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West Kendall Baptist Hospital is a nonprofit voluntary hospital located in Miami, FL, holding CMS certification number 100314. The Miami covers Miami-area healthcare news, including major facility changes, regulatory ratings, and service-line developments at West Kendall Baptist Hospital.
As an acute-care hospital, West Kendall Baptist 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 West Kendall Baptist Hospital an overall quality rating of 5 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 Miami residents, West Kendall Baptist 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 Miami-area healthcare facilities — including West Kendall Baptist Hospital.
Story tip about West Kendall Baptist 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.
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Data source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Provider Data Catalog · Hospital General Information dataset (xubh-q36u) · Medicare.gov canonical page ↗. Updated 2026-05-22.