Tallahassee: Health Care

Tallahassee is served by two local hospitals plus walk-in clinics and a mental health center. The Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, eighth largest hospital in Florida, is a 770-bed hospital that provides open-heart surgery and cardiac transplantation, renal dialysis, laser surgery, and lithotripsy. Other services are a community cancer treatment center, neurological intensive care services, a psychiatric center, and the area's only neonatal high-risk nursery. In 2004, Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center became affiliated with H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL.

Capital Regional Medical Center is a fully accredited, acute care hospital serving the residents of North Florida and

South Georgia. Established in 1979, Capital Regional Medical Center has 180 state-licensed beds and a 700-person hospital staff, including more than 300 physicians and approximately 250 professional nurses. Surgical specialties include a heart surgery program and orthopedic, urological, and neurosurgery centers. In 1998, the center completed a $1.1 million dollar renovation and expansion of their Emergency Department. More recent renovations and expansions (2004) include a new facility, with public areas and a facade designed by architect Michael Graves. The new hospital center includes all new equipment, private rooms, and a state-of-the-art Heart Center. Other services include a full range of outpatient services, specialized intensive care units, radiology, respiratory care, physical therapy, a Wound Care Center, Family Center, and a hyberbaric oxygen chamber.

Big Bend Hospice offers compassionate in-home care to people with terminal illnesses, with several satellite offices in Northern Florida. Hospice House, a homelike residence for patients who cannot remain at home through the end of their illness, offers short-term crisis care.