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Originally Posted by Hancle704

Since moving into TV almost 14 years ago, I have seen a significant improvement in medical services for the growing tri-county area. Sadly, the population growth has always been faster than the growth of medical services. We have gone from a volunteer fire dept. serving the Sumter portion to a Village wide Public Safety Dept/Fire Dept. that is nothing short of first rate by any standard. their response times are better than almost any other EMS service in this country and for this we are indeed fortunate, because many lives have been saved that in the past would have been lost.

TV Hospital was a long time in arriving and has struggled to keep up with area growth since it first opened. This will probably continue as home sales continue with new arrivals moving in daily. We can hope that at some point we will see another hospital open in the southern part of TV but that will also take time before it becomes a reality. When we see the increased ambulance traffic and medevac helicopters serving this area, I wonder why the planners did not see the growth coming and start work on building a trauma center that could serve the tri-county area and possibly be located in or, close to TV instead of transporting patients to Orlando or Gainesville. There is no doubt that the Moffitt Cancer Center in TV is a good addition, but why no planning for a trauma center?

Just as many of the roads in the area north of CR 466 were never built with the idea of handling the volumes of traffic that TV growth brought and parking areas around the existing town squares poves to be inadequate very often, so too has been the development of medical services. At least we can be thankful that things have improved over time unlike some other areas we might have moved to instead of TV.

bump for the highjack I just did.