Eight doctors who have treated North Miami patients for years are now practicing under a new name. Physicians Group of South Florida officially became part of UHealth effective Monday, November 2, folding five primary care physicians and three gastroenterologists into the University of Miami's health system while keeping most patients in familiar exam rooms.
According to UHealth, the five primary care doctors — Jane S. Cohen, Martin Drost, Leilany Irizarry-Colon, Danny Abouekde and Jonathan Pomper — will keep seeing patients at the practice's existing location, which is being renamed UHealth North Miami. The three gastroenterologists, David Cohen, Arin H. Newman and Daniel L. Wolfson, will instead see patients at UHealth SoLé Mia Medical Center, the system's newer outpatient campus in North Miami.
UHealth says the switch gives patients at both sites access to a broader network of physicians and specialists backed by the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. Per the same account, patients will also gain access to MyChart and what UHealth describes as an integrated network of primary, specialty and subspecialty care.
A Practice Rooted in Miami Beach Since 1967
Physicians Group of South Florida traces its history back to 1967, when the practice was founded in Miami Beach, according to Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report. Its physicians have served the North Miami area for roughly two decades and have practiced out of their current location for about 15 years, the outlet reports. That continuity is part of why UHealth is framing the move as an expansion of access rather than a disruption — the same primary care team, now operating under a larger institutional umbrella.
Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report also notes that having UHealth North Miami and UHealth SoLé Mia operating in tandem is meant to create opportunities for greater coordination among primary care physicians, gastroenterologists and other UHealth specialists. That coordination, the outlet reports, is intended to help patients access more of their care close to home.
Why Gastroenterology Is Moving to SoLé Mia
The shift sends gastroenterology patients to a facility UHealth has been building out for just over a year. UHealth SoLé Mia sits at 2111 Sole Mia Way and rises seven stories, according to the Miami Herald. Estimates of the building's size vary across sources: the Herald puts it at approximately 363,000 square feet, while the University of Miami's own news service describes it as 370,000 square feet, and architecture firm Robins Morton lists it at 370,143 square feet.
The medical center opened its doors on September 30, 2025, according to the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine news service, though a separate UHealth announcement described the facility as officially open and ready to serve patients across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties as of October 1, 2025. The Herald reports the center is not a hospital but an outpatient facility, with services rolled out in phases, and that UHealth expects it to see more than 70,000 patients annually across more than 30 specialties, including cancer, cardiac, eye, neurology, orthopedics, ENT and gastroenterology care.
Big Investment, Bigger Ambitions
The building itself reflects that scale. Robins Morton, the project's builder, says the medical center houses 110 exam rooms, 13 operating rooms, 33 clinical treatment units for cancer patients, nine imaging rooms and two linear accelerator machines. The same source describes SoLé Mia as the University of Miami Health System's largest outpatient care center to date.
The Herald reports UHealth also plans to roll out Suki AI ambient dictation technology at SoLé Mia first, before expanding the transcription tool to other locations. The broader push fits a pattern UHealth has followed in recent years: the Miller School of Medicine's news service notes that SoLé Mia joins UHealth Doral and The Lennar Foundation Medical Center as part of a wider expansion strategy aimed at bringing care closer to patients amid South Florida's population growth, a goal the Herald also attributes to UHealth leadership.
UHealth has touted its credentials alongside the expansion. The system notes it was ranked No. 2 in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro area and No. 5 statewide in the 2026–27 U.S. News & World Report rankings, and that its Bascom Palmer Eye Institute was ranked No. 1 nationally in ophthalmology for the 25th consecutive year. UHealth has also been named a 2026 Vizient Ambulatory Quality and Accountability Top Performer, one of only five organizations recognized nationally for outpatient-care excellence, per the system's own location page.
Another Expansion on the Horizon
The North Miami changes may not be the system's last move in the region. A South Florida Business Journal search snippet indicates the University of Miami Health System has proposed a 155,560-square-foot outpatient center in Pinecrest, with a Village Council review cited for October 13, 2026. Details beyond that proposal — including whether it has been approved or when construction might begin — were not independently verified.
For now, the practical change for North Miami patients is straightforward: primary care stays put under the UHealth North Miami name, while gastroenterology appointments move a short distance to the SoLé Mia campus, where UHealth says patients will find a far larger specialty network than the standalone practice could offer on its own.
