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Originally Posted by George Bieniaszek
Scary!! That is the proverbial "Achilles Heel" in The Villages. With over 100,000 residents here and with the average age where visits to doctors and hospitals are of a more frequent nature, this is a discussion that we have on a regular basis.
Not criticizing our dedicated health care professionals who have boundless energy and compassion working in a high stress environment, just feel that there is a dire need for another hospital or an expansion of our current hospital to correspond with the increasing population of The Villages.
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Our Village VA rep told us that plans to build a satillite hospital near Brownwood had been set aside to concentrate on enlarging the hospital near Spanish Springs. He said a larger hospital would attract more MDs.
Also, did you read in The Daily Sun a couple of days ago that Lake County EMS was changing their procedure to stay with folks they delivered to the ER so that they could remain available to other emergency calls.
Did I read and absorb that correctly?
I think our EMS in Sumter need to be equally released to be on call for emergencies. Shesamax recently reported a small brush fire near the fire station in Sanibel and the firemen couldn't respond because they had to remain WITH a patient that they had transported to the hospital.
I guess any changes like this would effect the price of medical care.. it seems simplistic, but probably isn't.