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Miami-Dade County, Florida

Hospital & Bedside Notary in Miami — Same Day

We notarize at bedsides across Miami-Dade, day or night, and we bring our own witnesses because hospital staff usually decline. We also tell you honestly when a patient cannot legally sign.

What it costs
$10 per notarial act + travel; witnesses included
How fast
24/7. Civic Center 30–60 min; causeway and south county longer
Speak with a Notary immediatelyCall or text (619) 746-1616

Miami-Dade facilities we attend

Grouped the way we dispatch, which in Miami means by which side of Biscayne Bay you are on. Jackson Memorial and UHealth Tower sit two blocks apart in the Civic Center — the busiest notary corridor in the county.

Civic Center / Health District

30–60 min, business hours
  • Jackson Memorial Hospital1611 NW 12th Ave, Miami, FL 33136
  • UHealth Tower — University of Miami Health System1400 NW 12th Ave, Miami, FL 33136

Miami Beach & the barrier islands

60–120 min; longer at causeway rush hour
  • Mount Sinai Medical Center4300 Alton Rd, Miami Beach, FL 33140

South Miami & Coral Gables

30–60 min, business hours
  • South Miami Hospital6200 SW 73rd St, South Miami, FL 33143
  • Doctors Hospital5000 University Dr, Coral Gables, FL 33146
  • Nicklaus Children's Hospital3100 SW 62nd Ave, Miami, FL 33155

Kendall & west Miami-Dade

60–120 min
  • Baptist Hospital of Miami8900 N Kendall Dr, Miami, FL 33176

North Miami-Dade & Aventura

60–120 min
  • Jackson North Medical Center160 NW 170th St, North Miami Beach, FL 33169

South Dade

Same day, window quoted at booking
  • Jackson South Medical Center9333 SW 152nd St, Miami, FL 33157
  • Homestead Hospital975 Baptist Health Way, Homestead, FL 33033

Not everywhere we go — it is every facility whose current name and address we have verified against the operator's own site. We also attend nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, rehab centres, and hospices across Miami-Dade; give us the name when you book.

What we check before we let anyone sign

A notary is not a witness to a piece of paper. A notary is a witness to a person choosing something. In a hospital room those come apart more often than anywhere else, so before a pen moves we establish three things — and if any fails, we stop.

Is the signer aware of what this document is?

Not a memory test, and not a medical opinion — we are not qualified to give one. We ask open questions and listen for answers in the signer's own words. In Spanish if that is their language, because someone frightened and unwell should not also be translating.

Is the signer doing this willingly?

Hospital rooms contain a lot of people with strong opinions. If the signer looks to a relative before every answer, or a relative keeps answering for them, we ask for the room. Sometimes the answer changes when the audience leaves.

Can we identify the signer under Florida law?

Acceptable identification, or sworn credible witnesses under Fla. Stat. § 117.05(5). A wristband is not identification. We carry the credible-witness affidavits so a wallet at home does not end the appointment.

Sometimes the answer is no

If the patient is sedated, intubated, or unresponsive there is nothing to notarize and we will say so. We know what that means for a family standing in a corridor at Jackson at two in the morning, and we would still rather tell you the truth than hand you a document a probate judge later sets aside. When we decline we explain what is left: an existing directive, a Florida attorney, sometimes the court.

Working with the floor

Getting to the bedside is half the job. Tell the charge nurse a notary is coming — a routine request that removes the only real friction. Visiting hours are rarely the obstacle people expect; ICUs run on their own rhythm and will often make room for a signing that has to happen. Overnight, most Miami-Dade hospitals funnel visitors through one entrance and want the floor to confirm you.

We bring two witnesses as standard, becauseFla. Stat. § 709.2105(2)requires two subscribing witnesses on a Florida power of attorney and hospital staff commonly decline to serve. A signing that depends on finding two willing strangers in a corridor is a signing that fails.

What gets signed at a Miami bedside

  • Durable power of attorney, so somebody can act on accounts and bills
  • Healthcare surrogate designation — the document families usually mean when they say “medical power of attorney”
  • Living will and advance directives
  • Guardianship and pre-need guardian paperwork
  • Affidavits and sworn statements tied to a pending court matter
  • Deeds and closing documents when a signer is admitted mid-transaction

We can notarize any of these. We cannot tell you which one you need, draft it, or explain what it says — see ourMiami power of attorney pagefor the execution requirements, and ourliving trust guideif the family is working through a wider estate plan.

Miami-Dade neighborhoods and ZIPs we attend at bedside

Bedside work is only partly hospitals. The rest is nursing homes, rehab units, hospices, and private bedrooms on the same block as the facility somebody was discharged from — so coverage here is the whole county, grouped by how we stage notaries around the bay.

Downtown & Brickell

30–60 min, business hours
Neighborhoods & cities
Bayfront · Brickell Business District · Brickell Village · CBD · East Little Havana · Edgewater · Edison · Government Center · Hadley Park · Lemon City/Little Haiti · Lummus Park · Miami Avenue · Morningside · Omni/PAC · Port of Miami · Roads · Santa Clara · Southeast Overtown · Vizcaya · West Brickell · Miami
ZIP codes (8)
33101 33127 33128 33129 33130 33131 33132 33137

Miami Beach & the barrier islands

60–120 min; longer at causeway rush hour
Neighborhoods & cities
Virginia Key · Bal Harbour · Bay Harbor Islands · Indian Creek Village · Key Biscayne · Miami · Miami Beach · Miami Shores · North Bay Village · Surfside · Unincorporated Miami-Dade
ZIP codes (6)
33109 33139 33140 33141 33149 33154

Coral Gables & Coconut Grove

30–60 min, business hours
Neighborhoods & cities
Douglas Park · Flagami · Shenandoah South · Silver Bluff · South Grove · South Grove Bayside · Coral Gables · Miami · South Miami · Unincorporated Miami-Dade
ZIP codes (5)
33133 33134 33143 33145 33146

Little Havana, Allapattah & Little Haiti

30–60 min, business hours
Neighborhoods & cities
Auburndale · Citrus Grove · Civic Center · Culmer · Edison · Hadley Park · Little River Central · Little River Industrial District · Melrose · North Grapeland Heights · Northwestern Estates · Santa Clara · Shenandoah North · Shorecrest · Southeast Overtown · El Portal · Miami · Miami Shores · Unincorporated Miami-Dade
ZIP codes (7)
33125 33135 33136 33138 33142 33147 33150

Doral, Hialeah & Sweetwater

60–120 min; Palmetto traffic dependent
Neighborhoods & cities
Flagami · Le Jeune Gardens · West Grapeland Heights · Doral · Hialeah · Hialeah Gardens · Medley · Miami · Miami Gardens · Miami Lakes · Miami Springs · Sweetwater · Unincorporated Miami-Dade
ZIP codes (14)
33010 33012 33013 33014 33015 33016 33018 33122 33126 33166 33172 33174 33178 33182

Kendall & west Miami-Dade

60–120 min
Neighborhoods & cities
Flagami · Coral Gables · Cutler Bay · Miami · Palmetto Bay · Pinecrest · West Miami · Unincorporated Miami-Dade
ZIP codes (16)
33144 33155 33156 33157 33158 33165 33173 33175 33176 33183 33184 33185 33186 33193 33194 33196

Aventura, Sunny Isles & north Miami-Dade

60–120 min
Neighborhoods & cities
Aventura · Biscayne Park · Golden Beach · Miami Gardens · Miami Shores · North Miami · North Miami Beach · Opa-locka · Sunny Isles Beach · Unincorporated Miami-Dade
ZIP codes (12)
33054 33055 33056 33160 33161 33162 33167 33168 33169 33179 33180 33181

South Dade & Homestead

Same day, window quoted at booking
Neighborhoods & cities
Cutler Bay · Homestead · Unincorporated Miami-Dade
ZIP codes (12)
33030 33031 33032 33033 33034 33035 33039 33170 33177 33187 33189 33190

That is all 80 Miami-Dade delivery ZIP codes. ZIP boundaries are postal routes and ignore city limits here — 33154 alone touches Surfside, Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands and Indian Creek Village — so we list every place a ZIP meaningfully covers. “Unincorporated Miami-Dade” means an address inside the county but outside any city, which is most of Kendall and the Redland and changes nothing about a notarization. PO-Box and single-recipient ZIPs are left out on purpose: there is no delivery area behind them, so give us the street address instead. Response windows are business-hours estimates from where our notaries stage, not guarantees — you get a specific ETA by text once one is assigned.

Overnight these windows tighten rather than stretch: empty roads and quiet floors are why 2am is often faster than a weekday afternoon. What changes after hours is access, not driving — most Miami-Dade facilities funnel visitors through a single entrance and want the floor to confirm the visit, which is a call worth making before we arrive. Jackson Memorial and UHealth Tower share ZIP 33136 in the Little Havana, Allapattah & Little Haiti group above; it is the fastest address in the county for us.

Miami bedside notary questions

Including the two questions families are most afraid to ask.

How fast can you get to a Miami hospital?
It depends which side of the bay you are on, and we would rather say that than quote a number we cannot keep. The Civic Center cluster — Jackson Memorial and UHealth Tower, effectively across the street from each other on NW 12th Avenue — is the fastest address in the county for us, usually 30 to 60 minutes in business hours. Mount Sinai on Miami Beach depends entirely on the causeways, and at 5:30pm the MacArthur is the whole story. Kendall, Aventura, and Homestead run longer. Tell us the hospital and the room and you get a real ETA.
Can you come at 2am?
Yes, and a real share of our hospital work happens overnight, because that is when families realise the paperwork does not exist. Nights are logistically easier than weekday afternoons — empty roads, quiet floors — but access tightens. Most Miami-Dade hospitals restrict entry to one lobby overnight and want the patient's floor to confirm the visit. Tell the nurse we are coming if you can; if you cannot, we will sort it out at the desk, which is a normal part of the job.
My mother has dementia. Can she still sign?
Sometimes, and nobody can answer it over the phone. The notary's duty is narrow but real: at the moment of signing, the signer must be aware of what the document is and be signing willingly. A dementia diagnosis is not automatically disqualifying — capacity fluctuates, and a person can be lucid at 10am and not at 4pm. We talk with her, in Spanish if that is her language, and ask questions that let her tell us in her own words what she is doing. If she can, we proceed. If she cannot, we stop, and we will not be talked into it by a relative who is certain she would have wanted this. That refusal is the service: a notarization taken from someone who could not consent is exactly what gets the document set aside later.
What if the patient is sedated, intubated, or unresponsive?
Then we cannot notarize, and no notary in Florida can — there is no consent to witness and no acknowledgment to take. It is the hardest call we make and we make it regularly. What we can do is be useful about alternatives: if a valid durable power of attorney or healthcare surrogate designation already exists, the authority may already be in place and nobody needs to sign anything. If it does not, the route runs through a Florida attorney and sometimes the court — not through finding a more agreeable notary. Anyone who offers to notarize an unresponsive patient's signature is building a document to fail.
What if her wallet is at home and she has no ID?
Florida has a route for this and it is why we ask early. Under Fla. Stat. § 117.05(5) a notary can rely on satisfactory evidence of identity in the form of sworn credible witnesses — either one witness whom the notary personally knows, or two witnesses who are unknown to the notary but produce their own valid identification. In a hospital room that is often the difference between a signing happening tonight and a family member driving to Homestead and back for a purse. We carry the credible-witness affidavit forms. The alternative is the patient's own acceptable identification, which Florida defines broadly and which must be current or have been issued within the past five years — a hospital wristband is not on that list.
Will the nurses act as witnesses?
Assume not. Many Miami-Dade hospitals discourage or prohibit staff from witnessing patients' legal documents, and even where it is permitted an individual nurse may decline. That matters more in Florida than elsewhere, because a power of attorney needs two subscribing witnesses on top of the notary — so a signing that depends on borrowing staff can collapse at the bedside. We bring our own witnesses as a matter of course. If you are booking with somebody else, ask them this question specifically.
Do you cover nursing homes, assisted living, hospice, and rehab?
Yes, and they behave differently from hospitals. Assisted-living facilities and nursing homes across Miami-Dade — Kendall, Aventura, and Hialeah have particularly dense concentrations — tend to have stricter visitor logging and one administrator controlling access, so an unannounced arrival can burn an hour at the front desk. Hospice is the opposite: access is generous, the timeline is not. The documents and the capacity conversation are the same either way. Give us the facility name when you book and we will handle the access side.
What if my father can't physically hold a pen?
That has a statutory answer, and a good one. Fla. Stat. § 117.05(14) lets a notary sign the name of a person physically unable to sign — at that person's direction, in their presence, witnessed by two disinterested people. For a power of attorney, Fla. Stat. § 709.2105(3) points straight at that procedure. Florida also provides for a signature by mark, again before two disinterested witnesses. So a stroke, an IV line in the writing hand, or advanced tremor is solvable. Capacity is not: the procedure requires the signer to direct it, which means understanding and choosing it.

Other Miami notary services

Wrong page for what you're signing? Start at theMiami mobile notary hub, or go straight to the service you need. For the law as it applies outside Florida, ourpower of attorneyguide covers the national picture.

Apostille & international documentsUse this if your document is going to another country — Colombia, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Venezuela.Power of attorneyUse this if you need a Florida POA signed. Florida wants two witnesses plus the notary — we bring the witnesses.

Bedside notary anywhere in Miami-Dade, day or night

Give us the facility, the room, and what needs signing. We will bring witnesses, give you a real arrival window, and tell you straight away if there's a reason we can't proceed.

Request a bedside notaryCall (619) 746-1616

Sources for the rules on this page

  • Fla. Stat. § 117.05(5) — A notary must personally know the signer or rely on satisfactory evidence — a listed identification document, current or issued within the past five years, or sworn credible witnesses.
  • Fla. Stat. § 117.05(14) — A notary may read a document to a blind signer, witness a signature by mark before two disinterested witnesses, and — at the direction of a person physically unable to sign — sign that person's name in their presence before two disinterested witnesses.
  • Fla. Stat. § 709.2105(3) — If the principal is physically unable to sign a power of attorney, the notary taking the acknowledgment may sign the principal's name under § 117.05(14).
  • Fla. Stat. § 709.2105(2) — A power of attorney must be signed by the principal and by two subscribing witnesses and be acknowledged by the principal before a notary public.
  • Fla. Stat. § 117.05(2)(a) — The fee of a notary public may not exceed $10 for any one notarial act.

Statutes change, and the party receiving your document — a bank, a consulate, a title company, the Miami-Dade Clerk — is the final authority on whether a particular signing is acceptable for a particular purpose. We check these citations against the current-year text on flsenate.gov when we revise the page.

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