HCA Florida Largo Hospital

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HCA Florida Largo Hospital
Hospital Corporation of America
HCA Florida Largo Hospital
Geography
Location201 14th St SW Largo, FL 33770, Largo, Florida, United States
Organization
Funding For-profit hospital
Type Teaching
Services
Beds455 [1]
History
Opened1978 [2]
Links
Website www.hcafloridahealthcare.com/locations/largo-hospital
Lists Hospitals in Florida

HCA Florida Largo Hospital, formerly Largo Medical Center, is a 455-bed teaching hospital located in Largo, in the US state of Florida. The hospital has three campuses in Largo and in Clearwater, employs approximately 1,700 people, [1] and is owned by Hospital Corporation of America, a Nashville, Tennessee-based company. As a teaching facility, HCA Florida Largo Hospital operates a number of residency programs. [3] [4] The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission. [5]

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History

From orthopedics to spine, and wound care to services healing an ailing heart the HCA Florida Largo Hospital has grown to provide some of the most comprehensive healthcare services in the area. Largo Medical Center opened in 1978 with Jack Bovender as the hospital's Chief Executive Officer. He later went on to become CEO of Hospital Corporation of America now known as HCA Healthcare, the parent company of HCA Florida Largo Hospital. Today the hospital's CEO is Adam Rudd.

The hospital was the first in Pinellas County to acquire a surgical robot in the year 2000. In 2008, the hospital's second campus on Indian Rocks Road was purchased, adding behavioral health and inpatient rehabilitation to the services provided. The Florida Breast Institute opened the same year. In 2013, surgeons starting performing bariatric surgery and it was in 2015 that kidney transplants began to be followed by liver transplants and now the hospital performs heart transplantation.

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