{"id":226960,"date":"2026-04-10T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226960\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:14:08","slug":"tallahassee-memorial-healthcare-assets-are-now-officially-owned-by-florida-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226960\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare assets are now officially owned by Florida State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida State University and the City of Tallahassee have officially completed the legal transfer of Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare\u2019s city-owned hospital assets to the university.<\/p>\n<p>FSU President Richard McCullough made the announcement Friday in an email to all university students, faculty and staff.<\/p>\n<p>In it, he said it will allow the institution to build FSU Health, an academic health center, while Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare will continue to operate the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about impact. It means better access to care for our region, new opportunities for discovery, and a stronger pipeline for training the next generation of health professionals,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThis moment reflects years of collaboration and a shared commitment to serve our community. It also reflects what a strong public university should do: bring together education, research, and service to improve lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issue was a hotly debated one in the capitol region before the transfer was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wfsu.org\/wfsu-local-news\/2026-03-11\/tallahassee-city-commission-give-final-approval-to-transfer-of-tmh-assets-to-fsu\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">approved by the Tallahassee City Commission last month<\/a>. Supporters said it will bring more healthcare offerings to the area, while opponents express concern about giving up local control of the hospital to the university, which is controlled at the state level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida State University and the City of Tallahassee have officially completed the legal transfer of Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-226960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226960","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=226960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}