Hialeah has opened a third COVID vaccination site. It’s now for Pfizer and Moderna
By David J. Neal and
Michelle Marchante
Hialeah’s third COVID vaccine site opened Tuesday, a block from its busiest street. Unlike the Babcock and Bucky Dent park sites, Milander Center was going to offer Johnson & Johnson single shots starting Wednesday.
Milander Center, 4800 Palm Ave. Translating Hialeah streets into Miami-Dade street numbering, that’s four blocks east of Northwest 57th Avenue/Red Road and one block south of Northwest 103rd Street.
Gates open at 6:30 a.m. and shots start at 9 a.m.
Which vaccine?
Pfizer, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 13 and 14. Then, Moderna from April 19 through 23.
Are appointments necessary?
Nope. This is a walk-up site.
Who can get vaccinated?
Florida residents 18 or older with either a Florida driver’s license or a state identification card. Tuesday and Wednesday, 16- and-17-year-olds can get it with a parent or legal guardian present and a birth certificate, driver’s license or passport.
Since 1989, David J. Neal’s domain at the Miami Herald has expanded to include writing about Panthers (NHL and FIU), Dolphins, old school animation, food safety, fraud, naughty lawyers, bad doctors and all manner of breaking news. He drinks coladas whole. He does not work Indianapolis 500 Race Day.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
