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Originally Posted by justjim
Village Health will not accept our State Government Medicare Advantage plan, and our Primary Physician of 20 plus years has retired. Ironically, the doctor recommended by our retiring physician left for “greener pastures” before we could even get into to see him. Makes you wonder what is happening to our medical system that has such a shortage of doctors, nurses and other medical technicians. We would prefer an internal medicine doctor where we could develop a patient/doctor relationship but we have already found it challenging to find any doctor taking on new patients in the surrounding area. Perhaps the Walk-in emergency clinics with doctors and physician Assistants are the only solution now available for medical care in the area. Unless you are having a heart attack, we have marked off the hospital’s E.R. as a place of very last resort.
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Poor medical care and/or lack of good doctors is the biggest downside of The Villages for me. It’s something I noticed almost immediately after moving here. I had to wait over two months to see a primary care physician then a couple of weeks before my appointment I was informed she had left. Back to square one!
I’ve seen a lot of praise for The Villages, and the Morse family and their genius in planning such a place and the continued expansion but one thing they lacked foresight on was that a predominantly senior population needs a lot of medical care, hospitals, clinics, doctors, nurses, medical technicians, etc. A doctor told me that central Florida just isn’t a place that attracts the best and brightest and those doctors with families don’t relish living amidst a senior community of 125,000 and growing. No, they did not think this aspect through, nor the fact that most seniors are living longer now, many well into their 90’s, and there would not be the “turnover” they anticipated when they made their best laid plans.