Tampa General Hospital

Tampa General Hospital
Geography
Location	Tampa, Florida, United States
Organization
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	USF Morsani College of Medicine
Services
Emergency department	Level I trauma center
Beds	1,018
Links
Website	http://www.tgh.org/, www.facebook.com/tampageneralhospital
Lists	Hospitals in Florida

Tampa General Hospital (TGH) is a 1,018-bed teaching hospital in downtown Tampa, Florida. It is located on Davis Islands.

Tampa General Hospital has about 6,700 employees, works in partnership with the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, and has one of four burn centers in Florida. Tampa General Hospital is a level one trauma center, with a five-helicopter fleet, serving 23 counties.

TGH has specialty centers for Orthopedics, Trauma, Obesity, Neurology, Parathyroid Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery, Burns, Cardiac Surgery, Transplantation, Vascular Surgery, Women's Health and OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Neonatal Intensive Care, In-vitro Fertilization, and others. Tampa General hospital is home to one of the leading organ transplant centers in the country, having performed more than 6,000 adult solid organ transplants, including the state’s first successful heart transplant in 1985.

TGH has been accredited the "magnet status" by the American Nurses Credentialing Center since 2005. In 2012 U.S. News & World Report named TGH the number one hospital in Florida. TGH earned the Consumer's Choice Award in 2012 for the seventh consecutive year. The award, issued by the National Research Corporation, identifies hospitals that healthcare consumers selected for having the highest quality and image.

Local legend has it that the placement of what was originally named Tampa Municipal Hospital on Davis Islands was decided in a bunker of the Palma Ceia Country Club golf course. David P. Davis, developer of Davis Islands, was playing with Dr. J. Brown Farrior, James Swann, and Mayor Chancy of Tampa. The city had considered expanding the existing George Keller Memorial Hospital, located at 306 North Boulevard in what had been the grounds of the Tampa Bay Hotel, but had found such expansion unworkable. Instead, it approached Davis about building upon the Davis Islands land that he had deeded to the city. On the golf course, Davis asked Farrior, who was then chairman of the city's Committee for the Construction of Tampa Municipal Hospital, where he wanted the hospital sited, drawing a rough map of the Islands in the sand. Farrior indicated the tip of the island.

Whether this story is true or not, that is where the hospital construction began in March 1926, voters in the city having approved a USD215,000 bond issue to fund construction in 1924. The hospital building was complete by the next year, the final construction cost having been USD300,000, with patients moving to there from the George Keller Memorial Hospital on 1927-11-15. James Swann became the Chairman of the board of directors of Tampa Municipal.

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