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Campus Summary
Hospitals
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Capital Regional Medical Center
No. of beds: 198
- Twenty-four-hour Emergency Department with ExpressCare for
minor emergencies
- Heart Center, providing diagnostic and interventional
cardiology; electrophysiology; angiography; the latest open
heart surgery procedures in the region and cardiac
rehabilitation
- Cardiac Catheterization Labs
- Single Day Surgery Department
- Critical Care Departments
- The Family Center
- Wound Treatment Center
- Hyperbaric Medicine
- Quick Facts:
- H2U – Health, Happiness, You, a CRMC membership program
designed to meet the unique health needs of people 50+.
- New hospital facility as of 2003, including a
state-of-the art, computerized pharmaceutical distribution
system
- No Residency Programs
Tallahassee
Memorial Healthcare
No. of beds: 770
- Services:
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- Bixler Emergency Center
- Diabetes Center
- Neuroscience Center
- Orthopedic Center
- Surgery Center
- Women's Services
- Primary Stroke Center
- Acute Care Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program
- Accredited as a Chest Pain Center
- Tallahassee Memorial Wound Healing Center
- Bariatric & Weight Management Center
- Tallahassee Memorial Heart & Vascular Center
- Behavioral Health Center
- Quick Facts:
- Not-for-profit hospital – established for 50 years
- Teaching institution with clinic and satellite
facilities/family medicine centers in five surrounding
counties
- Eighth-largest hospital in Florida
- More than 500 doctors, representing 50 different
specialties, and 31 family practice residents
- Affiliation agreement with H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
and Research Institute in Tampa
- Sharon Ewing Walker Breast Health Center
- Residency Programs
:- Tallahassee Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program
 Archbold Medical Center (Thomasville, Georgia)
No. of beds: 264- Services:
- Level 2 Trauma Center
- Emergency Department that sees nearly 30,000 patients a year
- Urgent Care Center
- Full-service Cancer Center
- Full array of medical services, including internal medicine,
pediatrics, family medicine, general and vascular surgery, ENT,
urology, diagnostic and interventional radiology, and the
medical subspecialties of cardiology, nephrology, pulmonology,
gastroenterology, and rheumatology.
- Plastic Surgery
- Integrated Medicine program offers a full array of services,
inclusive of acupuncture by a physician certified in the field
- Quick Facts:
- Established in 1925 by Jack Archbold in memory of his
Father John Archbold, who was the silent partner of John D.
Rockefeller
- Not-for-profit private corporation
- Referral hospital of the five- hospital Archbold Medical
Center System
- Medical Center operates four nursing homes, home health
agencies, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services,
and hospice
- One of ten hospitals in Georgia participating in CPORT
study that allows the provision of interventional cardiac
services (angioplasty and stenting) without surgical backup
- Operates a Gamma Knife
- No Residency Programs
Faculty
Housing
- Cost of living information:
- Resources for finding housing:
Community
- Tallahassee (FL) Population - 156,512, as of 2004, per the U.S.
Census Bureau; the Tallahassee metropolitan area is estimated at
255,500
- Thomasville (GA) Population - 18,162, per the 2000 U.S. Census
- Municipalities in Leon County:
 Municipalities in Thomas County:
- Barwick
- Boston
- Coolidge
- Meigs
- Ochlocknee
- Pavo
- Thomasville
Major attractions in Tallahassee:
http://www.visittallahassee.com- Challenger Learning Center/IMAX
- Florida A&M University
- Florida State University
- FSU Flying High Circus
- Maclay Gardens
- State Capitol
- Tall Timbers Research Station and the Historic Beadll House
Major attractions in Thomasville:
- Birdsong Nature Center
- Lapham-Patterson House
- Pebble Hill Plantation
- State Farmer’s Market
- Sweet Grass Dairy
Culture in Tallahassee:
http://www.visittallahassee.com
- Claude Pepper Foundation and Museum
- Knott House Museum
- Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science
- Mission San Luis
- Museum of Florida History
- John Gilmore Riley Center/Museum of African American History
and Culture
- Tallahassee Goodwood Museum and Gardens
- Tallahassee Museum
Culture in
Thomasville:
- Jack Hadley Black History Museum
- Thomas County Museum of History
- Thomasville Cultural Center, Inc.
Sports:
- Tallahassee Sports Council Sponsored:
- AAU Junior Olympic Games
- Babe Ruth World Series
- Crappie USA Super Tournament and Crappie Masters
- FHSAA Football, Basketball, Tennis and Soccer Finals
- Florida State Track and Field Championships
- Red Hills Horse Trials
- Senior Softball World Series
- Sunshine State Games
- Tallahassee Tae Kwon Do Olympics
- USA Cycling Masters National Championships
- USTA Tennis Challenger and Open Championships
- Florida A&M Sports
- Florida State University Sports
Link to Chamber of Commerce Web sites:
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