Friday, November 14, 2008

James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital

13000 Bruce B. Downs Blvd.

Tampa, FL 33612

Phone: (813) 972-2000 or (888) 716-7787 (in State)

Fax: (813) 972-7673

The James A. Haley VA Medical Center is a 327 bed tertiary care teaching hospital, with 300 authorized nursing home care beds (180 in Tampa, and 120 beds in Orlando) and is dedicated to providing the highest quality of patient care and services to veterans in Central Florida. The full range of inpatient and outpatient care is provided including Medicine (111 beds), Surgical (61 beds), Psychiatry (50 beds), Neurology (7 beds), as well as a 60-bed Spinal Cord Injury Service, a 38 bed Comprehensive Rehabilitation Center. Tampa is also responsible for one major Satellite Outpatient Clinic in New Port Richey, as well as one Readjustment Counseling Center in Tampa. Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) are located in various counties throughout Central Florida such as; Lakeland (Polk), Brooksville (Hernando); and Zephyrhills (Pasco).The Tampa VAMC and its facilities serves veterans in four counties of Central Florida: Hernando, Hillsborough, Polk and Pasco.

AFFILIATIONS
The hospital is affiliated with the University of South Florida College of Medicine in North Tampa, developing a unique and very close professional relationship. Residency training programs are provided to 130 residents in most of the medical and surgical subspecialties, as well as Pathology, Psychiatry, and Radiology. An active teaching role has been developed through our formal affiliation with the College of Medicine at the University of South Florida. To accomplish the hospital's mission of patient care, medical education and research, a complete range of medical, surgical and psychiatric subspecialty services are provided. Residency training programs approved by the American Medical Association are provided in the following specialties: Internal Medicine, Orthopedics, Hematology, Pathology, Radiosurgery, Ophthalmology, Dermatology, Podiatry, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Urology, Nephrology, General Surgery, Otolaryngology, Psychiatry, Radiology

AUTHORIZED BEDS
358 Authorized
300 Authorized/180 Operating Tampa, 118 Operating Orlando NHCU
60 Authorized/30 Operating Orlando Domiciliary

TYPE OF FACILITY
The hospital was activated in 1972 and is affiliated with the University of South Florida College of Medicine in North Tampa. The hospital is staffed and equipped to perform many highly specialized procedures required by the professional staff.

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