page_title: Tampa General Hospital
section_title: Emergency Preparedness
hierarchical_section_title: Tampa General Hospital / Emergency Preparedness
caption_attribution_description: English: One of the Aeromed helicopters operated by Tampa General Hospital.
context_page_description: Tampa General Hospital is a 1,006-bed teaching hospital in downtown Tampa, Florida. It is located on Davis Islands.
  Tampa General Hospital has more than 8,000 team members and is the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. TGH is one of five burn centers in Florida. Tampa General Hospital is a level one trauma center, with a five-helicopter fleet, serving 23 counties.
  TGH has specialty centers for Orthopedics, Trauma, Obesity, Neurology, Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery, Burns, Cardiac Surgery, Transplantation, Vascular Surgery, Women's Health and OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Neonatal Intensive Care, In-vitro Fertilization, and others. Tampa General Hospital is home to one of the leading organ transplant centers in the country, having performed more than 9,000 adult solid organ transplants, including the state’s first successful heart transplant in 1985.
context_section_description: Rodney Kite-Powell, the curator of the Tampa Bay History Center, opines that neither the voters of 1924 nor the city's hospital construction committee gave much thought to the location of the hospital, with their primary motivation apparently being merely that the city already owned the land.  The location of the hospital has proven to be inconvenient over the years, as Davis Islands were originally accessible from elsewhere via just one bridge (now two).
  The impact of Hurricane Elena caused the hospital's main generator plant to be moved out of its previous location in the basement to a higher location, reducing the risk of it being rendered in-operational by flooding, but the hospital site is still vulnerable to the Davis Islands bridges being washed out during a hurricane.
  The hospital itself is now largely proofed against storms, despite the continuing vulnerability of the island it sits upon.  Recent building work in the 21st century, on the Bayshore Pavilion, has incorporated many of the hospital design recommendations of Washington Hospital Center's ER One project.  All critical functions have been placed at or above the second level of the building, above the storm surge level, placing emergency room parking on the first level.
caption: One of the Aeromed helicopters operated by TGH
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