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Southwest Florida Regional Medical Center was a 400-bed general hospital in Fort Myers, Florida. [1] Then Ft Myers Community Hospital was originally developed by a subsidiary of Basic American Industries (BAI) called Basic American Medical in 1974. BAI was based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The first Executive Director of the hospital was John Gass.
Gulf Coast Medical Center was ranked as one of Healthgrades America's 100 Best Hospitals for pulmonary care for two years in a row, 2012–2013. [10] In 2016, Gulf Coast Medical Center earned the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Gold Plus Stroke Center designation. [11]
The population of Fort Myers City had been 575 citizens in 1890. By 1930, it had climbed to 9,082. [44] In 1947, Mina Edison deeded Seminole Lodge to the city of Fort Myers, in memory of her late husband and for the enjoyment of the public. By 1988, the adjacent Henry Ford winter estate was purchased by the city and opened for public tours in 1990.
On January 9, 2018, construction workers broke ground on a new 5,100-square-foot wound healing center at the hospital, it would be double the size of the old facility. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The wound healing center was completed at the end of 2018 and included six treatment rooms, three hyperbaric chambers , waiting area and a lobby .
A new Piedmont Newnan Hospital opened on May 8, 2012. "The new hospital is situated on 105 acres along Poplar Road near I-85. At 362,376 square feet, the 217-bed hospital will have 14 post-partum beds, 18 critical care beds, and 104 general medical/surgical patient beds.
State Road 865 (SR 865) and County Road 865 (CR 865) are a series of roads serving Lee County, Florida.Originally a continuous state road extending from Bonita Springs to Tice by way of Fort Myers Beach and Fort Myers, SR 865 now consists of two segments connected by a part of CR 865, which also extends to the north and south of the state segments.
Research into hormones and wound healing has shown estrogen to speed wound healing in elderly humans and in animals that have had their ovaries removed, possibly by preventing excess neutrophils from entering the wound and releasing elastase. [26] Thus the use of estrogen is a future possibility for treating chronic wounds.
Florida State Road 82 forms the southern border of the community; the highway leads west 15 miles (24 km) to the center of Fort Myers and southeast 20 miles (32 km) to Immokalee. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Lehigh Acres CDP has a total area of 94.2 square miles (243.9 km 2 ), of which 92.7 square miles (240.0 km 2 ) are ...