Orlando Health won approval from the City Commission on Tuesday to build a health-care campus with hospital on a 79.6-acre tract at the southeastern corner of Lakeland Highlands Road and the Polk Parkway.
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Orlando Health Lakeland Campus Set for City Commission Vote
Orlando Health’s plan to build a hospital campus in south Lakeland is taking shape as the City Commission prepares to annex the site, designate the zoning and sign a development agreement that defines what the hospital group must do to soften the impact of growth.
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Oakbridge-Area Rehab Hospital Approved by Planning Board
Plans are moving ahead to build a rehabilitation hospital off Harden Boulevard, across from the Lakeside Village main entrance. For years, a two-story office building had been planned for the vacant 8.93-acre site, but the Lakeland Planning Zoning Board this week approved changes allowing the rehab hospital.
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City Maintains Funding for Social Service Agencies
It took a lot of haggling, but city commissioners decided Monday that a dozen nonprofit social services agencies will get their usual allotment of city funds rather than suffer 25 percent cuts.
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Encompass Health Plans Lakeland Rehabilitation Hospital
Alabama-based Encompass Health has announced plans to build a 50-bed rehabilitation hospital in Lakeland, but the company is not yet ready to disclose the location.
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New Developer Revives Long-Delayed Business Park
A massive business park in southwest Lakeland that’s been on hold for 12 years is making its way through the approval process and construction could start within a year.
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City Assists Sun ‘n Fun by Waiving Lease Payments
The city of Lakeland will waive rent payments for one year for the nonprofit Sun ‘n Fun organization because the COVID-19 pandemic forced it to cancel its annual fly-in, which had been scheduled in April.
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Orlando Health: Pandemic Could Delay South Lakeland Plans
The financial impacts of COVID-19 may slow the development time frame for Orlando Health’s planned health and wellness campus in south Lakeland, a company representative told Lakeland city commissioners today.
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Hospital Launches Service to Help Organizations Create COVID-Safe Conditions
As Florida reopens while COVID-19 is still active, Lakeland Regional Health has launched an online resource center and is staffing a hot line to advise businesses and other organizations.
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Health Experts Discuss Coronavirus Effects on Black Residents
COVID-19 is killing black residents of Polk County at a much higher rate than white residents, although the rate of infections appear to be similar, according to data from the Florida Department of Health. A panel of three medical experts addressed that and other health disparities Tuesday afternoon during a Zoom teleconference meeting of the […]