Our Local Area
Our residents and staff love all that Fort Myers offers. Living here is the best of both worlds, you'll enjoy the small-town feel right next to the beautiful Gulf of Mexico, as well as quick access to larger metropolitan areas. Miami, Tampa, and Fort Lauderdale are all within a two-hour drive.
Outdoors
- Explore Florida's natural waterways through fishing, paddle boarding, kayaking.
- If you want to keep your feet dry, Florida has state & regional parks, bike & running trails, and over 104 local golf courses.
- And who doesn't love spending time at the beach, Lee county alone, has 17 beaches to enjoy
Food!
- Florida's local food scene includes seasonal farmer’s markets, micro-breweries, and fresh-caught seafood
Art and Music
- Downtown Fort Myers hosts monthly Art and Music festivals, and the Sidney Berne & Davis Art Center has regular gallery showings of local artists
- The Barbra B Mann Performing Arts Hall hosts prominent entertainers, dance performances, popular ensembles and classical music concerts year-round
Lee Health System
Lee Health is the one of the largest public health systems in the US founded in 1916 with more than 2 million patient contacts each year and over 950 primary and specialty care physicians and advanced practitioners in 100+ locations throughout Southwest Florida. We have four acute care hospitals and two specialty hospitals and the residency program functions primarily from:
- Lee Memorial Hospital | Family Medicine Clinic, Inpatient Medicine, Emergency Medicine, ICU, and Behavioral Medicine
- HealthPark Medical Center | Cardiac Center, and Obstetrics Center
- Golisano Children's Hospital | Pediatric Inpatient Medicine, and Pediatric ER
Lee Memorial Hospital
Lee Memorial Hospital is a 336-bed hospital located in the heart of Fort Myers, and also houses the Rehabilitation Hospital, a comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation facility.
Family Medicine Residency Clinic
Our Family Medicine Center is located at Lee Memorial Hospital, close to downtown Fort Myers and with spectacular views of the Caloosahatchee river. We offer patients fully integrated care with a multidisciplinary team including two full-time psychologists, a pharmacist, an embedded post-doctoral psychology fellow, and medical social workers.
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HealthPark Medical Center
HealthPark Medical Center is a 461-bed acute care facility that opened in 1991. More than 1,600 individuals are employed at HealthPark Medical Center, which also has more than 1,000 physicians on its medical staff and more than 1,000 volunteers.
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Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida
Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida is Lee Health’s newest facility. Opened in May 2017 the 300,000 square foot Golisano Children's hospital has 135 hospital beds in its state-of-the-art, family-centered, full-service children's hospital.
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Community Engagement
We see community outreach as an integral part of being a family medicine physician. Our program serves a population with significant health disparities and are always looking for ways to engage with our local area to combat these disparities. Here are just some of the programs we partner with:
Our resident physicians and faculty partner work with teen mothers and young women along with the PACE Center and LAMP, providing educational programming.
We work with local high schools to provide required sports physicals, including travelling to Immokalee, a historically unserved migrant-worker population.
Residents, faculty and our nursing staff join alongside community members at Utopia Unisex Salon to get to know our community's health needs, check blood pressure, and offer supportive services at barbershop wellness.
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