Take “15 minutes for your health” and join The Tampa Bay Buccaneer Cheerleaders, Captain Fear and a surprise Buccaneers Player at Florida Hospital Tampa’s Pepin Heart Institute on February 28.

Florida Hospital Tampa, through its Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute, will present “Heart Health Awareness” night during the Tampa Bay Lightning home game on Thursday, February 6 at The Forum.

Brian Adams, current President/CEO for Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel, has accepted the position of President/CEO for Florida Hospital Tampa effective February 1, 2014.  Adams will be replacing John Harding, who is retiring after 26 years of serving in with Adventist Health System.

Florida Hospital Tampa is elevating health care for the Tampa Bay community with the expansion of the Women’s Health Pavilion and the creation of a new Emergency Department.

Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute is first in Tampa Bay to offer the revolutionary new implantable defibrillator from Boston Scientific, called the S-ICD System, for patients at risk of sudden cardiac arrest. The S-ICD System sits just below the skin without the need for thin, insulated wires...

Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute and Dr. Kiran C. Patel Research Institute announced the first patient, a 59 year old Clearwater man, has been treated as part of the ATHENA clinical trial. The trial, sponsored by San Diego-based Cytori Therapeutics, derives stem cells from the patient’s own...

Florida Hospital Tampa's Wound Healing Institute received accreditation by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS), a program that recognizes clinical hyperbaric facilities demonstrating commitment to patient care and facility safety.

It’s the season of giving thanks and reflecting. Today Sean McNamee, a former patient, came back to Florida Hospital Tampa to visit with the Florida Hospital Tampa medical team who helped save his life.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced details surrounding the team’s second annual Buccaneers Fitness Challenge, presented by Florida Hospital, which will take place prior to the November 17 game versus the Atlanta Falcons.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month and Florida Hospital is officially turning The Tampa Bay Times Forum “pink” as it presents one special night dedicated to enlisting folks in the “Pink Army” declaring war on breast cancer during the Tampa Bay Lightning home game on Thursday, October...

Florida Hospital Tampa has earned advanced certification for heart failure and primary stroke center designation from The Joint Commission, in conjunction with the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association, by demonstrating compliance with the Joint Commission’s national...

The top two ranked healthcare providers in Florida, Tampa General Hospital and Florida Hospital Tampa Bay Network, have agreed to jointly develop new clinical programs and services throughout the Greater Tampa Bay Area.

In a sea of pewter and red, Florida Hospital and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced a new partnership focused on improving the health of the Tampa Bay community and beyond. The two organizations solidified the partnership by exchanging jerseys and white coats during the first of many community...

Florida Hospital Tampa is rated highest for overall surgical safety in the Tampa Bay area based on surgical mortality and length of stay data for 27 common surgeries by Consumer Reports. The Consumer Reports Surgical Safety rating is based on Medicare data from 2009 to 2011.

ABC Action News anchor, Wendy Ryan, has been living with heartburn and GERD most of her life. She recently learned that years of taking proton-pump inhibitors can cause serious, even life-threatening, damage. Follow her on her journey from diagnosis to surgery to recovery with Dr. Alexander...

Florida Hospital Tampa is partnering with Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS) to design and implement programs providing education, support and development to the whole child and community at large, with a special emphasis on health-related initiatives and those events which include studying...

Florida Hospital Tampa is among an elite group of hospitals across the United States offering fully robotic Whipple surgery with Dr. Alexander Rosemurgy and Dr. Sharona Ross. The operation, also called a pancreaticoduodenectomy, is the most common surgical treatment for cancerous or benign tumors...

Today, Florida Hospital Tampa welcomed Sunshine Radiology, LLC, as its strategic business partner and provider of diagnostic imaging services at the hospital. Sunshine Radiology, LLC, was founded in 2008 to meet the needs of Adventist Health System hospitals.

The EarlySense system offers medical professionals the ability to identify early warning signs of patient safety risk and a decline in health. Without ever physically touching the patient, the system measures heart rate, respiration rate, patient movement while in bed, and how often a patient...

  Florida Hospital Tampa’s “go green” initiatives significantly impacts the Tampa Bay region in a positive way throughout the year. Florida Hospital Tampa and Stericycle are both committed to keeping the environment safe.

The Florida Hospital Tampa Lung Institute officially opens its doors. The new Lung Institute is dedicated to providing comprehensive care for a wide range of pulmonary conditions including lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or emphysema, asthma, pulmonary hypertension,...

Florida Hospital Tampa is celebrating a successful first year as the only Outpatient Therapy Center in Tampa Bay offering both Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) for speech communication (LSVT LOUD) and physical/occupational therapy (LSVT BIG) therapy programs.

Florida Hospital Tampa is elevating health care in Tampa Bay and working with the Tampa Bay Lightning to keep the community healthy and strong. The puck drops at 7:30pm, Monday March 18, as the Bolts “face-off” against the Flyers.

The keynote speaker at the City of Tampa's 17th Annual Women’s History Month Celebration will be Sharona B. Ross, M.D. FACS, Founder & Director, FHT Women In Surgery Initiative, Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery & Surgical Endoscopy, Florida Hospital Tampa. Dr. Ross is a highly acclaimed...

 Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute is first in the Tampa Bay region to perform the AngioVac procedure on two patients suffering from blocked clots. Interventional Cardiologists, Dr. Vasco Marques and Dr. Asad Sawar use a device called the AngioVac Cannula and Circuit to successfully...

Florida Hospital Tampa is offering a free three-part health series called “Half of All Women.” The series ties in fun activities like salsa lessons, and women’s finances while informing women they are not alone on common female issues, and how they can take action for their health.

February is National Heart Month and Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute will officially turn the Tampa Bay Times Forum “red” as it presents “Heart Health Awareness” night during the Tampa Bay Lightning home game on Tuesday, February 26 at the Forum. The puck drops at 7:30pm as the Bolts “face-...

Cardiovascular disease specialists at Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute and Dr. Kiran C. Patel Research Institute, affiliated with the University of South Florida, announced today they have enrolled their first two patients into a clinical trial testing a novel gene therapy for the treatment...

Florida Hospital Tampa is teaming up with the Tampa Bay Lightning as an official sponsor and is the Proud Health and Wellness Partner for the Tampa Bay Lightning and Tampa Bay Times Forum. The formal sponsorship agreement is for three years.

Florida Hospital Tampa is leading the way with the safest and most advanced surgical techniques available today. Advanced Laparoscopic and Robotic Hepatopancreaticobiliary and Foregut Surgeons, Dr. Sharona Ross and Dr. Alexander Rosemurgy have performed more than 100 LESS cholecystectomy surgeries...

Today Tampa Bay Bucs players Keith Tandy and Chris Owusu visited patients at Florida Hospital… along with the Bucs Cheerleaders.

Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute has participated in two landmark studies that provide answers, giving researchers new information to move forward in heart stem cell therapy research. The clinical trial, called Transplantation In Myocardial Infarction Evaluation (TIME), was designed to see if...

Florida Hospital Tampa is starting three major construction projects including a new full-service Emergency Department (ED), expansion of The Women’s Center, and exterior and interior upgrades to the main hospital.

The Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute, located at Florida Hospital Tampa, is the first in west and central Florida and one of only a few in the nation to treat patients with a new catheter-based procedure that uses sutures to tie off the left atrial appendage (LAA). The new minimally invasive...

Florida Hospital Tampa is proud to announce Shelby Coriaty as this year’s winner of the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Health Care Hero Community Outreach award. The 9th annual “Health Care Heroes Awards” took place at The Vinoy Renaissance Resort & Golf Club in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, October...

When the Republican National Convention was in Tampa in August, leaders tapped Dr. Sharona Ross as the designated surgeon for the event. Dr. Ross is director of minimally invasive surgery and surgical endoscopy at the Florida Hospital Tampa Southeastern Center for Digestive Disorders Pancreatic...

Florida Hospital Tampa and Dr. James E. Lefler are the first in the Tampa Bay area to adopt the new FDA-approved device called the Trevo Pro Clot Retriever manufactured by Stryker. The Trevo Pro is the next generation in clot removal technology. This powerful new tool literally “retrieves” blood...

Today, Florida Hospital Tampa performed its first single-site incision robotic surgery procedure to remove a gallbladder, the first of its kind in the Tampa Bay area. Thanks to the latest breakthrough in minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery techniques, patients can now have their gallbladder...

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) has designated Florida Hospital Tampa as a Comprehensive Stroke Center. Florida Hospital Tampa is now one of only 18 AHCA-designated comprehensive stroke centers in the state of Florida and one of only three in Hillsborough County to earn...

Dr. James Lefler recently joined Florida Hospital Tampa as the co-director of the stroke program and resident expert in neurovascular and neurointerventional radiology at the Florida Hospital Tampa Neuroscience Institute. Board certified in Radiology, Dr. Lefler is also trained in a new specialty...

America’s Doctor, Dr. Mehmet Oz, two-time Emmy® Award-winning host of the two-time Emmy® Award-winning, nationally syndicated The Dr. Oz Show, will give the city of Tampa a “15 Minute Physical” in partnership with Florida Hospital Tampa, Alere, Inc. and Practice Fusion.

The hospital’s new computerized system incorporates electronic medical record (EMR) and computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems with bar-code scanning, which is designed to drastically reduce medical errors and streamline patient care. Florida Hospital Tampa now ranks in the top 5.5% of...

Through its daily mission of elevating healthcare in Tampa Bay, Florida Hospital Tampa has been recognized by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s (AHA/ASA) evidenced-based “Get With The Guidelines®—Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award” for its commitment and success...