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Morton Plant Hospital

  Morton Plant Hospital
300 Pinellas Street
Clearwater, FL 33756
(727) 462-7000
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Morton Plant Hospital began seemingly by accident - an automobile accident.

In 1912, millionaire Morton Freeman Plant and his family were vacationing in Clearwater when his son Henry was severely injured in a car crash. With no hospital in town to treat his child, Plant ordered a railroad car equipped with medical supplies and personnel to be rushed from Chicago to Clearwater. For months, Henry recuperated in the makeshift hospital room parked alongside the Belleview Hotel where his family wintered.

Several years later, his son's misfortune prompted Plant to strike this deal with the town: if the residents raised the $20,000 necessary to build a hospital, he would establish a $100,000 endowment for it. Clearwater's citizens met the goal in a mere two months, and the Morton F. Plant Endowed Hospital opened on January 1, 1916. With 20 beds, five bassinets and one operating room, the two-story facility was the first hospital built in northern Pinellas County.

Almost a century later, Morton Plant Hospital is a nationally recognized 687-bed facility providing highly technical and specialized care to more than 50,000 patients annually. Working in more than 50 speciality areas, Morton Plant Hospital's board-certified physicians, Magnet-designated nurses and other skilled staff help take research, diagnostics and patient-centered care in bold new directions.

2006 Key Facts

Year Founded

1916

Beds

687

Physicians

749

Employees

2,820

Discharges

30,391

Births

3,892

ER Visits

55,744

Community Benefit*

$22,045,000

Outpatient Surgery (excluding endoscopy)

12,574

Lab Tests

2,040,989

Open Heart Surgeries

755

 * Community benefit is defined as charity care, Medicaid and county welfare programs, indigent care fund, and unbilled community services.