TAMPA BAY METRO CITY GUIDE
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2026 TAMPA BAY
HEALTH & WELLNESS GUIDE
Tampa Bay offers comprehensive medical coverage with hospitals and health systems that span a full spectrum of care—from primary and preventive services to advanced specialty treatment. Residents and visitors alike benefit from convenient access to emergency rooms, urgent-care centers, outpatient clinics, and state-of-the-art surgical and diagnostic facilities located throughout the region. Whether seeking routine care or highly specialized services, the area’s expansive healthcare network ensures quality treatment is always within reach, from Tampa to Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Pasco County and beyond.
Tampa Bay offers comprehensive medical coverage with hospitals and health systems that span a full spectrum of care—from primary and preventive services to advanced specialty treatment. Residents and visitors alike benefit from convenient access to emergency rooms, urgent-care centers, outpatient clinics, and state-of-the-art surgical and diagnostic facilities located throughout the region. Whether seeking routine care or highly specialized services, the area’s expansive healthcare network ensures quality treatment is always within reach, from Tampa to Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Pasco County and beyond.
BayCare Health System is a leading not-for-profit network operating 16 community-based hospitals across Tampa Bay and Central Florida providing a broad array of services including acute care, cardiac, pediatric and behavioral health, urgent care, outpatient imaging, home care and more. The mission at BayCare is to provide high-quality, compassionate care to all they serve.
Standout hospitals in the area include St. Joseph’s Hospital and its nearby St. Jospeh’s Children’s Hospital and St. Joseph’s Women’s Hospital.
The BayCare network makes high-quality care widely accessible. BayCare’s Urgent Care centers (for minor emergencies, sick visits, physicals, etc.) are spread throughout the region — ideal for quick, convenient care when you don’t need a full hospital visit.
Tampa General Hospital is the region’s only academic health system —
a 1,529-bed, not-for-profit hospital recognized repeatedly as the #1 hospital in Tampa Bay. For 2025-26, Tampa General Hospital is the highest-ranked hospital in Tampa Bay in U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-2026 Best Hospitals, with six medical specialties ranking among the top 50 in the nation and five additional medical specialties ranked among the top 10% best hospital programs in the United States.
As the first hospital in Florida to open a clinical command center for real-time situational awareness, Tampa General has elevated its digital care coordination center to the next level by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and its analytics platform across inpatient and outpatient care to ensure patients receive leading-edge care as quickly and safely as possible. The Wallace Trama Center at TGH is the area’s only Level 1 Trama Center and TGH is one of just two adult and pediatric ABA-verifited burn centers in Florida. TGH is the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. TGH is one of Florida’s busiest adult organ transplant centers; nationally accredited stroke, neonatal ICU and neuroscience & ICU departments; a full neonatal, rehab, and outpatient surgery program. Today, the Tampa General Health system includes six hospitals, over 150 locations and nearly 15,000 team members and providers.
TGH also operate a network of walk-in urgent care centers (TGH Urgent Care powered by Fast Track) across Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties — with on-site X-rays, labs, EKGs, pediatric care and even virtual health options.
AdventHealth’s Tampa hospital is part of a broader network delivering whole-person care (mind, body, and spirit). The mission — Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ — and promise to their patients are to make them feel whole through compassionate care and world-class expertise. The Tampa location is consistently highly rated — recently named by U.S. News & World Report among the Best Hospitals in Florida for 2024-2025, placing it among the top three in Tampa Bay. Hospitals are located in Carrollwood, Connerton, Dade City, North Pinellas, Tampa, Wesley Chapel and Zephyrhills.
AdventHealth Tampa is noted for surgical care through its Taneja Center for surgery – state-of-the-art operating rooms and inpatient suites, and strong performance in multiple procedures and conditions. There are also outpatient clinics, skilled nursing facetious and home health agencies to provide wholistic care.
Moffitt Cancer Center is Florida’s only National Cancer Institute–designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Moffitt offers top-tier oncology care and cutting-edge research. The mission at Moffitt is to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer. This makes Moffitt Tampa Bay’s go-to destination for complex, multidisciplinary cancer treatment. Moffitt is at the very forefront of cancer centers worldwide and participates in over 400 clinical trials. Equipped with top research and care experts working side by side, Moffitt is positioned to revolutionize cancer treatment, elevate care and save more lives. Services include infusion therapy, radiation, PET/CT/MRI diagnostics, cancer screenings, reconstructive care, nutrition & wellness support and access to clinical trials — all supported by dedicated research and patient-care facilities.
Moffitt also extends its reach beyond the main campus: for example, the outpatient facility in Wesley Chapel brings oncology and infusion services to Pasco County residents.
Orlando Health is a large not-for-profit healthcare network — widely recognized for its trauma, pediatric, women’s and newborn care, surgical services and broad specialty care across many hospitals. While its core hospitals are in Central Florida, many Tampa Bay residents and patients utilize Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital in St. Petersburg for care that recently celebrated five years of being part of the Orlando Health System. Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital is Pinellas County’s only adult trauma center. Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital also offers emergency care, maternity, imaging and lab services, primary adult care, rehabilitation services, specialty adult care and urgent care. The mission at Orlando Health is to improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve. Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital earned an ‘A’ safety rating from the Leapfrog Group and the emergency department received the Emergency Nurses Association’s Lantern Award.
HCA Florida Healthcare has over 650 affiliated sites of care with the network of hospitals, surgery centers, urgent care centers and doctors offices. As part of the larger HCA Florida network, facilities like HCA Florida South Tampa Hospital provide 24/7 emergency care, orthopedic/spine services, robotic and minimally invasive surgeries, cardiac imaging, and bariatric care — delivering patient-focused, community-level acute care. Private rooms, new technology and recent renovations allows the hospital to deliver high-quality emergency medicine with primary stroke certification, diagnostic procdures, advanced cardiac imaging, general and robotic surgery and acute care. Recently the HCA Florida South Tampa hospital launched the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery Research Center to include advancing innovation in endocrine tumor treatment through research. HCA Florida Brandon Hospital offers 24/7 ER, along with Heart and Vascular Center, Level III neonatal intensive care unit, along with The Women’s Center and Baby Suites. HCA also has hospital locations in Pinellas including Northside Hospital specializing in Cardiology with heart and vascular surgery and Neurological care.
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital is the region’s leading pediatric center — serving infants, children and teens with expert care across more than 50 medical and surgical subspecialties, supported by 590+ physicians and specialists. The hospital’s core services include its Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute, Heart Institute, Brain Protection/Neurology services, Neonatal & Maternal-Fetal care, as well as general and specialty pediatric surgery.
In addition to inpatient and emergency care at its main campus, All Children’s extends care throughout the region via a network of outpatient care centers — for example an outpatient facility in Tampa offering pediatric cardiology, endocrinology, neurology, oncology, imaging (MRI, X-ray), rehabilitation and more. M
