The James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital is a tertiary care facility classified as a Clinical Referral Level 1 Facility. JAHVH is a teaching hospital, providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology as well as education and research. Comprehensive health care is provided through primary care, tertiary care, and long-term care in areas of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, neurology, oncology, dentistry, geriatrics, and extended care.
The Tampa VA hospital is authorized for 415 beds and 118 Nursing Home Care Unit beds. It is also one of four Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center facilities in the country designed to provide intensive rehabilitative care to Veterans and Service members who experienced severe injuries (including brain injuries) to more than one organ system.
The Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center is a 170,000 square foot Center for inpatient and outpatient care that features 56 Private Inpatient Rooms for Acute Physical Rehabilitation of Veterans and Active Duty Service Members. Eighteen of the 56 rooms are dedicated to the rehabilitation of the Traumatic Brain Injured (Polytrauma) patients. The remaining thirty eight beds will meet the Rehabilitation needs of post orthopedic surgery, amputations, or the Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program.
The Tampa VA hospital is affiliated with the University of South Florida (USF) College of Medicine (Health Sciences Center) in North Tampa. Tampa provides training to 183 USF residents and fellows, offering residency training in all major medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties. The hospital is also a training site for medical, nursing (more than 400), and other health care professional students.
For more information, please visit the
James A. Haley VA Hospital website or
Tampa Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center website.