St. Joseph's Hospital Celebrates 75 years of Caring
For Tampa Bay

The Beginning
In 1933, a small group of Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, New York arrived in Tampa and found a city badly in need of medical facilities.  By October 1934 they had purchased a partially finished hospital and completed construction.  Such was the beginning of St. Joseph's Hospital.  This hospital contained an emergency room, rooms to accommodate 40 patients, two large operating rooms, an obstetrical delivery room, laboratory, pharmacy, kitchen and dining rooms, and what was considered the most advanced x-ray department in the state.  The rest, as the cliché goes, is history as St. Joseph's hospital continued to grow and add services to meet the needs of the Tampa community:

  1934 - Original St. Joseph's Hospital opens
1951 - New wing with 75 additional beds added   
     
1953 - East wing with 50 additional beds added

 1955 - 50 additional beds added





1967 - New 400 bed St. Joseph's Hospital opens at current location

1969 - New Fred J. Woods Radiation Therapy Center opens

1970 - Eight floor, 88 bed children's "Penthouse" added, 40-bed Mental Health Center opens

 1977 - Coronary care unit opens

1979 - Cardiac Catheterization lab opens

1983 - 60 bed Cancer Center opens, Cardiac Surgery Unit opens

1990 - St. Joseph's Children's Hospital of Tampa opens

1993 - St. Joseph's Women's Hospital opens

2009 - St. Joseph's Hospital's 75th Year  

 2010 - St. Joseph's Hospital-North opens

Core Purpose and Values
While much has changed over the past 75 years, our commitment to providing our special brand of compassionate care remains. The environment where patients are treated with dignity and respect while receiving the most advanced care continues.
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The Present
With three award winning hospitals, St. Joseph's, we provide specialized medical care and feature the Steinbrenner Emergency/Trauma Center, Cancer Institute, Heart Institute, children's Hematology/Oncology, Stroke & Neuroscience program, high-risk obstetrics unit, Breast Center and Neonatal Intensive Care unit (NICU). We are fortunate to have our children's heart program, recognized throughout the southeastern U.S. for exceptional care.

The Future-A New, Full Service Hospital with 75 years of Experience.
In early 2010, we will bring our special brand of care to north Tampa with the opening of St. Joseph's Hospital-North, the first new full service hospital in Hillsborough County in over 30 years. St. Joseph's Hospital-North will have a soothing environment with meticulous attention to patient and visitor comfort while delivering the most advanced technology available.

Features:

• All digital, wireless and paperless including medical records
• On-demand in-room entertainment
• Indoor air quality controls, natural lighting and noise reduction
• All private rooms
• Full-service 30-bed ER
• Digital surgical suites
• Interventional treatment center with labs for cardiac and imaging procedures
• Women's care center: obstetrics, gynecological, surgical
• All-digital Imaging Center: MRI, stereotactic, 64-slice CT, mammography, bone density, nuclear medicine, ultrasound

This facility, and the committed physicians, nurses and staff will continue the St. Joseph's Hospital commitment to quality care. The opening of this hospital will be the culminating event of our 75th anniversary celebration and will be our gift to the Tampa community.  It represents the care and service of our past and defines the innovation and vision of our future.