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What helps to enhance Longevity?
What helps to enhance Longevity?During the recent Engage Estero Community Meeting on January 25th at the Estero...
Lee Health Coconut Point 5 Year Anniversary
Lee Health Coconut Point 5 Year AnniversaryWritten by Allan Bowditch, Engage Estero’s Chief Communications...
Accessing Lee Health’s Ever Expanding South Lee County Services
Lee Health has created an “app” for all kinds of smartphones to make it easy for everyone to: Access all kinds of healthcare services including doctors of all specialties Learn how to live a healthier lifestyle no matter what your age Organize and track your health...
Tour of Lee Health Coconut Point Emergency Facility
ECCL members were granted a tour of the new "everything but a hospital" healthcare facility under construction in Estero. Lee Health's Alex Greenwood guided the group through the state-of-the-art 24/7 emergency facilities, as well as the first floor. It was exciting...
Coconut Point hospital faces new hurdles
The News-Press reported last Friday that new opposition to the Coconut Point hospital means delays and potential overturns of recent go-aheads from the Agency for Health Care Administration. NCH Healthcare System and Physicians Regional Healthcare System filed...
Coconut Point Hospital Progress Report
On Friday, June 8, 2018, Suzanne Bradach, Lee Health’s Coconut Point Project Director, presented the following update on the Agency for Health Care Administration’s (AHCA) Certificate of Need (CON) decision and the next steps in the approval process. To view her power...
Coconut Point Hospital Gets Preliminary Approval
This is a great day for the future of Estero and Bonita Springs. We are pleased to announce that the same State Agency that denied Lee Health’s 2014 application for a hospital on Coconut Point, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), has approved Lee...
Lee Health Coconut Point Campus Focus Promoting Healthy Aging
The proposed service area for LHCP is anticipated to experience an 18 percent growth rate of seniors in the next five years. By 2023, nearly 40 percent of the service area population will be age 65 and over. The importance of this demographic juggernaut cannot be...
Progress Report: LeeHealth Application for hospital in Estero
The ECCL thanks everyone who joined the approximately 400 Estero and Bonita Springs residents by sending a thoughtful letter of support for the Lee Health Coconut Point hospital Certificate of Need. Lee Health included your letter along with all the others in their...
New Medicare cards on the way
New Medicare Cards are being mailed. These cards are designed to prevent identity theft. They will not have your Social Security Number. They will come in an envelope that does not have something saying this is your new Medicare Card. Beware of scammers-Medicare or...
Match Day Success: Eight new first year, family-medicine residents will complete their training at Lee Health
The ECCL supports these and other efforts to attract the best talent in healthcare to south Lee County. On Match Day, Friday, March 16, the eight, new, first-year, family medicine residents who will be completing their training at Lee Health were revealed by The...