The carts rolled out of Tampa General Hospital like a parade Thursday afternoon, full of food and other goods destined for members of the U.S. Coast Guard as the partial federal government shutdown...
The alert went out to Tampa General Hospital team members at 8:50 a.m. Thursday: Code Green. The annual countywide mass casualty drill was underway.
In this year's drill, emergency workers...
Imagine a health care visit in which patients look like Winnie the Pooh, beleaguered doctors have become soulless “Doc Vader” machines, and Hogwarts owls have to fly in to help isolated medical...
If you're running the Gasparilla Distance Classic this year, we've got some great training moves for you, thanks to our expert trainers at the Tampa General Hospital Health and Wellness Center...
Christine and Clifford Stallworth planned to deliver their daughter at Tampa General Hospital, but baby Janine didn't want to wait for rush-hour traffic. Listen to their adventure!
Want to learn...
About 50 first and second grade students from St. Joseph Catholic School visited Tampa General Hospital on Tuesday for a lesson day called “Safe Walkers and Safe Wheels” by MORE HEALTH.
Each of...
The holiday season is always a special time at Tampa General Hospital. We are fortunate enough to receive many visitors who want to bring gifts and holiday cheer to our patients. We've collected the...
Florida has made progress in providing more graduate training for new doctors over the last four years, but the demand will continue to outstrip the supply, according to a new study released...
Adam Cage was sitting at a stoplight when he was hit by a box truck in 2013.
He’s learned a few things since then.
“It doesn’t matter who you are,” he said Tuesday at a gathering of fellow...
Tampa General Hospital Labor & Delivery nurse Katie Dean was already scheduled to work hurricane duty when Irma pushed towards Tampa Bay.
So she packed her sleeping bag and reported for duty...
When Avery Ranieri decided she wanted to sell lemonade to help sick children, she had no idea how big her effort would become.
But the lemonade stand that 9-year-old Avery hosted a few weeks ago...
Tampa couple Lucy Roldan-Castro and Jesus Martinez had planned to watch the eclipse Monday.
But their baby, due September 3rd, had other plans.
Roland-Castro went into labor at 4 a.m. Monday,...
Avery Ranieri isn’t just a kid with a lemonade stand.
She’s a 9-year-old on a mission.
Avery wants to help other children like her little brother, Evan Ranieri, who was born with kidney disease...
It was the last week before retirement for TGH’s Sharon Zegalia – but she still got to experience something new.
Zegalia, an Employee Health specialist who retired Friday after a combined 35 years...
The bell that rang out Friday afternoon at Tampa General Hospital marked a special victory for 13-year-old Katie Ballesteros.
The brand-new "chemo bell" was donated to the TGH Childlife Playroom...
15-year-old Briant Cummings smiled as he lifted his left hand and curled his fingers.
Ordinarily, it would be a small gesture.
But on this particular Wednesday, Briant’s action made the room...
Kenneth Brant had no idea he had liver cancer – let alone a cancer so advanced and aggressive that fighting it would require a surgery never done before at Tampa General Hospital.
After a bout...
Donovan Smith, co-owner of the NGALA Wildlife Preserve near Naples, has cared for Walter the rhino since the animal was about a year old.
Smith and Walter the rhino
So when rapidly-moving...
Six months after his kidney transplant, Michael Haggard and his wife Bekki made the journey from Miami to Tampa just to say four words: “Thank you for everything.”
Shay Manning, who was one of...
Before you go to the prom, please watch this message from our pediatric trauma surgeon, Dr. Noor Kassira:
Want some more good ideas for staying safe on prom night? Check out this page...
Tampa resident Curtistine Bryant was looking forward to a milestone event when she got the bad news.
Instead of looking forward to seeing her two granddaughters graduate from high school in May,...
Until last month, Jeanette Ebaugh was tethered to an oxygen tank, confined to her Port St. Lucie home. An incurable lung disease scarred her lungs, making it difficult to breathe.
But last month,...
Who wouldn’t want to balance a spinning plate? Clown Ambassador Thom Wheaton from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus visited Tampa General Hospital today. Wheaton passed out...
To honor World Prematurity Day, representatives from the March of Dimes visited parents in Tampa General Hospital’s Jennifer Leigh Muma Neonatal Intensive Care Unit on Thursday,...