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Originally Posted by Escape Artist
I wonder where all the medical services and doctors will come from? That’s the biggest negative living in TV for me: the lack of adequate or competent medical care. It’s glaringly obvious as I had to even change my insurance because the offices I went to could not find doctors or keep them. When I finally got a primary care physician he ended up leaving a few months later and that’s when I switched. The new insurance isn’t much better but at least my new doctor has been there for a year.
This is one aspect of TV lifestyle that the developers didn’t think of or chose to ignore. Even if we are all “active adults” we are still entering a stage in our lives when we will need more medical care, not less. The way they are building, TV might soon be looking at 200,000 residents, the majority of them over 55. Will there be enough hospitals, rehab and after-care facilities, nurses, doctors, therapists etc. to handle the demand? I highly doubt it. You’d be hard pressed to find that many doctors/surgeons/nurses enthusiastic about providing geriatric care or living in Central Florida to make it work. The system is already broken and will continue to get worse.
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The new southern villages are much closer to Orlando than up north but the north is much closer to Ocala. If you live in the Cleveland area suburbs and you want to visit the main Clinic campus or University Hospital, the drive can be up to an hour, no different than here. There are shortages of doctors everywhere in the country. As far as emergency care TV has opened several new 24 emergency centers and are already adding on to the one on 44 across from Brownwood, and there is The Villages hospital for the north if you dare to go there and Leesburg hospital for the southern villages. Lots of skilled nursing facilities are going up, it's a hot market right now and the investors know it.