Update on this thread that started in January 2017. Today May 26th the expansion of hospital is supposedly almost complete, there is still some minor construction between ER waiting room and Triage Nurse's station, seasonal visitors have left and today the ER was overloaded, with patients on gurneys and chairs inside the ER, a crowd in waiting room waiting to be seen, 30 patients in ER waiting to be admitted and sent up to rooms and nothing has changed. Why? If there are rooms why does hospital not have enough nursing staff. The bottleneck continues despite all of the expansion. Guess it is just a matter of more homes being sold every month and the hospital is failing to meet the growth curve. There has been a significant increase in urgent care facilities in and around the Villages to handle non life threatening issues, so one must ask what has gone wrong with "America's Healthiest Community"? Do we need another hospital or a new management team and quite possibly competitive wages to attract more nurses? IMO this situation will continue to worsen unless things change rapidly.
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