[Villages Kahuna]

[QUOTE=Taltarzac725;2198536 What are the steps we Villagers should take as we move to the 65 year mark with respect to Medicare?e almost a year though to plan.[/QUOTE]

Research the avaiLability of doctors and hospitals .

The plan announced by UFHealth more than a year ago to make The Villages Regional Hospital a teaching hospital has been cancelled. UFHealth has not been successful in attracting new doctors and nurses to staff TVRH and train doctors doing their residencies, let alone properly staff TVRH for normal operations.

Possibly for the same reason, the plan to build a large new hospital and medical complex in the southern end of The Villages has also been tabled. UFHealth has withdrawn from the partnership with The Villages to build the hospital. The Developer is scrambling to find a new partner to joint-venture in the construction of the large, new hospital.

If you’re considering moving and living here, who will your doctor be? What hospital will you go to, if necessary? What insurance will be accepted? Now that The Villages has a population at least double that when the last expansion of TVRH or Leesburg Hospital, what hospital would you use if necessary?

Ask your doctors what they know about these issues. You certainly won’t be reading about it in The Daily Sun.

Some of the new doctors who moved and built homes nearby are rethinking their decisions. The move of all the schools to the south end of TV near the new high school now requires a 45-minute drive each way to get their kids to-and-from school.