{"id":166474,"date":"2026-02-24T02:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166474\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T02:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:36:06","slug":"tmh-responds-to-hospital-insider-comments-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166474\/","title":{"rendered":"TMH Responds to \u201cHospital Insider\u201d Comments \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2026%2F02%2F23%2Ftmh-responds-to-hospital-insider-comments%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=TMH+Responds+to+%26%238220%3BHospital+Insider%26%238221%3B+Comments https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2026\/02\/23\/tmh-responds-to-hospital-insider-comments\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive statement to TR, a TMH spokesperson distanced hospital leadership from comments attributed to a \u201chospital insider\u201d included in an article published by the Tallahassee Democrat where the \u201cinsider\u201d described the FSU\/TMH negotiations as \u201cstrained\u201d and provided comments that indicated a lack of progress in talks.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat reported the \u201chospital insider\u201d would only speak on background to avoid retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>The Tallahassee Democrat report came after the City of Tallahassee announced an agreement with FSU for the transfer of all City-owned hospital assets currently leased to TMH.\u00a0A public hearing is scheduled for the City Commission to take final action on March 11 at 9 a.m. in the City Commission Chambers.<\/p>\n<p>When questioned by TR, Sarah Connor, the Director of Marketing &amp; Communications for TMH, provided comments which were at odds with the statement provided by the \u201cinsider\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On the negotiations, Connor said, \u201cThese are complex legal documents, and all of them are being worked on collaboratively from both sides. We are in the process of reviewing and working through them all \u2013 they aren\u2019t finalized yet, but we\u2019re making progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the \u201chospital insider\u201d and the fear of retaliation, Connor said \u201cI don\u2019t know who the \u2018hospital insider\u2019 is, but there are no concerns of retaliation from our partners at FSU for speaking to the media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2026%2F02%2F23%2Ftmh-responds-to-hospital-insider-comments%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=TMH+Responds+to+%26%238220%3BHospital+Insider%26%238221%3B+Comments https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2026\/02\/23\/tmh-responds-to-hospital-insider-comments\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; In an exclusive statement to TR, a TMH spokesperson distanced hospital leadership from comments attributed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-166474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}