HCA Florida Pasadena Hospital plans to stop traditional hospital operations and become a standalone emergency facility. Its emergency room would stay open around the clock, while inpatient care moves to other locations.
10 Tampa Bay reported the transition Wednesday.
The building has already had inpatient care pulled out of it once, under very different circumstances. On Friday afternoon, Sept. 27, 2024, the hospital temporarily closed after damage from Hurricane Helene, the St. Pete Catalyst reported. Patients had been transferred to other HCA Florida Healthcare facilities before the storm.
During preparations for the 2024 hurricanes, HCA Healthcare said a 6,500-square-foot flood-control barrier was deployed at the hospital, according to an HCA Healthcare account of that response.
The 2024 shutdown was temporary and storm-driven. This change is a planned rewrite of what the hospital does: emergency care stays on site, and patients who need a hospital bed are to be treated somewhere else.
