South Florida

How money and medicine are changing healthcare in South Florida

Stories by Miami Herald journalists, with AI summarization

The coverage below focuses on the healthcare economy in South Florida.

Catch up with stories on a major donation, a new cancer hub and maternity ward cutbacks.

This is a rendering of the new five-story 200,000-square-foot cancer center Mount Sinai is planning to open in early 2026 in Miami Beach.

NO. 1: CITADEL CEO KEN GRIFFIN DONATES $15M TO MOUNT SINAI. WHAT IT MEANS FOR PATIENTS

On the fifth floor of the cancer center, patients will receive infusions while looking at Biscayne Bay. | Published July 25, 2025 | Read Full Story by Michelle Marchante

Doctor Christ-Ann Magloire, consults with patient Dominique Gray, who is nine months pregnant at Serenity Holistic OB/GYN Reseach & Wellness Spa in North Miami Beach, Florida on Friday, July 11, 2025. The Haitian-American OB-GYN has helped hundreds of mothers give birth, many at North Shore Medical Center, a North Miami-Dade hospital that for decades provided medical care to the surrounding communities of Little Haiti, North Miami, Miami Shores and El Portal. But North Shore’s labor and delivery unit closed last year, part of its cost-cutting efforts shortly before its owners Steward Health Care System filed for bankruptcy. Now, a year later, Magloire is still running her private practice, but now must send her patients to other hospitals and is no longer able to deliver their babies. By PHOTO BY AL DIAZ

NO. 2: WHY ARE MATERNITY WARDS ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA CLOSING? THERE’S MORE THAN ONE REASON

Many South Floridians are feeling financially squeezed as costs continue to rise. | Published July 31, 2025 | Read Full Story by Michelle Marchante

View of the Irma and Norman Braman Comprehensive Cancer Center, building that is under construction, at the Mount Sinai's, Miami Beach Campus, in Miami, on Friday August 29, 2025. By Pedro Portal

NO. 3: A NEW CANCER HUB IS OPENING IN MIAMI BEACH SOON. HERE’S WHAT PATIENTS CAN EXPECT

Mount Sinai’s new Miami Beach cancer hub is nearly ready. | Published August 30, 2025 | Read Full Story by Michelle Marchante

The summary above was drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division. All stories listed were reported, written and edited by McClatchy journalists.