UHealth is hiring as it prepares to top off its new Doral hub

Written by Monica Correa on April 18, 2023

The University of Miami Health System, UHealth, is expanding its medical facilities in Doral, citing greater connectivity to the Greater Miami community, with hundreds of projected new hires, including physicians, nurses, technicians, and support staff.

A new facility at Doral, which is expected to open to patients Sept. 16, 2024, and become the main Doral medical center, would be a six-story, 150,000-square-foot center with 33 exam rooms, 33 CTU (comprehensive treatment unit) chairs, and eight operating rooms.

Miami-Dade County is investing $7.7 million to accommodate this development, according to the university.

The currently leased space – part of the phase one of the Doral project – is an 18,000-square-foot ambulatory center at 8333 NW 53rd St. in downtown Doral, which offers urology services from Desai Sethi Urology Institute, oncology services from Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, and UHealth dermatology. Once the project is built, the center would transfer its operations to the new facility, to be renovated to accommodate an extra 30 exam rooms.

In addition, this expansion would bring 90 new physicians and advanced practice providers, as well as around 300 new jobs that include nurses, technicians, and other support staff, UHealth communications stated. Practice provider recruitment has already begun, and recruitment for the rest of the staff is to begin around September.

In addition, major medical equipment and systems to support operations, including “state of the art technology to support ease of patient care and navigation,” are in the process of being purchased, according to UHealth.

UHealth leaders will be holding a “topping off” ceremony, scheduled for April 26, when the structural frame of the building is set to be completed.

“We’re very excited about this expansion,” said Dr. Roy Weiss, chief medical officer for Ambulatory Services at UHealth. “Doral is one of the fastest-growing cities in the US. Because of its population boom, it’s important for patients to get medical care in their own community, and we are going to be at the heart of this bustling, growing community.”

UHealth at Doral would include services for cardiology, dermatology, gynecology, endocrinology, interventional radiology, orthopedics, surgery, neurology, emergency medicine, and oncology services and care, such as radiation and breast imaging, said Dr. Weiss. “It will be an all-encompassing, total care for anyone who requires care.”

This center will be modeled after UHealth’s current ambulatory center, The Lennar Foundation Medical Center, which is located on the University of Miami grounds in Coral Gables, UHealth communications said. UHealth at Doral will total 178,000 square feet of space between the new building and the existing one.

This project is part of a UHealth expansion planned for several locations throughout South Florida, including Plantation, Kendall, Palm Beach Gardens, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Deerfield, Coral Springs, the upcoming UHealth center at SoLe Mia in North Miami – coming in 2025 – and more.

Last September, UHealth opened its first medical center in Doral as a satellite location within an existing office building.

“We envision what healthcare will be in the next 10 to 20 years,” said Dr. Weiss. “We are going to be able to accommodate all the technologies that patients will need, and will want to have available to them, in this community. We’re planning this iconic building to be responsive to the changing landscape of medical care, not only as it exists now and in the next year, but in a decade or more.”