The Ryder Trauma Center at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center

901 NORTHWEST 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 center is geared toward lowering the preventable death rate by speeding up the delivery of trauma care during the “golden hour”, the critical 60 minutes after an injury. Jackson Memorial Hospital sees over 8,000 emergency patients per year. Approximately 30 percent of the general admissions result from gunshot wounds, stabbings or falls, and 70 percent are the result of blunt trauma, vehicular accidents, and various other causes. Children make up about 10 percent of all patients seen at the center.

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.