HCA Florida Healthcare-Palms West Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

HCA Florida Palms West is a community-based pediatric residency housed in a 206-bed hospital with dedicated pediatric inpatient, PICU, and level 3 NICU beds, drawing a mixed urban-agricultural patient population from the corridor between West Palm Beach and South-Central Florida's farming communities. The six-resident-per-class program is dually affiliated with Nova Southeastern University's allopathic and osteopathic colleges and Kansas City University, and leans on broad in-house subspecialist coverage (hematology-oncology, neonatology, GI, ID, nephrology, cardiology, pulmonology) rather than a tertiary academic center to teach general pediatrics. Scholarly activity is structurally supported (on-site research coordinator, access to HCA's multi-million-encounter patient database, funded travel for presenting original work) but is not the program's organizing identity; the stated mission is producing general pediatricians with flexibility across primary care, hospitalist practice, and fellowship. The program explicitly frames itself around team-based, one-on-one faculty teaching and resident well-being infrastructure (HCA's "Pathways to Flourishing" autonomy/belonging/competence model) rather than procedural volume or subspecialty pipeline production.