Bayfront Medical Center
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Bayfront Medical Center is a hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. A level two trauma center, this teaching hospital is not-for-profit and has received a number of awards including JCAHO, "Best Nursing Staff" in the Tampa Bay area, "Best Run Hospital", and is home to a helicopter transport program (Bayflite). It is located in downtown St. Petersburg only a few blocks from Tampa Bay. Bayfront is located outside of the flood and storm surge zones for even the largest hurricanes.
Bayfront was originally organized as the St. Petersburg Sanitarium in 1906, and over the next six decades redesignated as the Good Samaritan Hospital, Augusta Memorial Hospital, City Hospital, Mound Park Hospital, and finally, in 1968, Bayfront Medical Center.
Bayfront, in its Mound Park Hospital form, was mentioned in the Ian Fleming 007 novel "Live and Let Die".
