{"id":19072,"date":"2013-02-22T00:25:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T05:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=19072"},"modified":"2013-02-22T12:17:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:17:05","slug":"battle-of-the-hospital-owners-has-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/02\/battle-of-the-hospital-owners-has-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Hospital <br>Owners Has Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18548\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/officials-speak-out-about-the-hospital\/nathanjim\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18548\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18548 \" title=\"Nathan,Jim\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NathanJim-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NathanJim-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NathanJim.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Nathan, President of Lee Memorial Health System<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A battle of the opposing two hospital owners has been against each other for the right to build a new location with one big potential loser the community of Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/battle-of-the-hospital-owners-has-been\/jjeanette\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19074\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19074\" title=\"jjeanette\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/jjeanette.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanie Jeannette, CEO of Lehigh Regional Medical Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of these options on the table means Lehigh Regional Medical Center shuts down and that would leave Lehigh Acres without a hospital.The law only allows so many hospital rooms in a certain area, so only one hospital can be built. The owners of Lehigh Regional, HMA, have been looking at the Alico corridor as\u00a0Lee Memorial, the other hospital system in the county, told the state today that they would like to build in Estero.According to LMHS officials, the LMHS wants to cut that time in half for those living in Bonita and Estero.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u00a0Lee Memorial filed a letter of intent with the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration to build a brand new, 80 bed hospital on\u00a033 acres of land next to the Coconut Point Mall.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Memorial says it would move unused rooms in other hospitals to the new Estero Location, but not close any facilities.<\/p>\n<p>For HMA\u00a0to move its allotted rooms, they would close Lehigh Regional, except for the emergency room.<\/p>\n<p>That would leave another part of the county without a hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A battle of the opposing two hospital owners has been against each other for the right to build a new location with one big potential loser the community of Lehigh&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}