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Originally Posted by Jazuela
It appears to me that your callous dismissal of people who are aging and going into the period of their lives where they are MOST LIKELY to need a hospital, is callous, and dismissive.
People look for relative safety when they pack up and move to a whole other way of life. We're not looking for health spas where our feet get rubbed by half-naked virginal boys carrying pitchers of warmed scented oils. We're looking for competent, efficient life-saving and disease-preventing health care.
It helps to know what we're moving into, before we actually move there. We COULD pick anywhere in the country to choose from, so when we do pick the Villages, we want to know that we made the right choice.
Judging from the board of health, the hospital organizations that actually know about this stuff, the state of Florida's health department, and the Villages residents, this hospital is remarkably horrible.
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Callous Dismissal --- not so, just totally fed up with people who have never lived here or had to use the hospital assuming it is not up to standard. My husband has had two cancer surgeries here, one was an extremely rare cancer which was picked up right here in this "horrible" hospital and he is alive and well. Plus he had a serious head injury which was dealt with immediately through the ER with excellent results. I have had two major surgeries here (heart and internal) with excellent results. There are literally hundreds of us walking around who have survived this hospital. We are both from Boston and have also had surgeries in Beth Israel and the Baptist so we do have something to compare.
Do you really think 20+thousand people would chose to live here if the medical facilities were so bad? We are surrounded with excellent hospitals, i.e. Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, Gainesville ......... take your pick.
I am going to be extremely rude and suggest if this subject bothers you this much, this is really not where you want to live.
