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Originally Posted by fcgiii
We are considering moving to The Villages this spring. Here in Northern Virginia we have excellent free heath care provided by the nearby Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, Medicare and Tricare for Life as a retired veteran..
We were diagnosed with COVID on 12/28 and reported positive on 12/29.
Yesterday symptoms increased and we went to the nearby Fort Belvoir Community Hospital ER. It was not crowded and we were seen almost immediately. We received excellent care for 5 hours, getting chest xrays, blood tests, CA scan and urinalysis. We were discharged with some new prescriptions.
QUESTION: how does this compare with the treatment we can expect at The Villages?
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Florida itself is NOT a mecca for the finest medical care such as found in places like Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Ohio where there are large established medical communities known for their medical research and teaching hospitals. The ones that always show up in Newsweeks best hospitals every year. I watch. I kind of am a "hospital snob" because our daughter was born with some involved and unusual congenital issues that require highly skilled support and repair and intervention.
With that said, after consulting with two physicians when we first came here, we are far better satisfied with The Villages Health care, BUT not all insurance plans will be available to you if you choose them.
Our doctor there, at the office near Lake Sumter Landing is a wonderfully kind and smart young man named Joseph Rizzi who was born in Brooklyn and is witty and caring and extremely up on things. I wish he would marry our granddaughter. He makes us all feel extremely well taken care of....even with my medical snobbery issues.