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Healthcare in Leesburg

Leesburg Regional Medical Center (LRMC) is building healthcare excellence in our community, winning national acclaim for the quality of its care, facilities and people.

For over 43 years, this 309-bed, not-for-profit, regional medical center (including a 15-bed inpatient comprehensive medical rehabilitation facility) and 120-bed skilled nursing facility, provide a full range of services—such as open heart and neurosurgery—seldom seen outside a metropolitan area or teaching hospital. The hospital is also the only Certified Primary Stroke Center in the region.

In the fall of 2007, LRMC began a $65 million expansion of The Villages Regional Hospital (TVRH), which it opened in 2002 with 60 beds. Marking their fifth anniversary, the expansion will triple the number of beds at the hospital, add three floors, and the first hospital-based cardiac catheterization program in The Villages area.

Recently, LRMC and TVRH was the only hospital system in the country (and one of 10 organizations nationwide) recognized with a first-ever BreakThrough Award, presented by Civic Ventures and funded by the MetLife Foundation, for providing meaningful public interest jobs for people over 50.

LRMC has been named Florida’s only “Hospital of Choice” two years in a row. Its open heart program is ranked 2nd in the state in volumes, according to the Agency for Health Care Administration.

The hospitals were also named the #1 Company for Working Families in Central Florida by Sentinel Communications two years running, and were named 4th in the nation by AARP’s “Best Employers for Workers 50 & Over.”

TVRH was named Florida’s only 2006 100 Top Hospital by Solucient. It also received the CareScience Select Practice National Quality Leader Hospital designation, and was recognized with a 2007 VHA Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence.

If you’re one of more than five million Americans suffering from non-healing wounds, the Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center at LRMC, opened in the June of 2007, uses the latest technology and knowledge available to help healing happen.

For 35 years, LifeStream Behavioral Center and Hospital has been the primary provider of outpatient and inpatient behavioral healthcare services throughout Lake and Sumter counties, bringing hope to life by empowering individuals and families to achieve recovery and resiliency.

Today, LifeStream is in the midst of an ambitious capital campaign to build a 36,000-square-foot, 72-bed comprehensive residential treatment facility, called the “Hope and Recovery” Center, adjacent to their 62-bed hospital located in Leesburg.

With nearly 20 separate facilities, “hope comes to life” through a huge range of mental health and behavioral services for children, adults, families and the elderly.

Since 1984, the not-for-profit Hospice of Lake & Sumter has helped families, step-by-step, learn how to make every day……a gift.

Hospice of Lake & Sumter is not a place, but a philosophy of care with an emphasis on quality of life rather than on shortening or prolonging life.

Their nurses, physicians, home health aides, social workers, chaplains, therapists and trained volunteers work together with patients, their families, and their private physicians, to provide care and comfort, aggressive symptom management, and an assurance that no one need be alone at the end of life.

Hospice care is usually provided within the familiar setting of home, although it also goes beyond the home to retirement centers, nursing homes, adult living facilities. Hospice of Lake & Sumter also has two beautiful Hospice Houses in Lake and Sumter counties, with two more under construction.

In addition, they provide services such as bereavement counseling, children’s bereavement camps and palliative care programs.