Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center · Miami, FL — part of the Miami VA Healthcare System. VA’s own page for this facility.
The doors
- Main phone: 305-575-7000
- Patient advocates: The system’s Patient Advocates page states that patient advocates at the Miami VA Healthcare System are specially trained to help veterans resolve issues with their care; no individual advocates are named on the page.
- Leadership: the system’s leadership, as VA publishes it
On the record
What the VA Office of Inspector General has published about this facility, newest first. The summaries are ours; the reports are theirs.
- Healthcare Facility Inspection of the Miami VA Healthcare System in Florida (2025-11-19) — Focused OIG inspection issued five recommendations, all in environment of care: addressing facility deficiencies, preventive maintenance for medical equipment, supply storage, expired medical supplies and patient food, and door signs.
- Financial Efficiency Review of the Miami VA Healthcare System (2021-08-11) — OIG found prime-vendor stock failures undercut the supply program’s savings, purchase-card documentation and audit gaps, higher administrative staffing than similar facilities, and pharmacy end-of-year purchasing problems; twelve recommendations issued.
- Healthcare Inspection – Unexpected Patient Death in a Substance Abuse Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program, Miami VA Healthcare System, Miami, Florida (2014-03-27) — OIG reviewed an unexpected patient death in Miami’s substance abuse residential rehabilitation treatment program and identified concerns related to supervision and monitoring of patients in the program.
If this is your facility
If this is where you or your veteran gets care, the doors above are not the only ones.
- Government Doors — every official channel a family can walk through, in the order that works: patient advocates, the medical center director, the VISN, the Inspector General, your members of Congress.
- Tell Your Story — this site publishes documented family records. If your family’s record belongs next to ours, send it.
- VA OIG Hotline: 800-488-8244 — report suspected wrongdoing, inadequate patient care, or mismanagement straight to the Inspector General.
Atlas data checked 2026-10-24 against VA’s own pages and VA OIG publications. Doors change; if a number or a name here is wrong, tell us — corrections are the point of this site.