health System AI information page).

Beyond the Jackson Memorial campus, the system runs community hospitals across the county: Jackson North Medical Center, Jackson South Medical Center in South Miami-Dade and Jackson West Medical Center in Doral, which Jackson says opened in 2021 as the first hospital in Doral (Jackson Health System). Jackson's AI information page also states that Jackson Health System and the University of Miami are separate organizations, although the Miller School is Jackson's academic affiliate.

Jackson's emergency rooms follow the same map. The system lists emergency rooms at Jackson Memorial in Miami, which has a new ER entrance, at Jackson West in Doral, at Jackson North and at Jackson South in South Miami-Dade, and it says Jackson South operates a Level II trauma center with access to Ryder Trauma Center resources (Jackson Health System). Jackson also says it runs financial assistance programs for eligible Miami-Dade residents.

One detail on Jackson's own page is inconsistent as of October 15, 2026: the same page places Jackson North in North Miami Beach in its list of hospitals and in North Miami in its list of emergency rooms (Jackson Health System). Anyone heading to Jackson North should confirm the address with the hospital before going.

Three Miami healthcare anchors publish their addresses: Jackson Health System at 1611 NW 12th Avenue, the Miami VA Healthcare System medical center at 1201 Northwest 16th Street and Miami Dade College's Medical Campus at 950 NW 20th St.

The Miami-Dade Beacon Council calls the Miami Health District the second-largest medical district in the United States and says it houses numerous hospitals, research facilities and laboratories (Miami-Dade Beacon Council). That ranking is the Beacon Council's own claim, and its page does not give the district's location or boundaries, so the addresses below come from the institutions themselves.

Jackson's headquarters is at 1611 NW 12th Avenue (Jackson Health System). The Bruce W. Carter VA Medical Center, a federal facility in the Miami VA Healthcare System, is at 1201 Northwest 16th Street, Miami, FL 33125-1624, and lists its facility hours as 24/7 (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs). Miami Dade College's Medical Campus is at 950 NW 20th St., Miami, FL 33127 (Miami Dade College).

A practical tip for visitors to the Miami Dade College Medical Campus: the college says there is no student parking on campus and that a parking garage serves students, faculty, staff and visitors (Miami Dade College).

Miami trains physicians at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, founded in 1952 as Florida's first medical school, and nurses at the Miami Dade College Medical Campus.

The Miller School now includes 21 clinical departments, 6 basic science departments and 45 centers and institutes, and its health system, UHealth, includes Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (University of Miami Miller School of Medicine). UHealth names Jackson Memorial Hospital, Holtz Children's Hospital and the Miami VA as its affiliates, which ties the medical school to both the county's public system and the federal veterans hospital in Miami.

Miami Dade College says its Benjamin Leon School of Nursing has trained more than half of Miami-Dade County's nurses, and the Medical Campus also runs a School of Health Sciences offering bachelor's, associate and certificate programs (Miami Dade College). The campus lists 305-237-9100 for registration and 305-237-4141 for advisement.

The Miami-Dade Beacon Council says Greater Miami has more than 1,000 life science companies and estimates more than $4 billion in annual sales from bioscience firms in South Florida.

The same Beacon Council page gives two different workforce figures for the sector, 100k+ jobs in its headline numbers and more than 186,000 industry employees in its text, and dates neither (Miami-Dade Beacon Council). Those are the Beacon Council's own figures; the BLS table for the Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall division does not break out a life sciences category (BLS).

For a company looking at Miami, the Beacon Council's Life Sciences and Healthcare Advisory Council of local industry experts advises its staff, and the Beacon Council lists its office at 80 SW 8th St Unit 2400, Miami, phone 305-579-1300 (Miami-Dade Beacon Council).

Last verified: October 15, 2026, on the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Veterans Affairs, Miami Dade College, University of Miami, Jackson Health System, Baptist Health and Miami-Dade Beacon Council websites.