MIAMI — As the South Florida population continues to grow, Florida International University (FIU) is developing a $212 million medical center on campus to ensure the region maintains adequate healthcare access.
In collaboration with nonprofit healthcare organization Baptist Health, FIU’s new state-of-the-art Clinical Partnership Medical Center will stand as a 100,000-square-foot hub for medical training, research and education for FIU students, while simultaneously providing direct outpatient clinical services to the community.
In addition to expanding healthcare access, the project also aims to keep graduates employed in the region. Coinciding with the facility’s projected 2028 opening, FIU will debut 22 new graduate residency medical programs to combat the state’s physician shortage. A recent report commissioned by the Florida Safety Net Hospital Alliance and the Florida Hospital Association shows that the state lacks nearly 6,000 traditional primary care specialists and has an additional need for approximately 12,000 specialists. Proposed graduate medical education (GME) programs will target the region’s healthcare supply and demand deficits, including anesthesiology, cardiology and neurology…