Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) is a private, not-for-profit community healthcare system founded in 1948. Located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States and serving a 16-county region in North Florida and South Georgia, TMH comprises a 772-bed acute care hospital, a psychiatric hospital, multiple specialty care centers, three residency programs, 22 affiliated physician practices, and partnerships with Doctors’ Memorial Hospital, UF Health, and Weems Memorial Hospital.
Tallahassee's first hospital was Johnston's Hospital, later the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, and the Forsyth Hospital, located at 805 N. Gadsden Street.[1][2][3][4] It closed as a hospital when Tallahassee Memorial opened, but remained in operation as a nursing home.
In a small room at the former Air Force base known as Dale Mabry Field, five men and one woman officially formed Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. The hospital was a wooden barracks used by the military during World War II. On November 4, 1949 the hospital known as Tallahassee Memorial Hospital opened its doors at its present location at Magnolia Drive and Miccosukee Road at a total cost of $1.5 million, plus $6,000 for the land. Tallahassee Memorial gained national recognition in 1954 for its effective handling of a polio-like virus that hit Florida's Big Bend and on September 10, 1958 TMH expanded with the addition of a new wing housing an emergency department, a medical floor, obstetrics service, and surgical services.
From its founding until the late 1960s, Tallahassee Memorial did not admit black patients, who were treated at Florida A&M Hospital.[5] (This was true of most Southern hospitals during the segregation/Jim Crow period.) Following the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Medicare's refusal to support segregated hospitals,[6] Tallahassee Memorial started admitting black patients, and the Florida A&M Hospital closed in 1971.
On October 19, 1964, M.T. Mustian was appointed administrator of Tallahassee Memorial. His leadership lasted for 25 years. In 1974 the Family Practice Residency program opened and helped alleviate the hospital's shortage of doctors. On June 30, 1976 TMH became Tallahassee Memorial Regional Medical Center, Inc. In 1977 Tallahassee Memorial helped establish Voluntary Hospitals of America to unify non-profit hospitals nationwide. In 1978 The TMH Auxiliary provided 40,932 hours and purchased a heart-lung machine for $24,460 and a portable image intensifier for $43,500.
During January 1988 Duncan Moore, administrator of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia, accepted the position as president and CEO of Tallahassee Memorial, which lasted until his retirement in 2003. In 2003 Mark G. O'Bryant accepted the position of CEO and President, ushering in a new era. In 1997 TMH had an on-site kindergarten and becomes one of Florida's newest partnership schools. TMRMC became Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare in 1998.
In 2003 TMH started an improvement and expansion plan adding the Behavioral Health Center, Bixler Emergency Center, Cancer Center, Heart and Vascular Center, Medicine Services, NeuroScience and Orthopedic, Surgery Center, and Women's and Children's Services followed by a Women's Pavilion. The Women's Pavilion features the region's only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
On January 15, 2008 TMH opened the Urgent Care Center to better improve patient flow through the Emergency Center. This new center gives patients with nonemergency issues somewhere to go instead of waiting in the Emergency Center as long.
Tallahassee Memorial Emergency Center - Northeast
The Emergency Center-Northeast was added in 2013 to cater to children and senior patients.
Quincy is a city in and the county seat of Gadsden County, Florida, United States. The population was 7,972 at the 2010 census, up from 6,982 at the 2000 census. Quincy is part of the Tallahassee, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is a public historically black land-grant university in Tallahassee, Florida. Founded in 1887, It is the third largest historically black university in the United States by enrollment and the only public historically black university in Florida. It is a member institution of the State University System of Florida, as well as one of the state's land grant universities, and is accredited to award baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degrees by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
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The history of Tallahassee, Florida, much like the history of Leon County, dates back to the settlement of the Americas. Beginning in the 16th century, the region was colonized by Europeans, becoming part of Spanish Florida. In 1819, the Adams–Onís Treaty ceded Spanish Florida, including modern-day Tallahassee, to the United States. Tallahassee became a city and the state capital of Florida in 1821; the American takeover led to the settlements' rapid expansion as growing numbers of cotton plantations began to spring up nearby, increasing Tallahassees' population significantly.
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Capital Regional Medical Center is a hospital in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. A fully accredited healthcare facility, it has more than 1,100 employees, approximately 500 physicians, and 266 beds. It includes a Bariatric Center, Comprehensive Breast Center, Cancer Center, Family Center, Accredited Chest Pain Center w/PCI, 24/7 Emergency Services in Leon & Gadsden Counties, Certified Primary Stroke Center, Surgical Services, Heart & Vascular Center, Wound Care Center, Seniors First and affiliated physician practices.
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Florida Agriculture & Mechanical Hospital (1911-1971) was the first institution in Florida providing medical care to African Americans, who, during the segregation period, were not permitted to receive care at whites-only hospitals. There was no other such institution within 150 miles (240 km) of Tallahassee. In 1940, "less than a dozen" counties in Florida had hospital facilities for Negroes.
Kathy L. Garner is a judge for Gadsden County, Florida, and is the county's first black female judge. She has been noted for her work with juvenile cases in the county, and has been credited with helping reduce the number of juvenile arrests and re-offenders.
The United States has many regions which have been described as medical deserts, regions with inadequate access to one or more kinds of medical services. An estimated 30 million Americans, many in rural regions of the country, live at least 60 minutes drive from a hospital with trauma care services. Limited access to emergency room services, as well as medical specialists, leads to increases in mortality rates and long-term health problems, such as heart disease and diabetes. Regions with higher rates of Medicaid and Medicare patients, as well patients who are uninsured are less likely to live within an hour's drive of a hospital emergency room.
Robert Dean Perkins Sr. was an American educator, businessman and civil rights activist based in Tallahassee, Florida. Perkins and his wife, Trudie, are credited with being the catalysts for bringing about equitable changes in employment practices in municipal government at a time when no African-Americans held high-ranking positions in city administration. The result of their efforts was a consent decree, entered and ordered against the city of Tallahassee in 1975 mandating the hiring of African-Americans at a ratio equal to their population in the city at that time.
Lenna Frances Cooper was an American dietitian and co-founder of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She has been called “a pioneer in vegetarian nutrition and dietetics.”
The 1968 Tallahassee riots were one of many riots that broke out after Martin Luther King was assassinated in Tallahassee, Florida lasting from April 5–7, 1968. It was originally a student protest but later became a riot as a result of the rage and anger of participants. The riot would happened at Florida A & M University but unrest would be seen to a lesser extent in the Frenchtown neighborhood.
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