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Better to recognize reality and act accordingly than to ignore reality and act like a fool…

Right! The Villages Hospital is sub-par. But, the ambulance service has life saving equipment manned by professional paramedics. With most emergencies, time is of the essence. Once you are stabilized, you can transfer to a hospital of your choosing. It is not imperative to stay at the Villages hospital.

If you find you despise the Villages hospital, move to another part of the Villages that is closer to a hospital that meets your standards. Everyone must fight their own battles and live with the choices they make.

You don’t think response time is important?? Yeah, OK. Just hope you don’t have a cardiac arrest. Or better yet a stroke where the window of opportunity to use thrombolytic therapy is about an hour

Since things have branched off a little... It is ironic that a place with a good number of very active healthy seniors has some of the worse healthcare options in the country. Would a better system allow us to remain active longer or when a major health incident happens is that the end ?

Well Doc, excuse me for having absolutely zero confidence in the Village’s Hospital. When you show up at the ER on your death bed in need of critical care, you wait in total agony for over 12 hours to ultimately get misdiagnosed, prescribed medication that does nothing to help your condition, get booted out the door after midnight to drive yourself home and die, and then get billed for the horrific experience, that will happen.

When I got to a real hospital in Gainesville the triage person took one look at me, put me in a room where a team of Doctors immediately evaluated me, and admitted me to critical care within minutes. If my wife didn’t drive about 1,360 non-stop miles south to pick me up and drag me to Gainesville, I would be dead now thanks to the Village’s Hospital. So yes, I’m not on board with first response time mattering when the patient is going to get dumped at the Villages Hospital.

We get it. You had a bad experience at The Villages Hospital. I’m sorry you had to go through what you did. But not everyone had the same experience you did. There are people that praise the treatment they received. Hijacking every thread you can to knock the hospital isn’t going to make it any better. Living in a community where the population is growing faster than the available medical services are is always a gamble. I hope you’re able to move on from this.

It might not be ironic at all; the large percentage of seniors in the population might be part of the reason for the healthcare options.

A lot of seniors means a lot of payments by medicare. If medicare truly does pay less than private insurance then that means less income for doctors who stay in this area. There are likely other factors in play (such as having three large cities close by) but it seems like this might play a part.

You’re comparing a level 1 trauma center to a glorified urgent care. lol.