
Your Health and Welfare Benefits
- Two Medical Plans — or a cash credit if you are covered under a non-Baptist Health plan.
- Four Dental Plans — most of which include some coverage for orthodontics. The basic option (under the dental HMO plan) is at no cost to employees only, a benefit paid by Baptist Health.
- A Vision Care Plan — offering coverage from either an optometrist or ophthalmologist and benefits for frames and contacts.
- Life Insurance / Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance —a free benefit paid by Baptist Health.
- Option to Purchase Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance — up to five times your annual salary.
- Voluntary Benefits through Aflac — includes critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity coverage.
- Dependent Life Insurance.
- Business Travel Insurance — a free benefit paid by Baptist Health.
- Short- and Long-Term Disability Coverage — a free benefit paid by Baptist Health.
- Group Legal Services.
- Pet Care Membership Savings Program.
- Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent day care. Health Incentive Account — the annual wellness incentives you earn are deposited into this account to pay or be reimbursed for qualified medical and prescription expenses.
Your Financial Benefits
- Retirement Plan — with basic and matching contributions from Baptist Health.
- Personal Financial Management Services — with free seminars and one-on-one consultations.
- Government-required payments — including Social Security, Medicare, state unemployment, and workers’ compensation.
- Credit Union — including free checking, Mastercard, ATM and low-cost loans.
- Sunshine Fund — offering interest-free loans based on employee need.
- Direct Deposit of your Baptist Health paycheck.
- Payroll Deductions for items such as the Florida Prepaid College Plan, employee housing, cafeteria, and gift shop.
Your Career-Building Benefits
- Baptist Health University — with training and education opportunities to help you learn and grow.
- Scholarships — available for undergraduate and graduate nursing programs.
- Tuition Benefit — offers 100% tuition-free as well as partially-funded tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate education programs.
- Medical Library — serves employees’ information needs in school or on the job, and offers e-resources as well as traditional library services.
- Career Counseling — career counselors are available through Human Resources.
- LearnSpark — a learning experience platform that enables employees to take ownership of their development.
Your Additional Pineapple Perks
- Paid Time Off (PTO) — accrue up to 34 days per year.
- Annual Elective PTO Cash-Out — including an emergency PTO cash-out for financial hardships.
- Leave Sharing — in which you can donate your earned PTO to co-workers who need it.
- Jury Duty, Bereavement Benefit, and Military Leave.
- Flextime — with the approval of your department leader.
- Bridgement of Service — allows former employees to return within five years and have their previous service “bridged” so that they don’t lose benefits such as service awards and PTO.
- Early Learning Centers at Baptist Hospital, South Miami Hospital, Homestead Hospital, West Kendall Baptist Hospital, and Bethesda Hospital East.
- Paid Parental Benefit — offers two weeks’ pay (up to 80 hours) when you’re absent from work due to the birth or adoption of your child.
- Adoption Benefit of up to $10,000 per child (maximum $20,000 per employee).
- Public Transportation Benefit Program provides you with a 50 percent or more discount to ride Miami-Dade public transit and Tri-Rail.
- SoFi Student Loan Refinancing — refinancing of federal and/or private student loans and Parent PLUS debt at low-fixed and variable rates with a welcome bonus for employees who refinance.
- Baptist Health PineApp offers unlimited, online urgent care visits at no cost.
- Virgin Pulse Wellness Platform/App — provides you with the opportunity to engage in wellness and preventive care activities to significantly bring down your medical plan deductible.
- Lactation Services.
- Wellness Program and Services — offers employee wellness programs and fitness resources, nutrition services, and more.
- Health Advocate — an employee assistance and work/life balance program that provides you and your loved ones free, confidential assistance with work and family issues and provides resources for everyday life needs.
- Pastoral Care Services at each hospital campus.
- Employee Discounts through PerkSpot — a one-stop online shop that will save you money with many of your favorite national and local merchants.
- Free Employee Parking.
- On-Campus Discounted Food Services — available to employees at a 50% discount at each of the hospitals. Your hospital cafeteria also offers meals to go.
- Employee Referral Program — which pays bonuses for successful job candidate recommendations.
- Baptist Health Pharmacies — seven conveniently located pharmacies with minimal wait times and the ability to get 90-day maintenance medication for the price of only one copay.

*Note: If you or your dependents are tobacco users, you will pay a $50 per-pay-period smoker surcharge.
2025 Dental Plan Rates

**MetLife Safeguard DHMO plans only available in certain counties in Florida.
2025 Vision Plan rates
