The Health District, also known as the Civic Center, is a neighborhood in the city of Miami, Florida. The Health District is bound roughly by Northwest 20th Street and 14th Avenue to the northwest, the Dolphin Expressway and the Miami River to the south and west, and the Midtown Interchange and I-95 to the east.
Miami's Health District with the Midtown Interchange (foreground) and Miami International Airport (background) in June 2010
Jackson Memorial Hospital, the primary teaching hospital for the University of Miami's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and the largest hospital in the United States with 1,547 beds
The University of Miami's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine campus in the Health District in July 2016
Halissee Hall, built in 1912
The Dolphin East-West Expressway is a 15.4-mile (24.8 km) freeway, with the westernmost 14 miles (23 km) as an all-electronic tollway signed as State Road 836, and the easternmost 1.292 miles (2.079 km) between Interstate 95 (I-95) and SR A1A cosigned as Interstate 395 (I-395).
Dolphin Expressway (SR 836) eastbound with Downtown Miami in the background
I-395 spur heading east past Downtown Miami
Signage denoting the current western terminus of the Dolphin Expressway, right above an all electronic toll gantry