HEALTH PARK at Avenir
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
About HEALTH PARK at Avenir
Sina Companies is proud to partner with Jupiter Medical Center (JMC) to develop the Health Park at Avenir. JMC will be expanding their excellence in medical care to Palm Beach Garden’s largest & newest development – Avenir. JMC Health will open a 2-story, 50,000 SF state-of-the-art neighborhood hospital with primary care, specialty physicians, and other medical services in the adjacent medical building. For more information from Jupiter Medical Center, click here to download their October 4, 2022 Press Release.
Sina Companies is now Pre-Leasing space in Health Park at Avenir.
Palm Beach County hospital boom: Two new hospitals coming to north, west county
Maya Washburn
Palm Beach Post
August 17, 2025
Hospitals in northern and western Palm Beach County are growing to meet the greater demand that comes with rising populations.
Private hospitals are keeping pace with northern and western Palm Beach County’s population growth, planning two new facilities in the area at a time when hospitals also are pushing outpatient services.
As the market begins to saturate and competition grows sharper, hospitals also are renovating and reinventing, introducing new services and building new wings to secure high-dollar patients.
The surge in hospital growth started about a decade ago, but it has accelerated over the past five years with people moving to Palm Beach County from the Northeast and other parts of the United States following COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns. Many of the newcomers are high-income earners who work remotely.
Another factor is the 2019 retirement of the “certificate of need” requirement for the development of new hospitals in Florida. When Gov. Ron DeSantis ended the requirement, the power to approve most new hospitals transferred from state officials to local governments.
The population boom has turned former empty fields into neighborhoods and the prices at which people are buying homes are surging. Hospitals see fresh opportunities in these growing areas that are home to deeper-pocketed transplants and are responding. Many are introducing new outpatient surgery facilities and freestanding emergency rooms.
“We have always located in areas that we felt were good growth markets,” said Kevin DiLallo, vice president of development for Universal Health Services, the company behind a new hospital rising in Palm Beach Gardens. “We felt that northern Palm Beach County fit very well into something we have looked at for many years.”
New hospital rising in Palm Beach Gardens will be among the largest in the county
Universal Health Services, which owns Wellington Regional Medical Center and an emergency room in Westlake, is aiming to dominate the western and northern parts of the county. The company is building what will soon become one of the largest hospitals in Palm Beach County.
The structure of the seven-story, 120-foot Alan B. Miller Medical Center stands on 34 acres along Pasteur Boulevard in Alton, a neighborhood in Palm Beach Gardens just east of Interstate 95. The $430 million hospital is scheduled to open in March 2026, DiLallo said. Crews enclosed its main building and installed air conditioning at the end of July.
The Alan B. Miller Medical Center will be one of three hospitals, including Jupiter Medical Center and Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, within 8 miles of each other in northern Palm Beach County.
DiLallo said Miller will focus on acute, short-term care. He said Universal is confident the growing region, with high-rise apartments proposed in Lake Park and North Palm Beach and the 4,000-home Avenir community being built in western Palm Beach Gardens, needs a hospital with its size and range of services.
The combination of the end of the state-issued certificate of need requirement plus the expanding communities in the county encouraged Universal to build the new hospital in Palm Beach Gardens.
“With the population boom of Palm Beach (County) and the way they are marketing Palm Beach as ‘Wall Street South’ … I see continued growth in this market for health care, and specifically, high-end health care,” DiLallo said. “That’s what Palm Beach is looking for.”
DiLallo said that when Universal announced its plans for the new hospitals, others nearby started adding more beds. He said that the more competition there is between hospitals, the more each facility will be encouraged to improve their services, which should benefit surrounding communities.
Jupiter Medical Center expands its campus amid growing competition
Jupiter Medical Center is dramatically expanding. Crews are building a 92-bed patient-care tower on its sprawling campus along Old Dixie Highway.
The tower with a floor for oncology care, two orthopedic floors and a cardiac-disease floor is set to open in early 2026, according to Dr. Amit Rastogi, president and chief executive officer of the hospital. The tower will also have simulation labs to train nurses and other staff members.
Crews are also building a five-story parking garage on the campus, which is scheduled to open in December 2025. The hospital also inaugurated a $100 million surgical institute last year.
This fall, Jupiter Medical Center will break ground on a micro-hospital with at least 20 beds at Avenir, a large planned community with thousands of homes off Northlake Boulevard west of Florida’s Turnpike in Palm Beach Gardens. The hospital is an example of the “retailization” of health care services because it will likely attract some people to move to Avenir.
Construction is set to finish in early 2027. The micro-hospital will feature 24-hour emergency services, an operating room and a diagnostic laboratory.
“Jupiter Medical Center is currently undergoing the most transformative period in its history,” wrote Rastogi in a prepared statement. “Within the last several years, the health system added several specialty programs and expanded its physical presence across the region — both on and off its main campus, with a goal to expand access to the highest quality health care.”
Hospital expansions reach all parts of Palm Beach County
Several hospitals in the county are upgrading their facilities, including Tenet Healthcare-owned Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, which is undergoing a $14 million renovation project to improve its efficiency. It is bringing in more robots to help doctors perform surgeries and the 57-year-old hospital is getting a fresh look.
“As the largest and most comprehensive health care provider in the county, the Palm Beach Health Network’s key focus areas are quality, access and innovation,” wrote Maggie Gill, group president of Tenet Healthcare’s East Coast region, in a prepared statement. “The investments we are making today build upon our strong foundation for generations to come.”
Other hospitals in the western and southern reaches of the county are establishing new offices and services to blunt the competition. HCA Florida Palm West Hospital will build a five-story tower along Southern Boulevard near Royal Palm Beach and wants to become a hub for robotics-assisted surgery.
The Health Care District of Palm Beach County, which runs Lakeside Medical Center in Belle Glade, is partnering with Tampa General Hospital to manage the center alongside them. It also points to a growing trend of Palm Beach County hospitals partnering with out-of-town companies.
In recent years, Tampa General has partnered with physician practice groups in Palm Beach County to open 18 medical offices from Palm Beach Gardens to Delray Beach. It is working with Boston’s Mass General Brigham, the teaching hospital system for Harvard Medical School, to build medical offices in Palm Beach Gardens.
Baptist Health South Florida recently opened a new emergency room in suburban Boca Raton and it has plans to open a medical center in Royal Palm Beach in the summer of 2027, according a Baptist Health spokesperson. It is also adding private rooms, updated safety systems and new dining and courtyard amenities at Boca Raton Regional Hospital.
Bethesda Hospital East in Boynton Beach has a new cardiac catheterization lab and the hospital’s emergency department will get a full renovation. In the fall, Baptist Health in Delray Beach will open a new concierge medicine practice, which involves patients paying annual membership fees for quick access to their physician.
West Boca Medical Center, which is owned by Tenet Healthcare, is adding a cardiac catheterization lab in addition to a newly opened obstetrics emergency department. It also has expanded its operating room capacity, a spokesperson said. Delray Medical Center is upgrading its cardiovascular suites and surgical services to support robotic cardiac procedures.
Hospital owners in South Florida need to take advantage of any edge they can get over their competition, said Attila Hertelendy, a Florida International University business professor who studies hospitals.
He said hospitals can stay relevant by investing in the latest health care technology and home or local-based care, like telemedicine and stand-alone emergency rooms.
“The facilities that can really, really think about the future in terms of how they’re integrating current technologies, robotics and AI, are going to be a big game changer for the market,” Hertelendy said. “Many hospitals have not taken advantage of this fully yet.”