Inpatient Services

The University of Miami Hospital is a 560 bed facility to which the Divisions faculty admit their private patients and see patients in consultation. The hospital has a busy cardiovascular medicine and surgery program as well as several large state-of- the art intensive care units. The Division has a teaching service at UMH with full time coverage of all patients with an attending and fellow. Continuous as well as intermittent modalities of dialysis are available to care for critically ill patients.

Jackson Memorial Hospital is a 1500 bed acute care hospital operated by the Public Health Trust that provides care to the patients of Miami-Dade County as well as many private patients of the School of Medicine.  The Division provides 12 month per year attending coverage for two consultative services, a transplant service and a Nephrology Medicine team. The hospital is home to the prestigious Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, the Ryder Trauma Unit, the only Burn Center in South Florida, and the UM/JMH solid organ transplantation programs (kidney, pancreas, heart, lung, liver and intestine).

The Miami Veterans Administration Hospital is a 500 bed facility with a Nephrology Section that is part of the Miller School of Medicine Division of Nephrology and Hypertension. The Division has a busy consultative service in the hospital as well as a forty patient chronic dialysis unit.