Miramar freestanding emergency department has opening date. Here’s what to expect
Memorial Healthcare System wants to make emergency room wait times shorter and serve more patients in Miramar.
To give patients faster access and more convenient care, the Memorial Healthcare System Red Road ER on the corner of Miramar Parkway and Red Road is scheduled to open the week of June 8. Memorial broke ground on the project in April 2025.
“The community that is extending and continuing to grow will have services for adults as well as pediatrics,” Felicia Turnley, CEO of Memorial Hospital Pembroke, told the Miramar News.
This freestanding emergency department is under Pembroke’s purview. The team will bring relief to overrun hospitals in the area and the facility will span 16,800 square feet.
One goal is to get patients from the emergency room to inpatient care or surgery faster.
“It’s seamless for the Memorial patients, that they will see the same quality and safety and service that they see in our hospitals,” Turnley said.
“The Red Road site is going to give access to emergency medical services to the Miramar community that has not really been present,” said Dr. Louis Jane, emergency medical director for the new facility.
In this area, the closest emergency rooms are 3 miles from the Red Road location — HCA and Memorial — but they are even further from parts of Historic Miramar and northern Miami-Dade, which Memorial also serves.
“In South Florida, emergency visits are on the rise,” Jane said.
Broward hospitals saw more than 1 million emergency visits last year, a number expected to increase in 2026.
Memorial doesn’t want patients to have to travel further and wait longer for emergency care — officials say the main hospitals often reach capacity.
“Because the hospitals are backlogged with higher [severity] patients,” Jane said.
The hospital system plans to build more freestanding emergency departments in an effort to serve beyond Miramar’s population, which is steadily increasing.
“It helps to decompress those larger hospitals,” Turnley said.
Memorial is also replacing its Pembroke Pines 24/7 care center with a freestanding emergency department. Between both facilities, it expects to serve approximately 32,850 annually.
Both will have CT scanning, ultrasound and full lab capabilities.
