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Originally Posted by KYDIANA12
I have heard several stories just like this of people waiting 7 hours and longer and finally leaving without being seen by a Doctor. This is my main concern about the healthcare in The Villages. We are only part timers right now and we still have our primary doctors back home. My fear is having an emergency while there and needing immediate attention at a hospital. I would go to the Leesburg hospital instead of TV hospital. I don't understand why TV has not built another hospital to handle the growing population.
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The developer builds but he can't cause Hospital Associations to rent and run them.
It isn't like you build a building and hire surgeons and nurses and provide all of the equipment and stuff like you would a restaurant.
Only the building is owned by the developer. The Health Alliance of Central Florida that runs the Leesburg Hospital also runs The Villages Hospital.
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I am VERY concerned about health care here but the very fact that so many of us are on Medicare makes it "not interesting" for a lot of good doctors to move here.
The medical community here is NOT what many of us left behind and there is little that anyone can do to fix it.
Even the great and mighty OZ cannot "create" or woo a hospital. That was proven when they built the Moffitt Center here. There is a building here, but many still go for services to The Moffitt Center at Tampa where the large staff is based.
Remember that Gary Morse lives here too and he gets sick just like the rest of us, he is aging and of course can go anywhere but just like us, may need expert care STAT. There is every incentive on every level for the developer to exert his influence but some things cannot be done with mere money. Good doctors want the status of being associated with a stellar teaching hospital, generally speaking. That is not to say we don't have some good doctors here but we also have some that are not so great, in my very humble and uneducated opinion.