{"id":24003,"date":"2013-06-07T17:38:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T21:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=24003"},"modified":"2013-06-07T17:38:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T21:38:58","slug":"ahca-denies-lee-memorial-plans-for-estero-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/06\/ahca-denies-lee-memorial-plans-for-estero-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"AHCA Denies Lee Memorial<br> Plans For Estero Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16064\" title=\"lee mem\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/lee-mem-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/lee-mem-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/lee-mem.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Lee Memorial has been waiting for this day for over three months.<\/p>\n<p>And the state said no.<\/p>\n<p>And the reason was, according to a 75-page denial letter, the state says rival NCH is only at 50 percent capacity and there is not a need for more beds in the county.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>CEO Jim Nathan tells the <em>Lehigh Acres Gazette<\/em> he&#8217;s was shocked by the answer and thought he was going to get the green light to build a new $80 million, 80-bed hospital just south of Coconut Point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have beds at Lee Memorial Hospital that need to be replaced. It just seems to make sense that we replace them there. We weren&#8217;t adding additional bed capacity to Lee County, we were just allocating the beds more appropriately,&#8221; Nathan said.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Memorial has 21 days to make a decision on what they want to do going forward. Nathan says the process to get an approval could take up to a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Memorial has been waiting for this day for over three months. And the state said no. And the reason was, according to a 75-page denial letter, the state says&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003"}],"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=24003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}