{"id":214122,"date":"2026-04-01T05:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214122\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:27:11","slug":"florida-hospital-drops-lawsuit-against-patient-who-refused-to-leave-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214122\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida hospital drops lawsuit against patient who refused to leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida hospital has dropped its\u00a0lawsuit\u00a0seeking to evict a<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/19\/us-news\/florida-hospital-sues-patient-who-wont-leave-room-5-months-after-discharge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> patient who refused to vacate a room for months<\/a> after she was discharged because, the hospital said, she finally left.<\/p>\n<p>Tallahassee Memorial Hospital filed the lawsuit this month requesting an injunction to force the woman to leave room 373 and authorizing the county sheriff\u2019s office to assist if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>She was officially discharged from the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/tag\/hospital\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hospital<\/a> in early October.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38956607\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sign-seen-outside-tallahassee-memorial-123907038.jpg\" alt=\"A sign for Tallahassee Memorial Hospital with a building and trees in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-38956607\"  \/>Tallahassee Memorial Hospital dropped its\u00a0lawsuit against the patient after she finally left. AP<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.48837209;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38956610\" width=\"878\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AdobeStock_24693373.jpeg\" alt=\"Hospital room with a bed, medical equipment, and a bright window.\" class=\"wp-image-38956610\"  \/>The woman was discharged in October but stayed for five months, MARCELO \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>A hearing had been scheduled for Monday, but was canceled after the hospital filed a notice of voluntary dismissal with prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>The case is no longer active because the patient \u201cis no longer at TMH,\u201d hospital spokesperson Sarah Cannon said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital\u2019s lawsuit said resources were being diverted from helping other patients because of the woman\u2019s continued occupation of the room.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit, the woman was admitted to the hospital for medical treatment and a formal discharge order was issued Oct. 6 because she no longer needed acute care services.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital repeatedly tried to coordinate her departure with family members including by offering transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida hospital has dropped its\u00a0lawsuit\u00a0seeking to evict a patient who refused to vacate a room for months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,5078,4137,67074,4278],"class_list":{"0":"post-214122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-hospital","12":"tag-lawsuits","13":"tag-patients","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214122","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=214122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}