Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare

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Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare is a hospital located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States.

[edit] History

TMH is Tallahassee's oldest and largest hospital actually beginning service on April 23, 1948 in one small room at Dale Mabry Field. 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.

On October 19, 1964, M.T. Mustian was appointed administrator of Tallahassee Memorial. His leadership lasted for 25 years. In 1967 TMH assumed the operations of Florida A&M Hospital. In 1974 The Family Practice Residency program opened and heled alleviate the hospital's shortage of doctors. On June 30, 1976 TMH becomes 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 of 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 would become 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.

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 non emergent issues somewhere to go instead of waiting in the Emergency Center as long.