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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

I'm from New Haven County, Connecticut. I was within a 5 minute ambulance ride to Yale and St. Raphael's Hospitals, and within 7 minutes to the hospital in Meriden. My own primary care physician was 10 minutes from home, and I could ride my bicycle to the dentist's office. There were three Urgent Care facilities all within 10 minutes by car of my house, and the surgical center where I had my knee operation was 10 minutes by car in the other direction. And yet I lived in the suburbs, off the main road, in an area that felt more like the Historic Section of the Villages except with mostly ranch and Cape Cod homes, with a few late 1800's farmhouses and a couple of Victorian colonials tossed in for historic interest.

I was in walking distance to the closest CVS. We moved from some of the best medical care in the country, to some of the most mediocre. It's not bad enough to be the worst, but it doesn't even hit the bottom edge of what we considered "acceptable" where I come from.

That’s exactly why my wife and I aren’t full timers in the Villages. And the already substandard health care is about to hit a very slippery downhill slope with the unfortunate events happening with The Villages Health. Buckle up for a bumpy ride.