Sending flowers to Baptist Hospital of Miami

Baptist Hospital of Miami is the flagship of Baptist Health South Florida, a not-for-profit system, and sits at 8900 North Kendall Dr. in Miami (Kendall). It is a big tertiary hospital: the Miami Cancer Institute and the Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute are both on this campus, and it runs a Level 3 NICU. It was also the first hospital in Florida to earn Magnet recognition for nursing.

Before you order anything, know this: the hospital's page does not publish a rule on fresh flowers in patient rooms. So the safest route is a short call to the main line at (786) 596-1960 to ask whether your patient's unit accepts flowers.

What Baptist Hospital of Miami allows

Baptist Hospital's own page covers lobby hours and how visitors get in at night, but it leaves out what matters most to a sender. There is no list of units where flowers are banned, nothing on latex versus foil balloons, and nothing on potted plants. With a cancer institute and a neonatal unit under one roof, we would not assume every floor treats a bouquet the same way. Across US hospitals, oncology, transplant and intensive care units commonly refuse fresh flowers and latex, and foil (mylar) balloons are generally the safer pick. That is general practice, not a Baptist rule, but it is a good reason to ask before you pay.

Based on the hospital's own website, checked October 29, 2026.

Where the delivery goes

If you use an outside florist, put the patient's full legal name on the order, the room number if the family gave it to you, and the hospital's main number so the driver can call ahead. Leave the address as 8900 North Kendall Dr., Miami, FL 33176.

Timing matters here. The main lobby opens at 7 a.m. and closes after 9 p.m.; at night, entry moves to the Lake Pavilion and the exit runs through the Emergency Department. A daytime delivery is far less likely to get stuck.

Short stays are common after surgery and cardiac procedures. Check with the family that the patient will still be admitted the day your order arrives.

If flowers aren't an option

If the answer on fresh flowers is no, a foil balloon where the unit allows one, a book or a game for a long stay are easy fallbacks. A handwritten card always gets through. For a baby in the NICU, which is open to visitors around the clock with two at a time, the parents are the people to spoil, and a bouquet sent to their home will last longer than one on a crowded unit.

What to send to a patient here

For a general medical or surgical patient, keep it small: a low arrangement that fits on a tray table, with little scent, in a vase that will not tip. Cheerful color reads well in a busy room. Our get-well flowers guide has picks that hold up for a week. If the patient is in treatment at the cancer institute, ask first, and lean toward a card with a real message; see what to write on the card for ideas that don't sound canned.