Baptist Health Homestead Hospital

Baptist Health Homestead Hospital offers full service medical services including emergency care for adults and children, critical care, and rehabilitation.

With specialized services and compassionate care, Homestead Hospital is a beautiful, big-city hospital nestled in a small, growing community. It houses Baptist Health Rehabilitation, a 23-bed comprehensive medical rehabilitation program and offers Pediatric Emergency Care, among other world class healthcare offerings.

Homestead Hospital has been a part of the south Miami-Dade community since 1940, when local physician James Archer Smith opened it as a 10-bed hospital east of Krome Avenue. Today, Baptist Health Homestead Hospital is a modern, full-service 147-bed facility with private rooms. Services include an Emergency Center with 44 treatment rooms and a trauma room, a separate Children’s Emergency Center, a critical care unit, and comfortably-appointed birthing suites. Homestead Hospital is also home to Baptist Health Rehabilitation, a hospital-based, acute inpatient rehabilitation unit featuring individualized programs for the care of adult and pediatric patients (ages 4 and older) who are facing a critical or disabling injury or illness. In addition, the “Healthy Homestead” vision is to be a community where people prioritize health and well-being. Working with partners in South Dade, the goal is to inspire and empower local residents to improve their nutrition, fitness, and overall understanding of wellness. To assist with this effort, the Grow2Heal garden on campus grows organic food that is served to patients, visitors and staff, and is also used to educate the community through a number of initiatives.

Through shared governance, Baptist Health nurses provide superior evidence-based patient- and family-centered care utilizing a professional model of practice. By embracing leadership, collaboration and service excellence, they demonstrate advocacy and support for staff, patients, families and physicians.

Baptist Health and Nicklaus Children’s Health System are working together to ensure that the children in our community continue to receive the highest quality emergency care. The pediatric emergency physicians at Homestead Hospital are now part of Nicklaus Children’s Pediatric Specialists, the medical group practice of Nicklaus Children’s Health System.

Our physicians will continue to provide the same high-quality, compassionate care you have come to expect. Through this collaboration, they will also have access to the extensive array of pediatric subspecialists on Nicklaus’ medical staff to support your child’s specialized care needs.

Pediatric patients treated in a Baptist Health emergency department and requiring hospital admission will be transferred to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital to receive ongoing care. Homestead Hospital continues to provide neonatal intensive care.

Homestead Hospital’s Grow2Heal garden has been cultivating fresh fruits and vegetables for patients, visitors, employees and local organizations in need since 2014.

Hospital leadership dedicated vacant land adjacent to the hospital to develop an organic – and sustainable – garden as a way to offer the community fresh, nutritious foods with a far-reaching impact.

The Grow2Heal community garden at Homestead Hospital is also a creative solution to ongoing challenges with chronic disease management and preventive healthcare and is used to educate the community through school fieldtrips, health fairs, cooking demonstrations, wellness workshops and support groups.

The fruits of our labor provide people with a bounty of health benefits, including boosting the immune system and managing chronic health issues. We know that good nutrition is important to overall wellness. We are committed to delivering good health, from the ground up.

When your baby is born at a Baptist Health hospital, you can expect a warm, welcoming, highly professional atmosphere. Baptist Health Pregnancy and Childbirth Services offer families a comfortable, relaxing environment in which to welcome their newest family member. Our caring staff takes a patient- and family-centered approach to care, guiding and supporting you throughout the birth experience. To provide you with the best possible childbirth experience, Baptist Health facilities are equipped with advanced technology to ensure excellent medical care for mothers and newborns.

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*Estimated wait times are estimates only and cannot be guaranteed. While your medical condition will be evaluated by a qualified health care professional after your arrival, The estimated wait time indicated is the average estimated time it will take for you to be seen by a treating medical professional (physician, nurse, practitioner or physician assistant.

During your visit at our facility, you may receive services from our facility as well as from other health care providers. You may receive a separate bill from these other health care providers, and they may or may not participate in the same health insurance plans as the facility. You should contact the health care providers who may render services to you for a list of the insurance plans with which they participate. You may also request from the facility and other health care providers a personalized estimate of charges. For a list of health care providers and medical practices who may provide services to you during your visit a Baptist Health facility, click here. 

If you have any questions regarding a separate statement/invoice you received from a health care provider, please contact the specific health care provider’s or group’s billing offices.

If however, you have any questions or concerns directly pertaining to your Baptist Health facility bill, please contact our Patient Financial Services Department at 786-596-6507.