Tallahassee Health Care Industry: Hospitals, Jobs and FSU Health

The Tallahassee metro area had 27,600 jobs in education and health services in August 2026 (preliminary), out of 200,500 nonfarm jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

BLS reports education and health services as one supersector for the Tallahassee, FL metro area, so the Tallahassee page gives no separate count for health care alone (BLS). Government is still the larger employer in Tallahassee, at 60,500 jobs in August 2026 (preliminary) (BLS).

The August 2026 education and health services count for Tallahassee was up 1.5 percent from a year earlier, while government jobs were down 0.7 percent over the same 12 months (BLS Economy at a Glance). HCA Florida Capital Hospital reports more than 1,400 employees and 500+ providers on its own (HCA Florida Capital Hospital).

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare runs a 772-bed acute care hospital on Miccosukee Road, and HCA Florida Capital Hospital is a 288-bed acute-care hospital on Capital Medical Blvd (TMH; HCA Florida Capital Hospital).

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare was founded in 1948 as a private, not-for-profit community system, and says it serves a 21-county region in North Florida and South Georgia (TMH). Beyond the acute care hospital, TMH lists a surgery and adult ICU center, a psychiatric hospital and multiple specialty care centers (TMH), and its trauma page says the hospital is credentialed as a Level II Trauma Center (TMH Trauma).

TMH lists its partners, among them the Apalachee Center, Calhoun Liberty Hospital, Capital Health Plan, Doctors' Memorial Hospital, the Florida State University College of Medicine, Weems Memorial Hospital and Big Bend Hospice (TMH). HCA Florida Capital Hospital lists a Behavioral Health Center, Cancer Center, Heart and Vascular Center, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Stroke Center among its Tallahassee services (HCA).

Since April 10, 2026, Florida State University has owned the formerly city-owned Tallahassee Memorial hospital assets, while Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare still runs the hospital as the clinical anchor of FSU Health (FSU News).

The plan was set out on September 16, 2025, when FSU reported that the TMH Board of Directors had voted unanimously to proceed with a memorandum of understanding (FSU News). Under it, FSU and TMH would work with the City of Tallahassee to transfer the 75-acre property, the 2-million-square-foot hospital building and related assets to FSU, which was then expected to lease them back to TMH under a new 40-year lease (FSU News).

The Tallahassee City Commission approved the transfer on March 11, 2026, and the city says the approved agreement includes an FSU investment of $1.7 billion (City of Tallahassee). The city release credits City Manager Reese Goad with negotiating the agreement and quotes Mayor John Dailey calling it the most important decision he has been part of in more than 20 years of public service (City of Tallahassee). The FSU Board of Trustees and the Florida Board of Governors also approved before the legal transfer closed (FSU News).

TMH remains responsible for patient care, employees and daily operations at the Tallahassee hospital, and deed restrictions approved by the city require continued charity care and keep the property a hospital (FSU News).

The FSU Health Research Center is an FSU building under construction on the Tallahassee Memorial campus that FSU said in April 2026 was expected to open later that year (FSU News, 2026).

FSU and TMH broke ground in September 2024 on a 140,000-square-foot academic health center building on the TMH campus, a project that took shape in 2022 when the Florida Legislature awarded FSU $125 million to build an academic health center; the building includes clinical research space, a family residency practice and laboratory facilities (FSU News). FSU says the center will house about 30 principal investigators and is expected to attract $40 million in grant funding annually (FSU News).

FSU projected that construction on the Tallahassee Memorial campus would create about 1,200 jobs and that the finished center would sustain over 350 permanent jobs (FSU News). Those are university projections made at the 2024 groundbreaking, not counted jobs (FSU News).

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare lists four physician residency programs and names the Florida State University College of Medicine among its partners (TMH).

The FSU College of Medicine internal medicine residency page describes Tallahassee Memorial as home to the Big Bend's only accredited community hospital program and the region's only state-designated Level II Trauma Center (FSU College of Medicine). The same page lists the Charlotte E. Maguire, M.D. and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Clinical Skills and Simulation Center for resident training (FSU College of Medicine).

The residency page also describes the M.T. Mustian Center at Tallahassee Memorial as a 346,270 square foot addition with 28 modernized operating rooms and 72 adult medical and surgical intensive care beds (FSU College of Medicine). FSU's 2024 groundbreaking story also notes that the university opened a physician assistant training program and welcomed its first class for a new doctoral program at the College of Nursing (FSU News).

The biggest gap is the service area: Tallahassee Memorial now says it serves a 21-county region, while the FSU College of Medicine residency page still describes a system serving 16 counties (TMH; FSU College of Medicine).

The two approval steps are often confused: the September 2025 action was the TMH board vote on the memorandum of understanding, and the Tallahassee City Commission approved the transfer on March 11, 2026 (FSU News; City of Tallahassee).

The BLS figures on this page for Tallahassee are monthly and the August 2026 value is marked preliminary, so it can be revised when the next month posts (BLS). FSU gave the research center opening as late 2026 at the 2024 groundbreaking and as later this year in its April 2026 transfer story, both still in 2026 (FSU News, 2024; FSU News, 2026).

Last verified: October 15, 2026, against the BLS Economy at a Glance page, the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare and HCA Florida Capital Hospital websites, the City of Tallahassee release, the FSU College of Medicine residency page and FSU News.