Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare
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| Industry | Health care |
| Founded | Tallahassee, Florida |
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Area served
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Tallahassee Metro Area & Portions of Southwest Georgia |
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Number of employees
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4,457 (2014) |
| Website | www |
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. 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. (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, Tallahassee Memorial started admitting black patients, and the Florida A&M Hospital closed in 1971.
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