Civic Center (Miami)

Health District Civic Center
Neighborhood of Miami
View westward of the Health District, with the Midtown Interchange foreground and Miami International Airport right-background
Health District within the City of Miami
Country	United States
State	Florida
County	Miami-Dade County
City	Miami
Government
• City of Miami Commissioner	Richard Dunn
• Miami-Dade Commissioners	Audrey Edmonson
• House of Representatives	Cynthia Stafford (D)
• State Senate	Larcenia Bullard (D)
• U.S. House	Frederica Wilson (D)
Population (2010)
• Total	2,705
• Density	5,565/sq mi (2,149/km2)
Time zone	EST (UTC-05)
ZIP Code	33136
Area code(s)	305, 786

The Health District, also known as the Civic Center, is a neighborhood in the city of Miami, Florida United States. 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.

The Health District has the country's largest concentration of medical and research facilities after Houston. The neighborhood is composed primarily of hospitals, research institutes, clinics and government offices, and is the center of Miami's growing biotechnology and medical research industry. It is the home of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and the UM Life Science and Technology Park. The Health District is approximately five minutes north of Downtown Miami via rapid transit on the Miami Metrorail.

The neighborhood has its roots as a health district with the opening of Jackson Memorial Hospital in 1915, with some of the original buildings, such as "The Alamo" still standing. Today, the Alamo serves an era museum of Jackson's history throughout the years. Jackson Memorial Hospital is the major public hospital of Miami, and Jackson's hospital in the Health District is the health system's primary hospital.