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The city commission votes 3-2 to negotiate the sale of Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare property to Florida State University after a presentation from both parties.

The WFSU podcast "Speaking Of" delves into the proposal. Tallahassee leaders will hear more about it at next week's commission meeting.

Under the agreement, FSU and TMH will work with the city of Tallahassee on the transfer of the hospital assets to the university. The partnership needs to be approved by the city commission.

Speaking to a gathering of Tallahassee business leaders, Mark O'Bryant said one idea is for FSU to partner with TMH to create a teaching and research hospital on top of its role of healing center.

The discussion was sparked by the hospital’s request to the city to establish a new governance structure. That raised questions about a possible land sale, with FSU a possible suitor.

The center, a joint venture of the two institutions, will provide about 130,000-square-feet of medical and research-related space.

The hospital will no longer need to divert ambulance traffic and will resume scheduling non-emergency surgeries and procedures. TMH hasn’t been specific about the type of security issue that impacted the hospital, but experts say the evidence points to a ransomware attack.

A week after the IT breach, the health system said more emergency patients are being accepted while “significant progress" has been made to bring affected computer systems back online.

An IT threat at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare is ongoing. In an update sent Tuesday afternoon, the system said some elective procedures have resumed.

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare has been postponing nonemergency procedures and diverting all but the most severe emergency patients after a cyber concern forced it to shut down its network late Thursday.