Acute Care Surgery
Overview
Message from the Division Chief
The Division of Acute Care Surgery provides care of the trauma, emergency general surgery (EGS), and surgical critical care, is in the department of surgery. Tampa General Hospital (TGH) is the primary clinical site for the clinical care and has been named one of the Nation’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. We are ranked as the #1 hospital in Tampa Bay and ranked among the top 50 hospitals in the nation in six specialties. We've also been named one of the World's Best Hospitals by Newsweek and were named to the 2022 Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals List. We are Magnet® recognized for nursing excellence and we adhere to rigorous standards, measuring ourselves against the best in the business so the care we deliver today continues to raise the bar.
Jose Diaz, MD, CPE, CNS, FACS, FCCM
Division Chief, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery
Acute Care Surgery Overview
Mission
To become a highly reliable organization providing patient-centered, evidence-based medical care for critically ill or injured patients, to educate the next generation of provider, and discover innovative treatments for the acute care surgery patient.
Vision
To be the first and best choice in the Tampa Bay Metro Area for the acute care surgery patient.
Clinical Integration
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The Wallace Trauma Center at TGH is the only Level I Trauma Center in West Central Florida. It was also the first American College of Surgeons Level I verified trauma program for adults and children in the state of Florida. TGH is a Florida Department of Health Verified Brain and Spinal Cord Center of Excellence.
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The Emergency General Surgery (EGS) service is a very busy surgical service managing common surgical emergencies, soft tissue infection, surgical catastrophes, and functions as the surgical rescue team for TGH.
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Surgical Trauma Intensive Care Unit (STICU) is a 18 bed unit and 9 bed Surgical Step-Down Unit (SSDU) provide the critical care to the trauma and EGS patients. The STICU also admits several other surgical service patients as either post – surgical resuscitation, sepsis management, or organ dysfunction (Transplant, Surgical Oncology, Colo-Rectal, Upper GI Surgery, Vascular Surgery, OB/GYN and GYN Oncology, ENT / H&N, Urology, Orthopedics, and Plastic surgery).
Research, Training, and Education Highlights
Mission Zero
“Mission Zero” is a program sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services through the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response that provides administrative funding to ensure medical readiness by integrating military care providers into civilian trauma centers. These providers often have experience in austere and combat settings that can be shared with their civilian counterparts and applied to the unique medical challenges found in natural disasters and mass casualties as well as penetrating and blunt force trauma.
Two active-duty Air Force trauma surgeons are credentialed and on the medical staff at TGH. They are fully integrated members of the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery as attending trauma surgeons. Additionally, they will receive academic appointments at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and serve as educators to over 40 surgery residents and 4 trauma surgery fellows.
Our division faculty serve as educators to over 40 surgery residents; 4 trauma surgery fellows; and USF medical students.
Contact Us
Acute Care Surgery Division
(813) 844-7968