{"id":351477,"date":"2026-07-24T19:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351477\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:54:10","slug":"frank-and-carol-morsani-gift-5m-for-tampa-general-brooksville-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351477\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank and Carol Morsani gift $5M for Tampa General Brooksville location"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank and Carol Morsani have gifted $5 million to the Tampa General Hospital (TGH) Foundation to support emergency services at TGH Brooksville.<\/p>\n

The Morsanis\u2019 gift is the first major donation supporting the region since TGH Brooksville, TGH Spring Hill and TGH Crystal River joined TGH\u2019s nonprofit academic health system.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a bold vision for the future of TGH Brooksville, and a key step in realizing that vision is leveraging transformational philanthropy,\u201d said TGH President John Couris, who also serves as CEO of Florida Health Sciences Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy partnering with generous donors like Frank and Carol who share our commitment to excellence, we can drive meaningful change, expand access to care and bring innovative health solutions to the communities that need them most.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Morsanis are longtime Brooksville residents and prominent Tampa Bay area philanthropists. The couple said they hope their gift inspires others to similarly contribute to the Brooksville campus, and others in the area.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCarol and I chose to support TGH Brooksville because strong healthcare changes lives and strengthens our community,\u201d Frank Morsani said. \u201cWe hope this gift will advance innovation, support caregivers and bring hope and healing for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Morsanis, through their Frank and Carol Morsani Foundation, have collectively donated millions of dollars to local institutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of the entire leadership team at TGH Brooksville, we are deeply grateful for this extraordinary act of generosity,\u201d said Bobby Ginn, President of TGH Brooksville and TGH Spring Hill. \u201cPhilanthropic investments like the one realized through the generosity of the Morsanis enable us to advance our mission and invest in the people, programs and technology that transform lives every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stacy Brandt, the Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer for the Florida Health Sciences Center at TGH, said the investment will support transformative change.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a pivotal moment in the growth of our hospitals in Hernando County, this generosity will help create new opportunities for healing, innovation and better health outcomes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Added Frann Leppla, TGH Executive Vice President and TGH Foundation President: \u201cWhen TGH Brooksville joined our academic health system in 2023, it opened a new chapter for healthcare philanthropy in Citrus and Hernando counties. As visionary philanthropists, the Morsanis recognize the value of investing in this growing healthcare ecosystem to help ensure their local community will benefit from groundbreaking care closer to home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank and Carol Morsani have gifted $5 million to the Tampa General Hospital (TGH) Foundation to support emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[143750,143676,143751,143752,24425,143753,135,3871,137,136,143754],"class_list":["post-351477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-bobby-ginn","tag-carol-morsani","tag-frank-morsani","tag-frann-leppla","tag-john-couris","tag-stacy-brandt","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-general-hospital","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tgh-brooksville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351477","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=351477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}