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Tampa General Hospital has begun its largest facilities upgrade and expansion in its 116-year history — a series of projects totaling $550 million scheduled for completion by 2026.
Details were announced in a four-page press release that touts the work as the hospital attempts “to become one of the safest and most innovative academic health systems in America.”
The plan, Kelly Cullen, executive vice president and COO at the hospital, says in the release “allows us to invest in innovation and supports the creation of tomorrow.”
“We are truly building the future.”
To that end, Tampa General already finished one of the major upgrades: A $17.5 million intensive care unit that opened in June. The ICU has 34 rooms and about 27,500 square feet in space. Each of the rooms can become negative air pressure rooms to better care for patients with infectious diseases.
The unit, hospital officials say, also has “patient rooms of the future.” According to the release, these are rooms equipped with advanced care technologies. These rooms allow doctors and nurses to provide virtual care where patients can “connect with their family/loved ones as well as physicians” and “support emergency events that uses technology in the rooms by automating code blue identification.”
The ICU increases the numbers of available beds at the hospital to 1,041.
In addition to the ICU, here are some of the other projects in the works at TGH:
Tampa General also plans to build a corporate parking garage, expand its energy plant and buy Hillsborough Community College's Davis Islands building, which is next to the main hospital campus.
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