Florida Hospital Plans an ER for Land Near Polytechnic
Florida Hospital has disclosed it plans to build a free-standing emergency room on 104 acres it recently purchased for $14.5 million just west of Florida Polytechnic University.
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Florida Hospital Parent Buys 103 Acres Near Poly
Florida Adventist Health paid $14.5 million for the land just west of Florida Poly. A Ledger article in July disclosed the company’s desire to build a clinic there that could later expand to a hospital.
After Losing 170 Pounds, Woman Advises Others
Lakeland resident Heather Robertson, 41, started a podcast called “Half-Size Me” and a company by the same name to offer weight-reduction advice after dropping nearly half her body weight.
Bill Would Expand LRH Residents From 3 to 200
Lakeland Regional Health and its trauma center is the largest in the nation without a teaching program, a hospital official says. That could change under legislation co-sponsored by U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson that would close what’s being called a Medicare glitch that is keeping the University of Central Florida from supplying residents to LRH.
Bill Filed by Sen. Nelson Would Help Lakeland Regional
Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center is one of at least 11 hospitals in the U.S. that would be given a path to establish a residency program under legislation co-sponsored by U.S. Bill Nelson, D-Florida.
