{"id":202163,"date":"2026-03-23T09:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202163\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:20:15","slug":"florida-university-leaders-to-review-hospitals-transfer-to-fsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202163\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida university leaders to review hospital&#8217;s transfer to FSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State University System\u2019s Board of Governors will be asked next week to approve the transfer of city-owned hospital assets from Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare to Florida State University.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusf.org\/health-news-florida\/2026-03-11\/tallahassee-city-commission-gives-final-approval-to-transfer-hospital-assets-to-fsu\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tallahassee City Commission gives final approval to transfer hospital assets to FSU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s agenda for the board\u2019s meeting at the University of West Florida in Pensacola calls for authorizing the long-term contract. <\/p>\n<p>This contract includes an investment by FSU of $1.7 billion locally over the next 30 years as part of an asset transfer agreement with Tallahassee.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusf.org\/health-news-florida\/2026-03-18\/tallahassee-memorial-sues-to-evict-a-patient-who-wont-leave-5-months-after-discharge\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tallahassee Memorial sues to evict a patient who won&#8217;t leave 5 months after discharge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On March 11, the Tallahassee City Commission voted 3-2 to approve the transfer, which proponents frame as moving the region\u2019s primary hospital into a full academic health center that will expand health care access across North Florida.<\/p>\n<p>FSU will assume ownership under the agreement, and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare will operate the hospital under an amended and restated 40-year lease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The State University System\u2019s Board of Governors will be asked next week to approve the transfer of city-owned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-202163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202163","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=202163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}