VA Pharmacy Residencies in Tampa, Florida

Introduction

The James A. Haley VA Hospital & Clinics is one of the busiest of the nation's 164 Veterans Administration hospitals and the fifth most complex in terms of medical care provided. The hospital serves over 150,000 veterans in the area. In 2007, Haley posted over 1 million outpatient visits (Tampa Tribune, June 11,2008) and over 13,000 inpatient admissions. By the end of fiscal year 2007, 116,031 unique patients had received care from our hospital. (St. Petersburg Times, Oct 15, 2008)

The James A. Haley VA Medical Center itself is a 327 bed tertiary care teaching hospital, with 180 authorized nursing home care beds 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

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.

Special Programs

Some of the sophisticated capabilities and special programs available to patients are:



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