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Your Healthcare Actions for 2024

Health: Your Healthcare Actions for 2024                  In the early part of the New Year, taking stock of your health and the actions you should consider to help minimize your reliance on physicians and other healthcare...
A Message from Lee Health

A Message from Lee Health

Lee Health Coconut Point – a progressive facility that strives to meet a thriving community’s current and future health and wellness needs – is on the lookout for passionate people to be a part of our winning team. Our 163,000-square-foot facility provides patients...

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Tour of Lee Health Coconut Point Emergency Facility

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...

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Coconut Point hospital faces new hurdles

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...

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Coconut Point Hospital Progress Report

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...

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Coconut Point Hospital Gets Preliminary Approval

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...

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Lee Health Coconut Point Campus Focus Promoting Healthy Aging

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...

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