RYDER TRAUMA CENTER AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

901 NORTH WEST 17 ST.
305-585-1152

The Ryder Trauma Center provides resuscitation, diagnostic and medical treatment, emergency surgical intervention, and intensive care to Miami-Dade County's trauma victims. The center also features extensive research and education facilities, administrative and ancillary support space. It is the only adult and pediatric certified Level I trauma center in South Florida.

The Ryder Trauma Center is one of the largest, most comprehensive trauma centers in the world. It is a four-story, 166,000-square-foot building with a helipad on roof. Adjacent to the hospital's Emergency Care Center (ECC), the Ryder Trauma Center replaced the existing 5,000-square-foot trauma unit in the ECC when it opened in 1992.

The focus of the new facility is to lower the preventable death rate by speeding up the delivery of trauma care during the critical time immediately after a traumatic injury. Physicians at the Ryder Trauma Center treat approximately 5,000 patients each year.
The trauma center was named in honor of Ryder System, Inc., a major corporate citizen in South Florida. Ryder is the nation's leading provider of highway logistical services.

The design of the Ryder Trauma Center incorporates state-of-the-art technology with the flexibility to meet the future needs of the community. Expansion of the facility can be accomplished without disruption to existing functions.

• First Floor: 5 resuscitation rooms, a procedures room, 6-bed workup room, X-ray, CT Scan and angiography suites, 6 operating suites,10-bed recovery room
• Second Floor: 20-bed Intensive Care Unit; 5-bed Burn Intensive Care Unit, computerized trauma research center
• Third Floor: 60-bed inpatient step-down trauma care unit
• Fourth Floor: 50-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit