Our Hospitals

All Children's Hospital

http://www.allkids.org

Located in downtown St. Petersburg, All Children's Hospital is one of only 48 freestanding children's hospitals in the U.S. and has the highest level of patient acuity in the country. The hospital's 216 beds include 60 acute and intermediate neonatal intensive care cribs, 12 surgical intensive care beds, eight medical intensive care beds, eight bone marrow transplant beds, the busiest pediatric heart surgery program in Florida, and the largest pediatric cancer program in the southeastern U.S. An 11,000 square-foot pediatric emergency center treats children from a wide referral region. Centers of excellence for pediatric cardiac surgery and cardiac transplantation, cystic fibrosis, cleft palate surgery and developmental pediatrics serve children from throughout Florida and the United States. Annual admissions at All Children's Hospital approximate 7,000.

Residents and medical students train with All Children's 130 pediatricians and subspecialists, who represent 35 medical and surgical specialties. A high concentration of tertiary referral patients means that residents are exposed to an intense variety of pathophysiology not available in other types of educational programs. Directly across the street from the hospital, outpatient programs are responsible for more than 90,000 outpatient visits yearly. The Children's Health Center also houses a General Pediatrics program, medical specialty clinics, and research laboratories for pediatric endocrinology, molecular genetics and immunology. The Children's Health Center connects to a freestanding Physicians Office Building, which houses the majority of faculty practices. Pediatric residents treat both community patients and referral tertiary care patients, affording exposure to a good cross-section of both aspects of pediatric care. Pediatric subspecialty satellite clinics in three neighboring counties serve a rapidly growing referral population and offer residents additional educational opportunities.

A new Pediatric Research Center, located on the USF/All Children's Hospital campus, opened in 2000. The 50,000 square-foot facility houses laboratories for basic research led by scientists, who hold endowed chairs in pediatrics. The ground floor is home to the Tampa Bay office of the Institute for Child Health Policy, a nationally recognized policy center that collaborates with USF, the University of Florida, and other academic centers. The remaining three floors are dedicated to laboratory space, where investigators share centralized bays of major instrumentation. The institute will be home to as many as 100 researchers in the fields of immunology, allergy, molecular genetics, cardiac transplantation, molecular cardiology, endocrinology, cancer research, developmental pediatrics and child health policy.

Learn about the new 1 million square foot Children's Hospital being built now! Visit All Children's Hospital at http://www.allkids.org.