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Blue Waters Development Group to hold blood drive Tuesday

Blue Waters Development Group at 2503 Del Prado Blvd., S., in Cape Coral, will hold a blood drive Tuesday, June 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Look for OneBlood's Big Red Bus. All donors will receive a $20 eGift Card, a OneBlood T-shirt and a wellness checkup, including blood pressure, pulse, temperature, iron count and cholesterol screening. Appointments are encouraged. Please visit oneblood.org/donate-now and use sponsor code 73754. An ID is required.

Additional services now available at Lee Health Outpatient Center in Cape

As a way to meet the continued needs of a growing Cape Coral, the county's top healthcare provider announced that additional services are now operational at an existing facility. Lee Health's Outpatient Center at Surfside can now offer orthopedics, rheumatology and rehabilitation services, while also featuring a breast health center, imaging, lab services and will have primary care physician offices on-site as part of its second phase completion. Located at the intersection of Veterans Parkway and Surfside Boulevard, Lee Health officials said this phase I also bringing Lee ...

Expanded ICU opens at Cape Coral Hospital

Lee Health's continued progress towards serving a larger number of Cape residents took a leap Monday morning, as the ribbon was cut for an expansion of the ICU unit at Cape Coral Hospital. Dozens of hospital employees, Lee Health executives and leaders, and all that lent a hand in making the ...

SCHEA to host Lee Health blood drive Saturday

SCHEA will be hosting a Lee Health blood drive this Saturday, Dec. 23, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The bus will be parked in Club Square, behind the BackStreets Sports Bar on Southeast 47th Terrace. Type O- remains critically low, and supply levels for all other blood types are also below ...

Lee Health named as top hospital system nationwide for social responsibility and Health Equity by the Lown Institute

Lee Health has been recognized for its commitment to social responsibility and health equity, named the number one health system in the U.S for social responsibility and health equity from the Lown Institute. Lee Health received an “A” Grade on the Lown Institute Hospitals Index for Social Responsibility and all Lee Health hospital locations ranked in the top-5 in Florida. The Lown Institute is a nonpartisan organization that uses publicly available data to rank nearly 4,000 hospitals and 300 health systems nationwide. Launched in 2020, it was the first ranking to assess the ...

More than $120,000 distributed to medical employees for hurricane relief

SWFL Children’s Charities Inc. and Lee Health Foundation partnered with the United Way of Lee, Hendry and Glades to provide hurricane relief to medical staff at Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida. Through this collaboration, the partners will be disbursing more than $120,000 through the SWFL Cares Relief Fund. SWFL Children’s Charities, Inc. started the SWFL Cares Relief Fund in October 2022 to raise funds to directly support the employees in the medical field in our Southwest Florida community after the devastating effects of Hurricane Ian. More than $71,000 ...