quarta-feira, 28 de abril de 2010

10) Health

Miami-Dade County, with 28 hospitals and more than 32,000 licensed healthcare professionals, has the state's largest concentration of medical facilities, which provide comprehensive human and social services through an array of programs. Hundreds of thousands of residents take part in a wide variety of county programs including emergency assistance, mental health care, substance abuse treatment and prevention, homeless shelter, veteran services, and other traditional social services.

Considered one of the best hospitals in the United States, Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) is also one of the nation's largest health care facilities. JMH, Miami-Dade County's only public hospital, is affiliated with the University of Miami School of Medicine and is known for research work in a number of fields, particularly eye and blood diseases, diabetes, and back pain. With the only Level 1 trauma center in South Florida, JMH treats more than 95 percent of the trauma victims in Miami-Dade County. The burn center, spinal cord injury center and organ transplant program are other JMH specialty areas unique to South Florida. Also at the Medical Center, the Bascom-Palmer Eye Institute/Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital, Mailman Center for Child Development, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, National Parkinson Foundation, Diabetes Research Institute, and the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, among many others, have earned Miami-Dade County high marks nationally and internationally as a center for groundbreaking research and treatment programs.

Baptist Hospital owns several facilities in the area and is highly regarded for the quality of its patient care. Miami Children's Hospital, a 268-bed facility, is South Florida's only licensed specialty hospital especially for the treatment of children. The not-for-profit hospital has a medical staff numbering over 650, is the largest freestanding pediatric teaching hospital in the Southeastern United States, and has a tele-education program reaching more than 40 sites in Latin America and the Caribbean. Other Miami-area hospitals are Mount Sinai Medical Center of Greater Miami, Cedars Medical Center, and Mercy Hospital.

9) Transport

What time do buses in Miami stop running in the evening? -At seven in the evening or don’t give any service in the weekends.
How much is the fare? -Fares are $1.25 each way, exact change only

terça-feira, 27 de abril de 2010

8) Music- I'm in Miami Beach

7) Economy

Miami is a center of commerce, finance, business headquarters, and has a strong international business community.




6) Location

With only 92 square kilometers of territory, Miami has the smallest area of any large U.S. city

5) Population









It has 682 092 inhabitantis. Are spoken in the city, besides English, Spanish, due to the amount of Hispanic-Americans living in Miami



segunda-feira, 19 de abril de 2010

4) The importance of Miami


Miami is a tourist center, one of the most visited cities by tourists in the United States because of its warm climate all year round, and beaches. The city is one of the most frequented by snow birds (the term used to describe the inhabitants of the northern United States of America, who spend the winter in southern states, particularly Florida, to escape the snow and cold). Tourism has become an important source of income for Miami from the 1920s, and is currently the main source of income for the city.


3) Miami Map



To see the map with better resolution, click on the image

2) Flag

This is the USA flag.
There are 50 stars on the blue rectangle, which symbolizes each state in the country.

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1) Location

Miami is in United States of America. In Miami people speak english

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