Palmetto General Hospital

Palmetto General Hospital is a for-profit proprietary hospital located in Hialeah, FL, holding CMS certification number 100187. The Miami covers Hialeah-area healthcare news, including major facility changes, regulatory ratings, and service-line developments at Palmetto General Hospital.

As an acute-care hospital, Palmetto General Hospital treats short-term, severe medical conditions including emergencies, surgeries, trauma, and critical illness. The facility operates a 24-hour emergency department.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) assigns Palmetto General Hospital an overall quality rating of 2 out of 5 stars based on its most recent public reporting cycle. The CMS overall rating is a composite of mortality, safety, readmission, patient experience, effectiveness of care, timeliness of care, and efficient imaging measures. The Miami tracks rating changes year-over-year for every hospital in our coverage area; a one-star change typically reflects meaningful shifts in clinical performance.

For Hialeah residents, Palmetto General Hospital is one of the hospital options to weigh when choosing emergency care, surgical care, or specialty services. The Miami regularly reports on hospital expansions, closures, leadership changes, and major regulatory actions affecting Hialeah-area healthcare facilities — including Palmetto General Hospital.

Story tip about Palmetto General Hospital? Email editor@nexcom.media. For more healthcare coverage, visit themiami.org/news. This profile uses public data from the CMS Provider Data Catalog (Hospital General Information dataset) and is updated as CMS releases new reporting cycles.