Lower Florida Keys Hospital DistrictLocal authority

The Lower Florida Keys Hospital District is an independent special healthcare district in Monroe County, Florida, governed by a board of commissioners appointed by the governor. Established to provide and oversee essential public healthcare facilities and services for residents from the Seven Mile Bridge through Key West, it owns the hospital property and assets of Lower Keys Medical Center. Opened as Florida Keys Memorial Hospital in 1971, the public facility later merged healthcare operations with dePoo Hospital in 1990 before transitioning day-to-day operations to private healthcare management under a long-term lease in 1999.