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Growing again
By LISA GREENE, Times Staff Writer
Published December 30, 2007
Hospital officials like to say that the first plans for Tampa General Hospital were drawn in a sand trap during a golf game. With Tampa Bay's top trauma hospital putting the finishing touches on its latest $190-million expansion, here's a look at how things have changed since then.
BY THE NUMBERS
1985: First heart transplant performed
700+: Heart transplants performed
4: Florida burn care centers, including Tampa General
7: Florida top-level trauma centers, including Tampa General
1.7-million square feet: Size
24: National rank, orthopedics, according to U.S. News & World Report hospital rankings
25: National rank, gynecology, according to U.S. News & World Report
65,000: Emergency patients each year
1,200: Affiliated doctors
5,000: Employees
186 Original beds
877 Today
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