Each door is painted with a scene of Florida wildlife to help children find their rooms more easily. Patients are admitted through out-patient, which treats approximately 50 patients per day. This aids in promoting positive relationships and cooperation. Family services assists the medical and nursing staff in acquiring a social history on children admitted and in securing financial assistance for families with special needs. These programs help promote normal growth and development in children.
Patients spend most of their active time in the mall area.
Teaching - where patients continue with public school instruction. The Tampa Hospital also has a pre-operative holding room designed and decorated to relax the children and prepare them psychologically for surgery. Two operating rooms are equipped to provide quality patient care to those needing surgery. Operations may be viewed on monitors in the hospital auditorium for educational purposes by the medical staff. The auditorium, equipped with a large screen and projection area, is the largest room used for continuing education of hospital staff.