Miami Lakes elected officials including Mayor Michael Pizzi and Councilmembers Tim Daubert and Ceasar Mestre welcomed Promise Healthcare Hospital of Miami to the town during its grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony on May 20 at 14001 N.W. 82 Avenue.
Following the opening ceremony, tours were given of the new $30 million 56,000 square foot and 60-bed built on a land leased from The Graham Companies in Miami Lakes Business Park West.
Promise Healthcare, a leading national long-term acute care (LTAC) hospital company and one of the largest long-term acute care hospital organizations in the country with more than 2,000 staff members and 13 hospitals nationwide, expanded its industry presence to include patients living and working in northern Miami-Dade and southern Broward counties such as Miami Lakes, Hialeah, Palm Springs, Doral, Miramar, Pembroke Pines and Weston. When fully staffed, Promise’s entry in Miami Lakes will create more than 150 new jobs for the surrounding areas.
Corporate and senior management from the new Promise Hospital of Miami were joined by area government and healthcare industry officials, management of surrounding hospitals, physicians and other healthcare professionals and community leaders for the official ribbon-cutting that preceded the first public tours.
“All of us at Promise are both proud and inspired to be joining the Miami-Dade healthcare continuum while also supporting providers in southern Broward County,” said Promise Healthcare CEO Peter R. Baronoff during opening ceremonies. “Known for our clinical ‘quality’ scores that outperform national averages, especially for our successful ventilator weaning program, we look forward to delivering increased specialized healthcare services and collaboration to make the area’s healthcare services second to none.”
Baronoff acknowledged The Graham Companies, Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi and Town Councilmembers “for seeing and embracing Promise’s vision and mission right from the start; both were instrumental in paving the way for development culminating in making three-way history today for Promise, the South Florida healthcare industry and the community-at-large.”
The hospital’s distinctive LTAC environment provides acute medical care and aggressive therapy services for patients with unresolved, acute, or catastrophic illnesses, as well as multi-organ disease processes who require an average length of stay of 25 days or more
Promise specializes in acute respiratory/pulmonary care (including ventilator management and weaning), infectious disease management including long-term IV antibiotics, advanced wound management, complex medical management and treatment for multi-organ failure and post-surgical complications.
Promise Hospital of Miami features all private rooms with 60 telemetry beds for patient monitoring while in rooms or during mobile transport and private showers; 52 medical/surgical beds; an eight-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU), four isolation rooms and a fully outfitted operating room suite with pre- and post-op anesthesia areas and full sterilization capabilities.
The hospital’s Physical and Occupational Therapy Gym features a full kitchen, complete
with working stove, sink and dishwasher and appliances such as a washer and dryer and is designed for therapists to help patients enhance their independence level by training them in cooking, personal hygiene, grooming, and other activities of daily living. It is where patients work to regain strength and endurance as well as interact with other patients to enhance motivation.
Under the direction of board-certified physicians, up to three hours of therapy is provided per patient per day. For more information, admissions, and physician referrals and affiliation, call 786-609-9200 or visit www.promise-miami.com.