Baptist Health South Florida is a faith-based not-for-profit healthcare organization and clinical care network in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties.
[2] It began as a single hospital on North Kendall Drive in suburban Miami,[3] and is now the second largest employer in the State of Florida[2] with about 23,000 employees.
It is also the parent of companies like AmSurg Baptist Network Alliance, a subsidiary that purchased a majority stake in Northpoint Surgery Center during 2016.
In December 2016, another one of its affiliates, South Miami Hospital, paid $12 million to settle Medicare fraud charges [20] In 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the fundraising foundation for Baptist Health South Florida sent emails to 3,000 wealthy donors to inform them those who made six-figure financial contributions would be eligible for vaccines at a time when vaccines were in short supply.
When asked by Politico, Baptist Health South Florida refused to divulge how many of the donors were ultimately vaccinated.