The Cleveland Clinic is deservedly known as one of the world's most prestigious health institutions, a place where the future of medicine is evolving each day. In South Florida the Cleveland Clinic is a powerful presence, with a fully-integrated campus near Fort Lauderdale as well as a satellite location in Palm Beach. As in Cleveland and throughout the world, the Cleveland Clinic in Florida is distinguished by its unique “group practice” model of medicine, and is consistently recognized for raising the bar in quality patient care.

As a nationally recognized medical research and teaching hospital, Mount Sinai Medical Center has been synonymous with exceptional care in the Miami region since 1949. This landmark institution, with three campuses and 955 licensed beds, reinforces its reputation every day through a culture of advanced, patient-centered care.

As part of Health Management Associates (HMA's) national hospital network, Physicians Regional Healthcare System is a two-hospital system based in Naples, Florida. Acquired by HMA in 2006, it has earned the trust of Naples residents with a team of outstanding clinicians and evidence-based programs—as well as integrated centers of excellence—that have garnered national recognition.

Southeast Georgia Health System is the dominant healthcare provider for an eight-county region between Savannah, Georgia and Jacksonville, Florida. With two hospital campuses as well as dozens of ancillary facilities ranging from physician practices to long-term care centers, the not-for-profit Health System has developed a reputation as the area's leading corporate citizen and a model for public hospitals and health systems throughout the country.

VITAS leads the field in hospice and palliative care with 46 programs in 15 states and the District of Columbia. It is an acknowledged pacesetter, having helped pioneer the modern hospice movement. Today, VITAS employs 9,000 professionals who care for terminally ill patients daily—primarily in homes, but also in the company's inpatient hospice units as well as in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living communities/residential care facilities.