Serving the community since 1967, Boca Raton Community Hospital (www.brch.com) has 400 beds and more than 700 primary and specialty physicians with privileges. Areas of expertise include cancer, cardiovascular disease and surgery, minimally invasive surgery and women's health.

The Christine E. Lynn Heart Institute opened in September 2006, eliminating the need for patients to travel potentially life-threatening distances to receive comprehensive emergency cardiac care. This was the first time in 22 years that a new open-heart program opened in Palm Beach County.

The new home of the Eugene M. and Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute, the Harvey and Phyllis Sandler Pavilion, is planned to open in 2008. Upon its completion, the $73 million, 98,000 square foot facility will house oncology imaging, radiation, chemotherapy, support services and clinical research.

In 2012, Boca Raton Community Hospital will become the Charles E. Schmidt Medical Center, the first new academic medical center to open in the United States in nearly thirty years. The planned 530-private room teaching hospital will become a standard for hospital safety by improving visibility of patients to staff, standardizing and automating certain tasks and procedures, minimizing physician fatigue and empowering patients' families to participate in patient care. The hospital's design will combine best practices in technology, architecture, academia and patient care to pioneer a new era in hospital safety.

The new academic medical center will be located on 38 acres of Florida Atlantic University's Boca Raton Campus and be the teaching hospital for the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine at FAU.