St Joseph’s Hospital

Tampa is quite lucky to have a large variety of general & specialty hospitals. I may be wrong, but I do believe that St. Joe’s was one of Tampa’s flagship hospitals.
Over the years I have spent a great deal of time here, with family, friends & unfortunately myself.
I detest their ER & and initial screening process, it is cold, impersonal and quite frankly disquesting.
As a Healthcare professional, I feel their services are adequate for everyday type of issues, but not your major life & death type of situations.
This hospital used to be fully staffed ²⁴⁄₇ & now you are lucky to find a few GP docs on hand. If you are having a heart attack or stroke, these docs, certainally are not specialists.
I spent 8 days in the facility with phenumonia & bronchitis. After 8 days of being treated like a queen & receiving fabulous care, I was discharged, without being out of bed for 8 days & offered a bus pass. Yeah, I really think their discharge planning needs a lot of work & professionalism.
It is clean, efficient & overall a good general hospital. I would be very leary about having major surgeries: heart, brain, lung… at this facility. It is a general type of hospital good for general physical problems, not the life threatening variety.
What’s a girl to do? Go to the best facility possible for your ailments.