licensed nursing homes in Miami-Dade County, with 7,817 certified beds.
Source: Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, FloridaHealthFinder facility listings, 2026-10-01
Nurse recruitment · Miami-Dade
Nurse recruitment in Miami-Dade County.
Direct-hire RNs, LPNs, and nurse leaders for Miami-Dade County employers, from Aventura and North Miami Beach to Kendall and Homestead. Skilled nursing, assisted living, home health, and hospice teams come first, and hospitals hiring RNs onto their own staff get the same process.
The local market
Miami-Dade County by the numbers.
What a facility or a nurse here would want to know first, each figure with its source.
licensed assisted living facilities in Miami-Dade County, with 10,626 licensed beds.
Source: Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, FloridaHealthFinder facility listings, 2026-10-01
licensed home health agencies in Miami-Dade County, plus 9 hospice providers and 26 hospitals.
Source: Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, FloridaHealthFinder facility listings, 2026-10-01
residents aged 65 and over in Miami-Dade County (16.8% of 2,685,296), including 64,294 aged 85 and over.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates (2019–2023), table S0101
average CMS staffing rating across the county’s Medicare-certified nursing homes; 3.90 total nurse hours per resident day on average.
Source: CMS Care Compare, Nursing Home Provider Information (data.cms.gov), 2026-10-01
average annual nursing staff turnover reported by the county’s nursing homes (RNs: 33.3%).
Source: CMS Care Compare, Nursing Home Provider Information (data.cms.gov), 2026-10-01
median RN pay in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach metro ($80,510 to $104,320 for the middle half). LPNs: $62,610.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025
registered nurses employed across the metro, and 8,900 LPNs.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025
registered nurses licensed with a Miami-Dade County address, plus 4,752 LPNs. Licensure counts, not headcount at work.
Source: Florida Center for Nursing, Florida's Nursing Workforce Supply by County (2023), 2020–21 license renewal cycle
Projected LPN shortfall in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale metro by 2035, up from 3,319 in 2019.
Source: Florida Hospital Association and IHS Markit nurse workforce projections
Minimum total direct-care staffing per resident day in Florida nursing homes, including 1.0 licensed nurse hour.
Source: Florida HB 1239 (2022)
For facilities
Hiring nurses in Miami-Dade
Miami-Dade is the largest nursing market in Florida and the most competitive: the county’s hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and home health agencies all draw from the same pool, and nurses can cross a city line for a dollar an hour. What keeps a nurse in a building here is commute, schedule, and leadership, so those are the first three things Soko asks about before it introduces anyone. The numbers below are the county’s own: how many licensed facilities and beds compete for staff, how the nursing homes rate on staffing, and what the metro pays.
Largest Medicare-certified nursing homes
- Miami Jewish Health Systems, Inc, Miami 393 beds
- Unity Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, Miami 294 beds
- Terrace of Hialeah, The, Hialeah 276 beds
- Miami Springs Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Miami Springs 269 beds
- Victoria Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Inc., Miami 264 beds
- North Dade Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, North Miami 245 beds
- Claridge House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, North Miami 240 beds
- Sands at South Beach Care Center, The, Miami Beach 230 beds
Rules that shape hiring in Florida
- Nursing home staffing floor. A Florida nursing home must provide a weekly average of 3.6 hours of direct care per resident per day, including at least 2.0 CNA hours (never fewer than one CNA per 20 residents) and 1.0 licensed-nurse hour (never fewer than one licensed nurse per 40 residents). Paid feeding assistants count toward the 3.6-hour total, not toward the CNA or nurse minimums. Florida Statutes § 400.23(3)(b)1 and (3)(c), as amended by HB 1239 (2022)
- When assisted living needs a nurse. An assisted living facility must hold a limited nursing services or extended congregate care license before it offers those services, and must employ or contract with a nurse to provide them, with a nursing assessment of each such resident at least monthly. Florida Administrative Code 59A-36.021 and 59A-36.022; Florida Statutes §§ 429.07, 429.255
- Home health director of nursing. A home health agency that provides skilled nursing care must have a director of nursing and may not operate more than 30 calendar days without one. AHCA must be notified within 10 business days when a director of nursing leaves and again when one is hired. Florida Statutes § 400.476(2)
For nurses
Nursing in Miami-Dade
From the hospital corridors of Jackson and Baptist to the assisted living communities of Aventura and the skilled nursing buildings of Hialeah and Kendall, Miami-Dade has a role for every license and shift. Traffic decides more careers here than pay does. Tell us the neighborhoods you will drive to and the shift you want, and we match on that before anything else.
Distances in Miami-Dade are measured in minutes, not miles: the Palmetto, I-95, US-1, and the Dolphin decide whether a job is close. Nurses tell us which parts of the county they will work in, and introductions stay inside them.
What is changing
What is changing in Miami-Dade County.
Openings, expansions, and programs that move nurse demand here, each with its date and source.
Jackson Memorial Hospital opens its $400 million emergency department expansion
178,000 square feet: 134 rooms in phase one, more than 200 ED beds by phase two, a 57-bed observation unit, and a 24-bed pediatric ER. The county's safety-net hospital will need more emergency, observation, and pediatric emergency RNs as the phases open.
Source: Local 10 News
Which Miami-Dade settings hire the most nurses through Soko?
Skilled nursing and assisted living communities first, then skilled home health and hospice agencies, then hospitals hiring RNs onto their own staff. Outpatient, dialysis, and infusion clinics come as they request.
Do you cover all of Miami-Dade County?
Yes. From Aventura and North Miami Beach down to Kendall, Cutler Bay, and Homestead, and west to Doral and Hialeah. Nurses tell us how far they will commute, so a Homestead opening goes to nurses who will actually drive there.
Are the numbers on this page for Miami-Dade or for the whole metro?
Facility counts, beds, ratings, and population are for Miami-Dade County. Pay figures are for the Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach metro, because that is how the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes them. Each figure names its source and date.
How Soko works
The same process for every Miami-Dade opening.
Soko Nurse Network
A growing, private, referral-built community of nurses that Soko curates. Your opening goes to our own network first, not a job-board posting.
Reviewed by a registered nurse
Soko was founded by a registered nurse. Every candidate is reviewed for units, patient loads, and fit with the role before an introduction.
Soko Match
Every opening and every nurse is captured on the same details: license, setting, units, shift, and location. Requests are scored the moment they arrive, so the strongest matches move first.
Sources
- Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, FloridaHealthFinder facility listings, 2026-10-01
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates (2019–2023), table S0101
- CMS Care Compare, Nursing Home Provider Information (data.cms.gov), 2026-10-01
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025
- Florida Center for Nursing, Florida's Nursing Workforce Supply by County (2023), 2020–21 license renewal cycle
- Florida Hospital Association and IHS Markit nurse workforce projections
- Florida HB 1239 (2022)
Figures are published statistics for the county or metro named; they describe the market, not Soko Healthcare’s placements. Data pulled 2026-10-01; refreshed quarterly.
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