{"id":36745,"date":"2015-08-26T12:28:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T16:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=36745"},"modified":"2015-08-26T12:28:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T16:28:04","slug":"gulf-coast-medical-center-to-become-the-flagship-hospital-with-trauma-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/08\/gulf-coast-medical-center-to-become-the-flagship-hospital-with-trauma-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Coast Medical Center To Become The Flagship Hospital With Trauma Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-36746\" title=\"Gulf Coast\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Gulf-Coast-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Gulf-Coast-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Gulf-Coast.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Lee\u00a0Memorial Health System\u00a0plans to move its regional trauma center from Lee\u00a0Memorial Hospital in\u00a0Fort Myers\u00a0to\u00a0Gulf Coast Medical Center\u00a0as part of a $315 million expansion of that more\u00a0centrally located health center.<\/p>\n<p>The publicly operated health system\u00a0announced the plan\u00a0to employees this morning. Its elected governing board must still formally approve the move, which likely would not happen for several years.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Jim Nathan, the health system&#8217;s president and CEO, is\u00a0expected to formally announce the plans this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Memorial Hospital, the founding hospital of the now multi-centered\u00a0Lee Memorial Health System, would continue to operate its emergency department and perform its other acute-care hospital functions, health system administrators say. It would also be home to additional &#8220;wellness&#8221; and new\u00a0outpatient\u00a0programs.<\/p>\n<p>From a memo that Jim Nathan wrote to health system employees states; &#8220;Lee Memorial Hospital will continue to play a vital role in our healthcare system, as it has for nearly 100 years,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But moving the trauma center, which treats more life-threatening injuries than ERs, would further establish Gulf Coast as the organization&#8217;s flagship hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee\u00a0Memorial Health System\u00a0plans to move its regional trauma center from Lee\u00a0Memorial Hospital in\u00a0Fort Myers\u00a0to\u00a0Gulf Coast Medical Center\u00a0as part of a $315 million expansion of that more\u00a0centrally located health center. The&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\/36745"}],"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=36745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}