Is Leesburg Hospital as BAD as the reviews say it is?

[coffeebean]

My husband has a procedure scheduled at Leesburg Hospital in a week. He is just reading the reviews for the hospital. The reviews are absolutely dreadful. Is the hospital really as bad as the reviewers say it is? Anyone have experience with Leesburg Hospital?

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

I had two procedures there and they were both fine.

I think that people generally don't right reviews when things go as expected. It's when someone has a bad experience that they tend to go looking for how to post a review.

[villagetinker]

My wife had a procedure there recently, and it went very well, she was pleased with her care.

[TidalWalkers]

Had full knee replacement as out patient surgery. Everyone was very nice and professional. One month later and I doing very well, no pain, mobile, and on to full recovery. No complaints on Leesburg. Over night stays may be an issue but no place to recover is better than your own surroundings.

[Michael G.]

Personally it's the Village Hospital I hear so many negative story's and wonder how many are really true.

My neighbors all go to Ocala for any type of procedure including long term chemo treatments.
And they all live a short distance away from The Village Hospital. :shrug:

[MrFlorida]

Personally it's the Village Hospital I hear so many negative story's and wonder how many are really true.

My neighbors all go to Ocala for any type of procedure including lang term chemo treatments.
And they all live a short distance away from The Village Hospital. :shrug:

I had a shoulder replaced at the Village Hospital in April, the care was outstanding.

[Snowbirdtobe]

The only objective way to rate hospitals is to look at the CMS ( Medicare) ratings. Looking at ratings from survivors gives only part of the answer.
I'm from Boston and you can't find more than one 2 star hospital within 25 miles of Boston. All of the rest are three or more stars. Look at the hospitals in your home town to see if you can find a 2 star hospital that you would be comfortable with. The Villages Hospital has jumped their rating from one star to two stars. I'm sure that was a lot of work and is a move in the right direction. Many people say "You can't look at the ratings because the Villages population is old". The ratings are from CMS (Medicare) I think that means old people.

[Altavia]

Friends and family have had good care there.

You do need to oversite/manage care, mistakes happen everywhere.

[Lea N]

My husband has a procedure scheduled at Leesburg Hospital in a week. He is just reading the reviews for the hospital. The reviews are absolutely dreadful. Is the hospital really as bad as the reviewers say it is? Anyone have experience with Leesburg Hospital?

My husband has had a procedure done there and all was well. He'll be having a procedure done next week at Leesburg Hospital.

[billethkid]

More than one cardio procedure done at Leesburg plus wife's breast cancer surgery....could not ask for better care.

The Villages hospital....not on our list of where to be taken....for anything!

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[New Englander]

Personally it's the Village Hospital I hear so many negative story's and wonder how many are really true.

My neighbors all go to Ocala for any type of procedure including long term chemo treatments.
And they all live a short distance away from The Village Hospital. :shrug:

Recently, I had Inguinal Hernia Surgery at The Villages Hospital. I had excellent care. The hospital staff and my surgeon were great.

[eweissenbach]

More than one cardio procedure done at Leesburg plus wife's breast cancer surgery....could not ask for better care.

The Villages hospital....not on our list of where to be taken....for anything!

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I agree. My wife went to the ER at Leesburg four years ago and received great response and was admitted for five days and received great care. I went to the ER several years ago at The Villages Hospital and was treated like I was a nuisance and waited eight hours to be seen.

[Sandy and Ed]

I had two procedures there and they were both fine.

I think that people generally don't right reviews when things go as expected. It's when someone has a bad experience that they tend to go looking for how to post a review.
Agree. Angry dissatisfied folks are more vocal.

[Rwirish]

Reading these “reviews” is silly. These comments can be made about any hospital.

[BoatRatKat]

Spent nearly two weeks there last year. Eight hours in the waiting room and then another 24 hours in the ER before getting a room upstairs. The nurses we're fantastic, so caring and attentive...can't say enough good about them. All the technicians who did testing very good. I had several doctors, one was incredibly wonderful. He went above and beyond. Two others had terrible bedside manner and I lost all confidence in what they were telling me. That said, I was very, very sick and am fully recovered now so I can't complain...I can only be thankful.

[MandoMan]

My husband has a procedure scheduled at Leesburg Hospital in a week. He is just reading the reviews for the hospital. The reviews are absolutely dreadful. Is the hospital really as bad as the reviewers say it is? Anyone have experience with Leesburg Hospital?

People are much more likely to write a review if their experience was bad than if it was good. Don’t trust those. That said, that hospital has the same rating as The Villages’ hospital: B, mostly due to surgeons who don’t perform certain surgeries often enough to be good at it and to infections acquired at the hospital.

The only A rated hospital in the area is AdventHealth Waterman, in Taveres. I was very pleased with it when I had a total hip replacement there 18 months ago.

[Life as I know it]

Went to Emergency Room a while back. Processing in went smoothly. Waited four hours for a bed which was in the hallway next to the nurses station. Understandable seeing how busy they were. I was to stay overnight because they wanted to monitor my heart. Waited and waited, fell asleep, woke up in the morning, no heart monitor! Never saw a doctor. Finally got a hold of a nurse and I asked him for the blood work results taken the night before. He said he could not give them to me and I would have to wait for a doctor or read the results from my health portal.
Waited, left signed myself out.
This was the second bad experience with The Villages Hospital. I am not going back for a third.

[Suzay]

My husband had open heart surgery there ,and im.A frequent flyer there ,always had excellent care and he had excellent care after his open heart ,great care on floors
Just don't go to ER.there ,unless you like sitting in waiting area for ten hours ,that needs improvement.

[Galmarini]

My wife had open heart surgery double bypass. Excellent care.

[Donaz1]

A friend recently had triple bypass surgery there and he was totally satisfied with the results. He said that the physician was fantastic.

[Gunny2403]

Breast Cancer Surgery at UF Villages Hospital with outstanding results and care. 5 months ago.

[Marsha11]

My open heart a few years was excellant

[BlueStarAirlines]

I think people's experiences and opinions are somewhat subjective. What gives more weight is the opinions of organizations and Government that interact with all hospitals. If you are interested in what Medicare thinks of our local hospitals, this is a good link:

Medicare.gov (https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/?providerType=Hospital)

Personally, I go to Waterman.

[Ele201]

Went to Emergency Room a while back. Processing in went smoothly. Waited four hours for a bed which was in the hallway next to the nurses station. Understandable seeing how busy they were. I was to stay overnight because they wanted to monitor my heart. Waited and waited, fell asleep, woke up in the morning, no heart monitor! Never saw a doctor. Finally got a hold of a nurse and I asked him for the blood work results taken the night before. He said he could not give them to me and I would have to wait for a doctor or read the results from my health portal.
Waited, left signed myself out.
This was the second bad experience with The Villages Hospital. I am not going back for a third.
I totally agree with you about the Villages ER. I had an awful experience there in May, 2022. Had to wait for hours on end after they said I was released, just need paperwork signed. But they took their time in getting the papers signed. Waited in a room for 5 hours. I talked to the nurse’s station and they were no help. And then as I continued to wait, I saw the nurse’s desk changing shifts. So at that point it was 8 hours.

But that wasn’t the worst thing that happened during my ER visit. A staff member who took my vitals was abusive. Incident is still on my mind a year later. Contacted the hospital’s administrator, told him what happened and he just told me she was not a part of their regular medical staff, as if that made it ok. Since then I’ve been working with the UF Health Villages’ patient advocate department.

[msilagy]

There's good and bad reviews everywhere concerning hospitals. Most importantly is whether the Dr's/surgeons are top notch? If it's anything serious Shands (Univ of Fl) in Gainesville and Mayo in Jacksonville for the best care. Any local hospitals are subject to hit and miss. Even tho people have good outcomes you can never be sure internally it was that good - just what they see and hear drives their opinions. When I worked in medical the nurses responses and expressions were the tell all.

[jedalton]

I was there just after the University of Florida took over and everything was just fine

[NotGolfer]

Oh.my!! You ask on a public forum?? That said however---been reading very good reports of late of the hospital(s) here. Think they're improving!! With the short-staffs in the ER's I'd think that's where the issues have been in the past but they're under new ownership. People here are so quick to criticize. We've lived here for 14 yrs and have had several hospital stays between us. Two years ago my other half got transferred to Gainesville and we weren't impressed with the care there. So one just never knows. Would that stop us from being hospitalized if need by? I'd say NO!!

[Bradzoo]

Shoulder surgery in March, every person was top notch from checkin to checkout. Was very surprised but happy.

[midiwiz]

My husband has a procedure scheduled at Leesburg Hospital in a week. He is just reading the reviews for the hospital. The reviews are absolutely dreadful. Is the hospital really as bad as the reviewers say it is? Anyone have experience with Leesburg Hospital?

it depends on what the situation is. My experience was horrible, I wouldn't sent a dying worm to UF anything. It was so bad that we had to demand a transfer from Leeburg to Shands in Gainsville...of which improved but not all that much. Considering I'm married to a medical professional.... I have to realize as I said that it depends on the situation, but I am requesting Advent in Ocala from here on out as everything gets a nickname , UCF is you can't finish, UF is U F*cked. That's how bad it is

bonus comment - some stations in Leeburg don't even give report on shift change. so good luck.

[thelegges]

it depends on what the situation is. My experience was horrible, I wouldn't sent a dying worm to UF anything. It was so bad that we had to demand a transfer from Leeburg to Shands in Gainsville...of which improved but not all that much. Considering I'm married to a medical professional.... I have to realize as I said that it depends on the situation, but I am requesting Advent in Ocala from here on out as everything gets a nickname , UCF is you can't finish, UF is U F*cked. That's how bad it is

bonus comment - some stations in Leeburg don't even give report on shift change. so good luck.
Isn’t Shands in Gainesville a UF hospital? At least that’s what it says on the top of the buildings

[Chamo]

Don’t know about Leesburg BUT I had 2 bad experiences at the villages in which doctors were terrible. Nursing staff was excellent. Required tests were not performed and stated I can get them after I leave. The hospital went in for a procedure they only completed 40% of the procedure after being released following up with the same Doctor Who does not take my coverage was ridiculous. Everybody is not on Medicare, they need to take this into consideration when hiring these so-called professionals I now travel to Ocalla and go to AdventHealth, which so far has been excellent.

[shueburruss]

I spent 5 days in Leesburg Hospital this past February for a gastric bleed. I could not have asked for better care.
I'm not sure of the reason for negative reviews, but my experience was a positive one.

[Tobys Dad]

My husband has a procedure scheduled at Leesburg Hospital in a week. He is just reading the reviews for the hospital. The reviews are absolutely dreadful. Is the hospital really as bad as the reviewers say it is? Anyone have experience with Leesburg Hospital?

I had an issue and spent 2 days there. The staff was wonderful. I was kept informed through the entire process.
I give them an A+.

[Heytubes]

Since June 26 of last year I’ve been in the Villages hospital three times for extended stays. Excellent care. My last visit was March 15th and then I noticed increased staff and even an improvement in the food service. Nurses and doctors were top notch professionals. I feel most complaints are the long wait in the ER where people could go to an urgent care but don’t have the money so the ER is overran with non payers. Shands, The Villages hospital as well as Leesburg are all now ran by the UF and I feel improvements are being made quite frequently. I’d return to all three if my life depended upon it.

[Joe C.]

Don't believe all the bad reviews that you read. If they were all accurate, the Leesburg Hospital would be called the Leesburg Morgue. Same in the Villages ..... we don't have The Villages Morgue.
So take everything with a grain of salt.

[collie1228]

I recently had my gallbladder removed at The Villages Hospital and have no complaints. Everyone from the ER doc and staff, to the second floor for pre-op, the radiology dept for several tests, to the surgical and pos-surgical teams were all excellent. My nursing care was responsive and caring. I'm sure people have had problems there, but I've learned to ignore the negative reviews on everything from hotels to cruise ships. They are mostly wrong or intentionally misleading in my experience.

[Greatlawn]

I had a “30 min” procedure at Leesburg that took over two hours and I almost died. I spent five days in ICU and two weeks in the hospital. The care I received was not good.

[miadford@gmail.com]

My husband has a procedure scheduled at Leesburg Hospital in a week. He is just reading the reviews for the hospital. The reviews are absolutely dreadful. Is the hospital really as bad as the reviewers say it is? Anyone have experience with Leesburg Hospital?

They took me right in and ordered all tests and had them completed quickly. Everyone was extremely friendly and treated me very well.

[nn0wheremann]

My husband has a procedure scheduled at Leesburg Hospital in a week. He is just reading the reviews for the hospital. The reviews are absolutely dreadful. Is the hospital really as bad as the reviewers say it is? Anyone have experience with Leesburg Hospital?
Worse. Too ugly for words.

[wolfie]

Unfortunately, I had to use the Village Hospital three times and they were excellent. The problem we have here is the hospitals are too small and they don't pay well the three Encinitas that I had. I had excellent doctors and excellent care.

[TCRSO]

I was initially admitted to the Leesburg hospital with a serious staff infection. After 3 days I transferred to Advent Rollins. Incredible difference, both in the quality of the facility and medical care. The assembled medical team at Advent, included an Invasive neurologist, invasive cardiologist, cardiologist, and infectious disease specialist. After conducting many MRIs and Cat Scans, the team concluded that all test performed at Leesburg were useless due to the poor quality of the images. My wife and I now agree that if either of us need emergency care, and the ill person can get in the car, we are headed to Orlando and Advent.

[PugMom]

yes, it is as awful as it says. it comes from experience with them, please avoid @ all costs. if you must get sick, use Advent

[PugMom]

I think people's experiences and opinions are somewhat subjective. What gives more weight is the opinions of organizations and Government that interact with all hospitals. If you are interested in what Medicare thinks of our local hospitals, this is a good link:

Medicare.gov (https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/?providerType=Hospital)

Personally, I go to Waterman.

Waterman is where we go now if there's an emergency, they are excellent.

[rogerk]

The ratings generally reflect conditions 2-3 years ago. It takes the rating agencies that long to gather and analyze the data. I don’t believe that just because the ratings are published by Medicare they are age biased; they represent the local patient populations.

[golfing eagles]

Reading these “reviews” is silly. These comments can be made about any hospital.

Bottom line: Every hospital is as bad as “people” say they are———-until you need them

[Frank495]

I was a hospital administrator for 30 years and the Medicare ratings can be relied on. Anyone can have a good result or a bad experience, we must look at the big picture. The results of all the patients and then compare the to other hospitals, that is exactly what the Medicare ratings do.
Since UF took over what has changed? The signs on the front door. I went into the UF ER on 44 and spoke the their administrator and asked how many of the previous physician staff has had their privileges supended, and how many new UF doctors have been added. The answer to both was "none". How can this generate any positive change. I understand the same is true at the Villages Hospital. You must get rid of the dead wood to expect positive change. I also the same is true of their employees. They say they can't find staff to hire, well if you were looking for a job would you like to work at a 4th rate institution.
Dr. Frank Todd

[PugMom]

I was a hospital administrator for 30 years and the Medicare ratings can be relied on. Anyone can have a good result or a bad experience, we must look at the big picture. The results of all the patients and then compare the to other hospitals, that is exactly what the Medicare ratings do.
Since UF took over what has changed? The signs on the front door. I went into the UF ER on 44 and spoke the their administrator and asked how many of the previous physician staff has had their privileges supended, and how many new UF doctors have been added. The answer to both was "none". How can this generate any positive change. I understand the same is true at the Villages Hospital. You must get rid of the dead wood to expect positive change. I also the same is true of their employees. They say they can't find staff to hire, well if you were looking for a job would you like to work at a 4th rate institution.
Dr. Frank Todd

thank you kindly for your honest insight, it answers many questions

[Annie66]

I have a friend who is well connected to The Villages hospital. He commented a few weeks ago that they have reviewed the patient data for the past several years and the quality of care at both Leesburg and TVs hospitals has improved significantly. What we are seeing online appears to be older data. The new UF CEO for both hospitals is committed to dramatically improving patient care. The naysayers will say we've heard that before, and they are correct. Time will tell if the current information is signaling the anticipated turnaround.

[RUCdaze]

I was in The Village Hospital for a year the week of Memorial Day! I had some very nice nurses, but the competency of their medical staff is infamous. Leesburg at least has an excellent reputation for Cardiology. The Village Hospital won't be better until they get better doctors. Don't hold your breath.

[RICH1]

That’s not a Question for the Living, ask the former Dead patients who suffered!

[RICH1]

yes, it is as awful as it says. it comes from experience with them, please avoid @ all costs. if you must get sick, use Advent
Exactly , A short drive to AdventHealth will save your life! Remember some Doctors graduate at the bottom of their class , they don’t get offers from Top Notch Hospitals!

[thelegges]

Only you can decide how your treatment was, if you have background, one knows that if the ED is full of people who are clogging up the department instead of going to urgent care. Then your truly emergent care will be slowed down, since every patient still has to be evaluated wasting precious time,