North Palm Beach County’s newest hospital opened May 22 in Palm Beach Gardens, with Alan B. Miller Medical Center accepting its first patients.
Hospital executives and staff members, community leaders and members of the public celebrated the site’s opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 29. It is the second acute-care facility operated by Universal Health Services in Palm Beach County, joining Wellington Regional Medical Center.
Miller was previously set to open May 19, but a hospital spokesperson said the medical center was awaiting final approvals.
Where is the hospital located?
The seven-story, 356,000-square foot hospital is at 13655 Pasteur Boulevard in the Alton community, just off Interstate 95 south of Donald Ross Road. It is one of three medical centers within 8 miles of each other in northern Palm Beach County, along with Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens.
It received unanimous support from the Palm Beach Gardens City Council in a January 2023 vote. It is one of the first hospitals to be constructed in South Florida since Gov. Ron DeSantis removed a requirement that new acute-care hospitals receive approval through the state’s Certificate of Need program.
What services will the hospital provide?
The hospital’s services will include emergency care, orthopedics, surgeries, labor and delivery, neonatal intensive care, oncology and cardiovascular and neurosurgical care. Hospital officials say the focus will be to provide acute short-term care.
The hospital will feature 156 private patient rooms, including six suites. In addition, its 34-acre campus will be home to medical office buildings that will provide outpatient services.
The hospital will also have a helistop that can be used transfer patients to a trauma facility.
Who is Alan B. Miller?
The hospital is named after Alan B. Miller, Universal Health Services’ founder and former CEO.
Miller, 88, founded Universal in 1979 and served as the company’s CEO for four decades before retiring in 2021. He remains the company’s executive chairman. He attended the April 29 ribbon-cutting ceremony for the hospital that bears his name.
“This is a remarkable day for me and my family,” he said. “I got into the hospital business to help people. I never intended to be the biggest; I always wanted to be the best. I want our hospitals to treat patients the way I would want my own family treated — and I am confident the Alan B. Miller Medical Center team will deliver on that promise.”
It is the second Universal medical facility named after a person. The other facility, Chris Kyle Patriot Hospital, is in Anchorage, Alaska. The behavioral health hospital is named for the decorated U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, who died in 2013 after being shot by a former U.S. Marine suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Julius Whigham II covers northern Palm Beach County and public safety for The Palm Beach Post. You can reach him at jwhigham@pbpost.com and follow him on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, at @JuliusWhigham. Help support our work: Subscribe today.
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