Our Hospitals
Tampa General Hospital
Tampa General Hospital is a 1,000-bed metropolitan hospital, which has 181 beds and cribs dedicated for pediatrics. More than 25 pediatric specialties are part of the Children's Medical Center, which features a multi-specialty unit, a pediatric intensive care center, a neonatal intensive care unit with ECMO technology, dialysis and renal transplant units, newborn and special care nurseries, and regional trauma and burn centers that serve both children and adults.
Residents gain clinical pediatric experiences in a wide variety of settings. They rotate through many teaching centers, including the USF Medical Clinic, which is part of the university's multi-center outpatient care network. Residents also staff Genesis, a prenatal and infant/children care clinic serving high-risk populations in Tampa. Residents gain further outpatient experience through participation in private practices and community clinics. These positions include urban, suburban and rural settings providing a full spectrum of the challenges facing tomorrow's pediatric practitioners.
An extensive computerized database is used to track the patients seen by residents in the Continuity Clinic. The system documents patient mix by age and diagnosis to help ensure that each resident has sufficient experience with well patients and patients with more complex or chronic problems.
The ability of residents to elect clinical and research experience at numerous facilities throughout the region adds an important element of flexibility, providing a medical education that can easily adapt to today's changing health care picture. Through this flexibility, the Department of Pediatrics provides its resident trainees with ample opportunity to explore the full spectrum of pediatric practice and research.
Learn more about the new construction happening at Tampa General Hospital! Visit: http://www.tgh.org.
All Children's Hospital
Located in downtown St. Petersburg, All Children's Hospital is one of only 48 freestanding children's hospitals in the U.S. and has the highest level of patient acuity in the country. The hospital's 216 beds include 60 acute and intermediate neonatal intensive care cribs, 12 surgical intensive care beds, eight medical intensive care beds, eight bone marrow transplant beds, the busiest pediatric heart surgery program in Florida, and the largest pediatric cancer program in the southeastern U.S. An 11,000 square-foot pediatric emergency center treats children from a wide referral region. Centers of excellence for pediatric cardiac surgery and cardiac transplantation, cystic fibrosis, cleft palate surgery and developmental pediatrics serve children from throughout Florida and the United States. Annual admissions at All Children's Hospital approximate 7,000.
Residents and medical students train with All Children's 130 pediatricians and subspecialists, who represent 35 medical and surgical specialties. A high concentration of tertiary referral patients means that residents are exposed to an intense variety of pathophysiology not available in other types of educational programs. Directly across the street from the hospital, outpatient programs are responsible for more than 90,000 outpatient visits yearly. The Children's Health Center also houses a General Pediatrics program, medical specialty clinics, and research laboratories for pediatric endocrinology, molecular genetics and immunology. The Children's Health Center connects to a freestanding Physicians Office Building, which houses the majority of faculty practices. Pediatric residents treat both community patients and referral tertiary care patients, affording exposure to a good cross-section of both aspects of pediatric care. Pediatric subspecialty satellite clinics in three neighboring counties serve a rapidly growing referral population and offer residents additional educational opportunities.
The Children's Research Institute, located on the USF/All Children's Hospital campus, opened in 2000. The 50,000 square-foot facility houses laboratories for basic research led by scientists, who hold endowed chairs in pediatrics. There are three floors dedicated to laboratory space, where investigators share centralized bays of major instrumentation. The institute will be home to as many as 100 researchers in the fields of immunology, allergy, molecular genetics, cardiology, molecular cardiology, endocrinology, cancer research, and developmental pediatrics.
Learn about the new 1 million square foot Children's Hospital being built now! Visit All Children's Hospital at http://www.allkids.org and view a slide show of the new hospital.