A new 153-bed hospital, designed to serve the estimated 10 per cent of Broward County population east of the Intracoastal Waterway between the 17th Street Causeway and the Hillsboro Inlet, is under way. The new North Beach Medical Center on 'a three-acre plot at 2835 N. Atlantic Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale will ultimately replace the smaller 15-year-old Beach Hospital, several blocks north of Las Olas Boulevard.
-Source: "Beach Hospital Work Is Started" Newspapers.com. Fort Lauderdale News, July 31, 1972. https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-lauderdale-news-beach-hospital-work/200103062/.