Tampa General Hospital

Background Information
Tampa General Hospital (TGH), Tampa, FL
Legal Structure, Governance, and Mission

Ownership: Private non-profit (Florida Health Sciences Center, Inc., d.b.a. Tampa General)
Governance: TGH Board of Directors
Governance Change:
− From hospital authority to a new non-profit under terms of a lease (1997)
− The Hillsborough County Hospital Authority is created and governed by Special Act of the
legislature, Chapter 96-449, Laws of Florida, as amended. Until October 1, 1997, the Authority
owned and operated Tampa General Hospital. On October 1, 1997, Florida Health Sciences
Center, Inc., assumed responsibility for owning and operating Tampa General Hospital pursuant
to a Lease Agreement entered into with the Authority. Since the Authority no longer operates the
hospital, its mission has evolved into a monitoring role in connection with the Lease and a
commitment to the provision of health services to indigent citizens of Hillsborough County.1
Operation: Private non-profit
Mission: TGH is the area’s only level I trauma center and one of just four burn centers in Florida.
With five medical helicopters we are able to transport critically injured or ill patients from 23
surrounding counties to receive the advanced care they need. The hospital is home to one of the
leading organ transplant centers in the country, having performed more than 6,000 adult solid organ
transplants, including the state’s first successful heart transplant in 1985. TGH is a state-certified
comprehensive stroke center, and its 32-bed Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit is the largest on the
west coast of Florida. Other outstanding centers include cardiovascular, orthopedics, high risk and
normal obstetrics, urology, ENT, endocrinology, and the Children's Medical Center, which features a
nine-bed pediatric intensive care unit and one of just three outpatient pediatric dialysis units in the
state. As the region's leading safety net hospital, Tampa General is committed to providing area
residents with excellent and compassionate health care ranging from the simplest to the most complex
medical services.2
Beds: 1,004 total beds (945 acute care and 59 rehabilitation care beds)
Employees: 6,700
Clinics: ?
Sunshine and Sovereign Immunity

Sunshine: Yes Sovereign Immunity: ?
Hospital or Health System: Hospital
Board and Autonomy: 15 member, volunteer Board of Directors
Financial Relationship with County/City: TGH receives patients funded by the Hillsborough
County ½ cent sales tax. That tax was authorized by the Legislature at the same time Miami-Dade’s
was, However, at the county level it was implemented through extraordinary vote of the then County
Commission, and used to create the HC Health Care Plan. TGH is one, but not the only hospital in the
Plan’s provider network.

1
Extract from Hospital Authority Non‐Binding Request for Information (RFI) For Funding Opportunities Related to Health
Related Services for Indigent Residents, dated February 2, 2007
2
Extract from TGH website, http://www.tgh.org/index.htm
Background Information
Tampa General Hospital (TGH), Tampa, FL
Budget Approval
− Operating: TGH Board of Directors
− Capital: ?
Teaching Hospital: Yes, academic. TGH is affiliated with the University of South Florida College Of
Medicine and serves as the primary teaching hospital for the university.
Independence: The Authority does not operate, manage or oversee the operations of TGH, and has
had no claims since leasing the hospital facilities to FHSC.3
Medical Staff
− Staffing: 1200 Community and university affiliated physicians
285 Resident physicians
− Physicians’ compensation for indigent care: ?
− Physicians’ compensation for teaching: ?
Unions: Not unionized
Unfunded Care (2009 Annual Report)

− How funded, percent funded, & limits: Medicaid 14%, HCHCP 3%, Charity 7%
− Indigent care: $917 million
CARE PROVIDED TO as a % as a % of as a % of
INDIGENT PATIENTS 2009 of total 2008 total 2007 total
Charges Foregone
Medicaid $545,186 14% $429,226 13% $348,077 12%
HCHCP 120,281 3% 101,789 3% 94,855 3%
Charity 251,159 7% 230,786 7% 187,672 7%
Total Indigent $916,626 24% $761,801 24% $630,604 22%

Hospital Gross
Charges $3,789,550 $3,201,371 $2,832,205
Payor Mix (2009 Annual Report)

− Managed care: 39.5%
− Medicare: 27.3%
− Medicaid & Hillsborough County Health Plan: 18.0%
− All other: 15.2%
Revenues (2009 Annual Report) – TGH fiscal year ending September 30, 2009
− Medicare $545 million
− Medicaid and Hillsborough County Health Plan $128 million
− Charity Care $251 million
− Total Revenue $993 million

3
Extract from Hospital Authority Request for Quotations For Not‐For‐Profit Individual and Organization Directors and
Officers Liability Insurance Coverage for the Hillsborough County Hospital Authority

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Background Information

Tampa General Hospital (TGH), Tampa, FL

Legal Structure, Governance, and Mission

Sunshine and Sovereign Immunity

Hospital or Health System: Hospital

Board and Autonomy: 15 member, volunteer Board of Directors

Unions: Not unionized

Unfunded Care (2009 Annual Report)

Medicaid $545,186 14% $429,226 13% $348,077 12%

HCHCP 120,281 3% 101,789 3% 94,855 3%

Charity 251,159 7% 230,786 7% 187,672 7%

Total Indigent $916,626 24% $761,801 24% $630,604 22%

Payor Mix (2009 Annual Report)

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