{"id":214546,"date":"2026-04-01T14:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214546\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:07:08","slug":"florida-hospital-patient-finally-leaves-room-after-5-months-amid-legal-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214546\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida hospital patient finally leaves room after 5 months amid legal battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A Florida hospital<\/a> has dropped its lawsuit to evict a patient who refused to leave for months \u2014 saying the woman finally moved out.<\/p>\n

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) had sought a court order to remove the woman from her hospital room, where she remained after being discharged in early October and authorizing the\u00a0Leon County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>\u00a0to assist in removing her if necessary.<\/p>\n

A hearing scheduled for Monday was canceled after the hospital filed a voluntary dismissal.<\/p>\n

Hospital spokesperson Sarah Cannon said Monday that the case is no longer active because the patient “is no longer at TMH,” according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

FLORIDA HOSPITAL SUES TO EVICT PATIENT WHO REFUSES TO LEAVE FOR MONTHS<\/a><\/p>\n

The hospital argued in its complaint that the woman\u2019s continued stay diverted staff and resources<\/a> from other patients and tied up a needed hospital bed.<\/p>\n

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“TMH has limited inpatient beds,” the complaint stated. “The defendant\u2019s continued occupancy prevents use of the bed for patients needing acute care.”<\/p>\n

ARIZONA FAMILY SUES HOSPITAL, SAYS STAFF \u2018UBERED\u2019 SICK SON TO SIDEWALK WHERE HE DIED<\/a><\/p>\n

According to the filing, she no longer required acute care after a formal discharge order was issued Oct. 6, and staff made repeated efforts to coordinate her departure, including offering transportation and contacting family members<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is unclear how often hospitals resort to legal action to remove patients who refuse to leave after discharge.<\/p>\n

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Fox News Digital has reached out to TMH for comment.<\/p>\n

Read more at FOXNews.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Florida<\/a>Health Care<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A Florida hospital has dropped its lawsuit to evict a patient who refused to leave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,28,30,29,6584,115,628],"class_list":["post-214546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-health-care","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214546","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=214546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}