Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Thanks, Russ, for all the info. It's good to receive details from the inside and not just speculation from us on the outside of the business. Last edited by Peachie; 01-26-2013 at 11:25 AM. |
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My other half was an emergency "life or death" patient at TV hospital and his treatment and care was above reproach.
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Now if you think that calling the big red bus is your ticket to a bed even faster, don't bank on it. Nothing irritates the ER staff much more than you taking the bus to the back door when you're going to be triaged as a 3 or lower. And Mr. Russ is quite correct in saying that the EMS teams have to stay with their deliveries on their gurneys until there is an acceptable bed for them to be handed off to. Of course if you have called the big red bus for a trivial matter, and you get coded somewhere between a 3 and 5, the charge nurse will very likely have you removed from your gurney, and given a seat in the waiting room, and release the EMS team.
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It is wise to get yourself a doctor here even if you are a part time resident. I hate to point out to any of you that we are ALL a little older and have more medical problems than we used to have. I think that finding a doctor here is very difficult because so many people judge physicians primarily on bedside manner and I don't care how curt and abrupt a doctor is, I just want him or her to be knowledgable. So someone liking a doctors personality really isn't all that helpful. AND so many of us are fairly new here ourselves and it is scary to start a new doctor patient relationship. You are placing your life in their hands. I don't mean to be negative and yet I do sound negative. Our daughter has had some very serious and unusual health situations over time and I became so grateful for the knowledgable physicians that guided us through them and became aware of others who were born with her cardiac difficulties not faring so well in small communities across the country. We continue to go back to Cincinnati for her cardiac check ups because her plumbing is so unusual. I guess over time I have become a doctor snob. I have not had a bad situation here with our doctor in the four years parttime and one year full time we have been here. But thank heavens we haven't really been sick either. Dentists are a different story. There are some very unethical dentists in Florida.
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It is interesting that our insider Russ says that the problem with the ER is not understaffing but overpopulation. But this has been a problem for the past several years and from my perspective The Villages Hospital has not solved the problem. What in the world happens when the next 20,000 or so residents move in? This is not the developer problem..it is the hospital. I don't know about you, but the thought of more possible patients the next few years makes me worry.
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When we first moved to the villages 8 months ag o, my daughter had an accident and needed stitches in her hand. The villages emergency room were wonderful.yes we were there a few hours but that was expected. She was seen immediately. Everyone was so wonderful. The past month my husband had to be taken to thr er twice by ambulance, again wonderful care. If anyone is very sick, call 911, they wwill send an ambulance and will take you right into the emergency room. Or go to urgent care and they will call an abulance.
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My mind is not at ease
I, too, have been a bit worried about the possibility of getting quality emergency care. Thankfully, neither myself or my husband have needed it thus far. I have no experience with TV hospital or urgent care centers, so my thoughts and opinions are solely based on what I have read and heard. I have told my husband that if I need to be hospitalized please get me to Ocala. What I wonder is if I go to TV hospital by ambulance, and want to be transported to Ocala hospital, will an ambulance transport me if my condition warrants?? I do worry about needing immediate, quality medical care. And I had no idea the medical care was so poor before I moved here. Not something I even thought about checking out. I figured since there were 90,000+ people the medical care had to be pretty good. Apparently not.....
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Happinow- I don't think they will taxi you from place. Try leesburg, but then again it is a few years older I know how you feel about older buildings
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In my experience ERs throughout the nation are nearly all experiencing the same kinds of pressures that we experience in TV. I served as a director of a 235 bed critical care hospital in a small town (100,000 ) in Md for 17 years. We were constantly rebuilding, renovating, expanding that operation during that entire time and still were unable to satisfy the more than 70,000 people who arrived asking for care . Even with the enormous proliferation of urgent care centers throughout the country, the pressure on ERs has continued to grow. My family has had three evperiences with the TV ER in the last two years and our care (quality and wait) was no different than we had experi ernced at Johns Hopkins Hosp in Baltimore or several other MD facilities.
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Poor medical care!
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The medical care available to you here is good to excellent. You have a hospital right here in TV. You have a hospital in Leesburg. You have Florida Watermans. You have two hospitals in Ocala. You then move into the very high end hospitals, namely - Orlando General, Tampa General, Moffatt, Gainesville and Mayo in Jacksonville. The farthest one is a three hour ride from here and how bad is that? This thread has vilified TV hospital, but there are hundreds of residents who have had excellent treatment from our local hospital.
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To clarify a point..both The Villages Hospital & Leesburg General are operated by the same company...Central Florida Health Alliance. So in essence if you like the care you get at TV you shouldn't have a problem with Leesburg, but if you don't like the care at TVH then you most likely won't like the care at Leesburg.
There also seems to be a rather big discrepancy between doctors affiliated with Munroe and those at TVH/Leesburg. If you read each hospital's website, they list the background & schooling of many of their physicians. TVH/Leesburg seems to have a rather large amount of 3rd world doctors educated at medical schools that are not well known, while the majority of doctors at Munroe Regional have been schooled at well-known American medical schools.
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one trip to er at the village received good care. Two heart attacks care for in leesburg still here so that was OK. The medical care in the area is very good. As for where the drs come from Americans go overseas the people overseas come here that is the way it is.
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