FSU Health brings together researchers, clinicians and local clinical partners under one umbrella to transform health and healthcare in Florida.
Florida State University has long been engaged in the health and healthcare fields. More than 30 years ago, Florida State Chemistry Professor Robert Holton synthesized the drug Taxol making it widely available to breast cancer patients, saving countless lives. The university's medical school was founded with a mission to improve care statewide and graduates more than 115 new physicians each year. Our current faculty are actively involved in broad areas of health-related research including mental and behavioral health, drug discovery and delivery, successful aging, human performance and more.
Florida State is also establishing an academic health system in Tallahassee and Panama City Beach under the FSU Health umbrella in partnership with Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. With support from the State of Florida, FSU will open a new 140,000-square-foot FSU Health Research Center on the Tallahassee Memorial campus in Fall 2026.
Simultaneously, Florida State is partnering with several other institutions to grow its health research portfolio and attract top healthcare and research talent from around the country to Tallahassee, resulting in a more robust healthcare system for the residents of Florida.
FSU has made joint hires with Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic, TMH, and the Andrews Institute. Florida State University has launched the Florida Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases and, more recently, the Institute for Connecting Nutrition and Health.
In April 2026, the City of Tallahassee transferred the hospital property and assets to Florida State University as part of an agreement that lays out a plan for FSU to invest in healthcare locally over the next 30 years. FSU now owns the physical hospital property and is driving the long-term research and academic expansion. TMH serves as the clinical anchor of FSU Health and continues to manage daily hospital operations, employ medical staff, and oversee direct patient care under a long-term lease with Florida State University.
This partnership will not interfere with the operation of the hospital or the relationship between providers and patients. Patients will be able to keep their current doctors/providers.
No, TMH employees will continue to be employed by TMH.
Charity care and low-income medical access are unchanged by the partnership with Florida State University. The transition explicitly protects vulnerable populations. The legal property deeds transferred from the city include strict, ironclad restrictions requiring FSU and TMH to maintain charity and indigent care commitments that are at least as generous as those previously set forth in the City-TMH lease agreement.
The expansion opens up massive pipelines for clinical rotations, residencies, and collaborative research across multiple colleges and centers of research—including the College of Medicine, College of Nursing, and the National MagLab. For example, the College of Nursing recently leveraged this ecosystem to launch micro-credentials focusing on utilizing responsible AI in clinical nursing.
No. FSU, FAMU, and TSC will continue their partnerships with TMH to ensure that the next generation of healthcare workers receive the proper educational and training opportunities.
The FSU Health Research Center is slated to open in fall 2026. The 140,000-square-foot building includes clinical research space, a family residency practice, laboratory facilities, and other resources designed to bridge the gap between academic research and patient care. It will include 30-40 health researchers and is expected to attract $40 million in grant funding annually.
With the goal of improving access and innovation in health and healthcare for the rapidly growing population in Northwest Florida, the university has a targeted opening date for 2028. The first phase of the new hospital will include 80 beds and will offer a broad range of healthcare services, including emergency medicine, general surgery, and diagnostic imaging.