SUN CITY CENTER, Fla. — Tampa General Hospital is hosting a ribbon cutting Thursday of its new Heart and Vascular Institute in Sun City Center.

It’s part of a broader move by TGH to expand to population centers south of Tampa.

The new clinic is a joint effort between TGH’s Heart Failure Center and USF Cardiology.


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The clinic will staff highly trained doctors, nurses and clinicians and include everything you’d expect when visiting a heart doctor like treadmills for stress tests, echocardiograms and other equipment to conduct heart failure studies.

Last fall, TGH announced plans for a facility to serve Charlotte and Lee counties.

It will build a 6500-square-foot facility in Babcock Ranch north of Fort Myers.

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