FSU College of Nursing receives 'transformative' $10M gift
Florida State University’s College of Nursing has secured what is being celebrated as its largest donation ever – a historic $10 million gift, which will help push education efforts in northwest Florida.
The university announced the donation Sept. 22 and it comes from The Fairholme Foundation, which is a Coral Gables-based organization recognized for philanthropic giving as it donates to projects in the arts, sciences, medicine, entrepreneurship and education fields.
As Northwest Florida enters a new era of health care with the help of the transformative gift, it comes after building plans have been announced for an acute care hospital under the FSU Health name as part of a medical campus in Panama City Beach through a partnership with Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. TMH has already invested between $30 million and $50 million in the hospital partnership on the regional campus.
The $10 million for the nursing school will go toward expanding FSU’s undergraduate nursing program to its Panama City campus to address the region’s ongoing nursing shortage. The effort comes as Florida is expected to face a shortage of 60,000 nurses by 2035, according to the Florida Hospital Association.
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