Capital Regional Medical Center is a hospital

Hospital

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 located in Tallahassee

Tallahassee, Florida

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, Florida

Florida

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, United States

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History

Originally Capital Medical Center, the hospital opened in September of 1979 and was owned by General Care Corporation. In September of 1980, Hospital Corporation of America

Hospital Corporation of America

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 purchased GCC and the hospital became part of a multi-billion dollar corporation

Corporation

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. In January of 1982 the hospital officially became HCA Tallahassee Community Hospital. In 1982 and 1983, TCH gained a CT Scan service and opened its family center.

In June 1985, the Florida's Health & Rehabilitative Services granted TCH a Certificate of Need to expand and renovate the facility and with that TCH in 1986 opened a cardiac catheterization

Cardiac catheterization

Cardiac catheterization is the insertion of a catheter into a chamber or vessel of the heart. This is done for both investigational and interventional purposes...

 lab and broke ground for an $11 million expansion and renovation project. In 1988 HRS issued a final approval for TCH's renovated and expanded physical plant. In April 1989 HRS issued a final approval for TCH's open-heart surgical

Open Heart Surgery

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 program.

Capital Regional Medical Center only has 198 private rooms.

From March 1990 through 1999, TCH began expanding services gaining an Intensive Care Unit

Intensive Care Unit

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, hyperbaric oxygen chamber, mammography

Mammography

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 suite, Wound Treatment Center, and began off pump coronary artery bypass surgical treatments.

The latest construction in 2002 was designed by world-renowned architect

Architect

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 Michael Graves

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Services

Services and access to services within the hospital.

• Emergency room
• Cardiac care
• Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
• Wound care Center
• Progressive Care Unit
• Hyperbaric Medicine
  • CRMC Hyperbaric Medicine serves as the only emergency hyperbaric operation between Jacksonville, Florida
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     and Pensacola, Florida
    Pensacola, Florida
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    . CRMC also contractually handles military personnel from Moody Air Force Base
    Moody Air Force Base
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     in Valdosta, Georgia
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    , Mayport Naval Station
    Naval Station Mayport
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     east of Jacksonville, and US Coastguard Sector Jacksonvillehttp://www.uscg.mil/d7/sectJacksonville/. The helipad
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     at CRMC is capable of simultaneous landing of the Eurocopter EC 135
    Eurocopter EC 135
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     based at CRMC as well as the SH-60 Seahawk
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     or UH-60 Black Hawk.
• Mammography Services
• Outpatient Services
• Joint Arthroplasty
• Surgery Center
• Urology
• Maternity & Women's Services
• Senior Center
• Allergies
• General Surgery
• Orthopedics
• Gynecology
• Internal Medicine
• Dentistry
• Neurology
• Neuro-Surgery(part-time)
• Podiatry
• Dermatology
• Rheumatology
• Ear/Nose/Throat
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology

Sources

• Capital Regional Medical Center Chronology
• Health Corporation of America history