Health system names new leader of hospital

BayCare Health System has promoted St. Joseph’s Hospital South President Philip Minden to president of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, effective immediately.

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According to a news release, Minden will continue to oversee St. Joseph’s Hospital South, which is in Riverview, during a national search for his successor. St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa is Clearwater-based BayCare’s largest hospital and only trauma center, and it recently celebrated the opening of an expansion that includes a new six-story patient tower; 10 surgical suites; emergency department expansion from 30 to 55 beds, including a new pediatric emergency department; and a new observation unit, neonatal intensive care unit and cardiac interventional radiology lab.