Tampa General Hospital (TGH), a private not-for-profit 1,040-bed metropolitan hospital, located on Davis Islands near downtown Tampa. It is considered one of the most comprehensive medical facilities in Southwest Central Florida and serves over a dozen counties. It was ranked #2 hospital in Florida and #1 in Tampa Bay by US News & World Report 2024-2025.TGH is the primary teaching affiliate of the Morsani College of Medicine. There are over 700 residents that train at Tampa General Hospital, as well as USF medical students, Physician Assistant students, nursing students, and physical therapy students. TGH is the area's only level I trauma center and one of just five burn centers in Florida. The hospital is home to one of the leading organ transplant centers in the country; including the pediatric kidney transplantation program, which is the busiest in West Central Florida. There is a Ronald McDonald house to provide families a home away from home adjacent to the hospital. TGH is one of just three pediatric brain and spinal cord injury rehabilitation centers in the state and, as the region's leading safety net hospital, is committed to providing excellent and compassionate health care ranging from the simplest to the most complex medical services.

The Muma Children’s Hospital at TGH has 138 pediatric beds and provides a comprehensive range of medical, surgical and rehabilitative services for infants, children and adolescents. It features a nine-bed pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) which serves as a Level I trauma unit a burn unit, an 82-bed state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with 50 inpatient floor beds including general and subspecialty patients, and one of just three outpatient pediatric dialysis units in the state. The pediatric ER had over 21,000 visits in 2023.  TGH also has a large obstetrical delivery service with more than 7,200 deliveries in 2023, which affords the hospital many newborns for the newborn and special care nurseries.Tampa General Hospital has received international recognition as a Baby-Friendly® designated birth facility. Baby-Friendly designation is awarded to centers that provide an optimal level of care for breastfeeding mothers and babies. Over 20 pediatric specialties are part of the center including: Cardiology, Critical Care, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Hospitalist, Gastroenterology, Hematology/Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Neonatology, Nephrology Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Pathology, Plastic Surgery, Pulmonology, Radiology, Rehabilitation, Psychiatry, Surgery, and Kidney Transplantation. Muma Children’s Hospital stresses an integrated approach to care that addresses children's psychological, social and developmental needs in addition to medical treatment. Pediatricians work closely with pediatric specialists, nurse practitioners, child life specialists, psychologists, pharmacists, pediatric respiratory, speech, physical, and occupational therapists.

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Located in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital is the only specialty licensed stand-alone children's hospital on Florida's west coast. It was ranked the # 1 Children’s Hospital in Florida by 2023-2024 US News and World Report and serves children from throughout Florida. This family-focused hospital serves as one of two primary teaching facilities for USF pediatric residents and medical students. A high concentration of tertiary referral patients means that residents are exposed to a variety of pathophysiology not available in other types of educational programs. 

The 9-floor hospital has 259 beds including:

• 97 acute and intermediate Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) cribs
• 28-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
• 22-bed Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU)
• 28-bed Emergency Center
• 12-bed operating suite
• 28-bed Oncology unit (one of the largest programs in the Southeast).

The hospital has one of Florida's busiest pediatric heart surgery programs and provides outstanding pediatric heart,and bone marrow/stem cell transplant programs. The hospital has about 7,000 admissions each year. Inpatient care is supervised by in-house Pediatric Hospitalists 24/7. The JHACH Emergency Center treats over 45,000 infants, children, and teenagers a year, and is part of a joint trauma program with Bayfront Medical Center.

Other facilities on the campus include the Education Conference Center, the Rothman Center for Neuropsychiatric Disorders, the Ronald McDonald House and The Children's Research Institute (CRI).

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