The Health District, also known as the Civic Center, is a

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in the city of

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, Florida. The Health District is bound roughly by Northwest 20th Street and 14th Avenue to the northwest, the Dolphin Expressway and the Miami River to the south and west, and the Midtown Interchange and

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to the east. The Health District has the country's largest concentration of medical and research facilities after

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. The neighborhood is composed primarily of

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, clinics and government offices, and is the center of Miami's growing

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and medical research industry. It is the home of the

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's Miller School of Medicine and the University of Miami's Life Science and Technology Park. The Health District is approximately five minutes north of

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via

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on the Miami Metrorail.

History

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The neighborhood has its roots as a health district with the opening of

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in 1915, with some of the original buildings, such as The Alamo still standing. Today, the Alamo serves an era museum of Jackson's history throughout the years.

is the major

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of Miami, and Jackson's hospital in the Health District is the health system's primary hospital.

Hospitals and research institutes

The Health District is the center of Miami's medical, research and

industries, and as such is home to many of the city's largest hospital systems. The largest is the public hospital,

, which also has two branch hospitals in northern and southern

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. Jackson has affiliations as

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s with the

's Miller School of Medicine since 1952 and more recently with

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's Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Other hospitals include: Miami VA Medical Center, University of Miami Hospital (aka UHealth Tower, previously Cedars Medical Center), and Holtz Children's Hospital. Some of the

in the Health District are: * Bascom Palmer Eye Institute *University of Miami Cytogenetic Lab *

's Miller School of Medicine * Miami Dade College Medical Campus *Batchelor Children's Research Institute *Braman Family Breast Cancer Institute *Center on Aging *Diabetes Research Institute *John T MacDonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics *

Wertheim College of Medicine *Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education *University of Miami Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute *Mailman Center for Child Development *Miami Institute for Human Genomics *Miami Project to Cure Paralysis *Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center *Vascular Biology Institute *William Lehman Injury Research Institute

Transportation

Civic Center is served by Metrobus throughout the area, and by the Miami Metrorail at: * Civic Center station (NW 15th Street and 12th Avenue) * Santa Clara station (NW 20th Street and 12th Avenue) The Health District is served by Civic Center station, a station of the

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system. It connects directly to all the major hospitals and research centers, and connects the district to

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, Dadeland, and

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, as well as to Miami's

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system,

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. In March 2012, the new Miami Trolley system inaugurated its first route which passes through Civic Center on its way to

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Education

Colleges and universities

's Miller School of Medicine, founded in 1952 *

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– Medical Center Campus, opened in 1977 *

– Wertheim College of Medicine (teaching hospital at Jackson), opened in 2006

Historic Civic Center

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, 1900-1924

References

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