Updates and renovations are one thing. Building the area's newest hospital from the ground up is another beast. ...more

December 5, 2009

On any given day, dozens of families could wind up in special maternity units, delivering babies weeks or months early. ...more

November 27, 2009

Grants have been awarded to several area groups: •The March of Dimes awarded $90,000 to the Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County for the first year of a three-year grant to help save at-risk babies. The program will focus on the overall wellness of mothers of babies in Tampa General Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). ...more

May 23, 2009

Nadya Suleman apparently has bigger worries than taking care of her 14 children. Talk show host Phil McGraw says she may have to prove she can handle the load, or else have hospital officials withhold her newborn octuplets. ...more

February 26, 2009

Nadya Suleman apparently has bigger worries than taking care of her 14 children. Talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw says she may have to prove she can handle the load, or else have hospital officials withhold her newborn octuplets. ...more

February 25, 2009

Miss America made her first visit this morning as the official goodwill ambassador for the Children's Miracle Network, an organization that raises millions each year for hospitals across the country. And she did so at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg. "This is my very, very first day on the job," said Katie Stam, 22, who was Miss Indiana before she was crowned Miss America on Jan. 24. "I've been so excited and so anxious to start this work." ...more

February 3, 2009

It's New Year's Eve, and there is a dance at the West Tampa Convention Center designed to take partygoers back in time. ...more

December 31, 2008

For some new nurses, it was the fear. They feared putting an intravenous catheter into a baby for the first time. They feared talking to their supervisors. They feared failure. ...more

December 10, 2008

For some new nurses, it was the fear. They feared putting an intravenous catheter into a baby for the first time. They feared talking to their supervisors. They feared failure. ...more

December 9, 2008

There is no shouting here. In the neonatal intensive care unit at Tallahassee Memorial hospital, nurses' voices are restrained even as they rush in with new patients and gently push needles into thread-thin veins. Too much stimulation can overwhelm their tiny charges. With underdeveloped lungs, babies cannot cry out. ...more

November 28, 2008