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At Tampa General, our heart failure program provides comprehensive services to improve heart failure care across all phases of a patient’s care journey – from prevention to end-stage treatment options. Since 1988, our cardiologists have cared for individuals with end-stage heart disease, providing the most advanced therapies like performing first successful heart transplant in the state. Today, we have a successful ventricular assist device (VAD) program and our Transplant Institute is one of the busiest and best in the country. All candidates for transplant are evaluated by the Heart Failure Center of Excellence to determine suitability for ventricular assist device (VAD) therapy and heart transplant.

Tampa General Hospital is a private not-for-profit hospital and one of the most comprehensive medical facilities in West Central Florida serving a dozen counties with a population in excess of 4 million. As one of the largest hospitals in Florida, Tampa General is licensed for 981 beds, and with more than 14,000 team members, is one of the region’s largest employers. Consistently recognized for world-class care, Tampa General Hospital was ranked as the #1 hospital in Tampa Bay by U.S. News & World Report for 2026-27.

An esophageal diverticulum is a pouch-like protrusion that can occur in a weak portion of the esophageal lining.

Cranial bleeding occurs within the skull but outside the brain tissue or within the brain tissue itself.