TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa General Hospital has opened an enhanced burn unit and intensive care unit to treat burn patients.

Tampa General’s 18-bed Burn Center includes a six-bed intensive care unit, a 12-bed wound care unit, treatment rooms and a burn operating room located within the unit.

Tampa General’s Burn Center, which treats critically burned patients from emergency admission through rehabilitation, is one of just five burn centers in Florida to have earned verification by the American Burn Association (ABA)/American College of Surgeons (ACS) and one of only two ABA-verified adult and pediatric burn centers in Florida.

This distinction means the center has met stringent guidelines for patient care procedures, facilities, and staffing.

“As one of the leading academic health systems in the country, each day we provide world-class care and leading-edge therapies to all who enter our doors,” said John Couris, president and CEO of Tampa General. “We are able to do this, in part, through our ongoing and significant investments in building physical patient care environments that leverage next-generation technologies to enhance care, support patients and families, and improve outcomes.

“The enhancement to our Burn Center — especially our Burn ICU — exemplifies this investment and, like the other components in our Master Facility Plan, will allow us to continue to offer transformational care in state-of-the-art spaces that serve patients from across our community and beyond.”