AdventHealth Tampa

University Community Hospital, Inc. (doing business as AdventHealth Tampa) is a non-profit hospital campus in Tampa, Florida, United States. It became part of AdventHealth following a merger with University Community Health in September 2010. The medical facility is a tertiary, teaching hospital and comprehensive stroke center that has multiple specialties. In 1995, University Community Hospital had multiple medical errors, that led it to be investigated by the Agency for Health Care Administration and Health Care Finance Administration. In 2015, a murder-suicide took place at the hospital, between a man and his stepdaughter.

In early July 1993, University Community Hospital agreed to purchase Centurion Hospital of Carrollwood from Centurion Health of Carrollwood for $17.4 million. The sale had to be approved by creditors and the United States bankruptcy court. In early November, University Community Hospital officially took over the management of Centurion Hospital of Carrollwood and renamed it to University Community Hospital-Carrollwood. In late April 1998, the board of University Community Hospital unanimously approved to create a joint venture with Adventist Health System. The new company included the hospitals University Community Hospital, University Community Hospital-Carrollwood and East Pasco Medical Center in Zephyrhills.

On September 1, 2000, University Community Hospital took over the management of Helen Ellis Memorial Hospital, after getting approval from the city commission government of Tarpon Springs and from voters on a 40-year lease. On September 1, 2010, University Community Hospital became part of Adventist Health System. This happened after University Community Health merged with Adventist Health System. In late September 2011, University Community Hospital was rebranded to Florida Hospital Tampa. On August 23, 2016, the hospital opened a ten room pediatric emergency department. In the summer of 2018, the hospital announced that construction had begun on an expansion project for $256 million. It would include a six-story, 300,000 square foot (28,000 m2) surgical tower, with twenty-four operating theatres, 100 private patient beds and a power plant. The cost increased to $300 million. On October 17, there was a groundbreaking for the Taneja Center for Innovative Surgery, the largest expansion in the history of the hospital. On January 2, 2019, Florida Hospital Tampa rebranded to AdventHealth Tampa. In May 2020, there was a topping out of the surgical tower. On October 12, 2021, the Taneja Center for Innovative Surgery opened. The majority of the money for the surgical tower was donated by an Indian couple from Largo, Florida, after their 44-year old son had died from glioblastoma. The surgical tower was designed by HuntonBrady Architects and was built by Robins & Morton, it was expected to create 587 new jobs in five years. On December 16, 2020, frontline workers at AdventHealth Tampa received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. In 2021, the hospital treated about 17,000 patients yearly. On January 1, 2021, all hospitals were required to have their chargemaster on its website by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In a survey done in 2022, the majority of hospitals in Florida including AdventHealth Tampa had failed to comply with the Hospital Price Transparency Law. It was not until early February 2023, that the hospital was in full compliance with the law. In early September 2022, AdventHealth Tampa spent $2 million to upgrade its catheterization laboratory with the GE Allia from GE HealthCare, and a new single monitoring unit from Carrot Medical. In early March 2023, AdventHealth Tampa opened a twenty bed unit to treat patients with advanced stages of heart disease. In late January 2025, the

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