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Originally Posted by biker1
It is amazing how people get all wrapped up in rankings without really understanding what actually goes into those rankings. It is the same thing that goes on with rankings of universities. The suggestion that you must go outside of FL for excellent health care is not based on anything concrete. You can certainly find less than stellar health care no matter where you live. If I needed the services of a children's hospital and I lived in Boston, would I travel to Baltimore based on the fact that it is now ranked just ahead of Boston? I don't think so. However, I would if there was a specific Dr. that I wanted to see. You can find excellent Drs. in Florida. A lot of them practice at Mayo, Shands and Moffitt.
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I think I may have not been clear.
I have been involved with a group of parents for more than thirty years whose children were born with very unusual and very involved cardiovascular problems that last all of their lives. Adequate care or even good care is not good enough for them. We continue to take our daughter to Cincinnati Childrens Adult Cardiology Clinic because of her unusual plumbing and need for expert anesthesia care.* Some Children with Williams Syndrome have died from heart surgery performed at smaller, less experienced hospitals.
I was hospitalized a year ago here, quite unexpectedly and spent a week in Critical Care and I received excellent care at TVRH . I felt the nurses there were superior in every way and caught things the doctors did not.
I think TVRH is a decent hospital for most things.
I think that The Villages has adequate health care and I think that the hospitals that you mentioned, Moffitt, Shands, Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville are good. We are very lucky that our company insurance pays for our daughters very specific needs at her age of 53.
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