St. Joseph's Hospital | |||||||||||||||
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![]() Entrance to the Emergency Center at St. Joseph's Hospital | |||||||||||||||
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Geography | |||||||||||||||
Location | 3001 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Tampa, Florida, United States | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 27°58′55.24″N82°29′29.80″W / 27.9820111°N 82.4916111°W | ||||||||||||||
Organization | |||||||||||||||
Care system | Private | ||||||||||||||
Funding | Non-profit hospital | ||||||||||||||
Type | Community | ||||||||||||||
Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic | ||||||||||||||
Affiliated university | None | ||||||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||||||
Emergency department | Level II Adult Trauma Center / Level II Pediatric Trauma Center | ||||||||||||||
Beds | 615 | ||||||||||||||
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Helipad | FAA LID: FL38 | ||||||||||||||
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History | |||||||||||||||
Construction started | 1963 | ||||||||||||||
Opened | 1934 | ||||||||||||||
Links | |||||||||||||||
Website | stjosephstampa | ||||||||||||||
Lists | Hospitals in Florida |
St. Joseph's Hospital is a private, not-for-profit 615-bed [1] [2] community hospital in Tampa, Florida. [3] It was founded by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany in 1934, [1] [4] and was part of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany Health System alongside St. Anthony's Hospital in neighboring St. Petersburg. Both became part of the BayCare Health System in July 1997. [5]
The St. Joseph's Emergency Center claims to be the busiest in Tampa Bay, with 74,790 ER visits in 2023, [1] and is a Level II trauma center. [6]
The hospital was originally opened in July 1932 [7] by Dr. W. H. Dyer as Tampa Heights Hospital [8] who operated the 1st and 2nd floors as a clinic.
It was acquired by the Franciscan Sisters in the Fall of 1933. [9] A $150,000 renovation followed, with a modern fourth floor suite of operating rooms, x-ray rooms, a pharmacy, morgue, and doctors’ quarters added, with the finished facility said to be capable of accommodating 100 patients. [10] The refurbished hospital, located at the corner of Morgan Street and 7th Avenue, [10] was relaunched as St. Joseph's Hospital on October 1, 1934. [11]
The current location opened on March 19, 1967, [11] on what was then known as Buffalo Avenue.