Southeastern North Carolina Provides Convenient Healthcare Options

While southeastern North Carolina’s finest beaches and the historic port city of Wilmington are just a short drive away, Brunswick Forest residents have access to the area’s best medical services without leaving their resort-style community.

The Villages at Brunswick Forest is a 160-acre town center with grocery markets, restaurants, and retail shops. But what makes The Villages so conveniently unique are the numerous healthcare services available, starting with the Novant Health Brunswick Forest Medical Center. This 40,000-square-foot facility features primary care physician offices, an express care clinic open seven days a week, and complete gastroenterology, rheumatology, urology, and neurology services. Recent medical center expansions include the Novant Health Cancer Institute, with 15 infusion chairs for chemotherapy and hematology treatments and an on-site diagnostic laboratory for rapid test results. They’re all part of the regional Novant Health network that includes an 800-bed hospital and the University of North Carolina medical school campus just 10 miles away.

Dr. Darshan Dave is an internal medicine specialist who sees patients at the Novant Health Brunswick Forest Medical Center. “We’re pleased to offer this growing area convenient access to not only primary and express care,” he says, “but also imaging, lab services, multiple specialty physicians, and other clinicians so that residents of this community have healthcare options close to home.”

Novant Health also offers medical evaluations, screenings, and educational programs at the Brunswick Forest Fitness and Wellness Center. The 18,000-square-foot facility features the latest workout equipment, aerobics classes, indoor/outdoor pools, and tennis/pickleball courts, all connected to residential neighborhoods by hiking and biking trails.

Additional medical service providers located in The Villages include EmergOrtho’s Brunswick Forest Surgery Center for outpatient procedures and other orthopedic treatments. Coastal Integrative Health is a full-service chiropractic center, while residents can keep their smiles in shape at Bluewave Dentistry, Cherubini Orthodontics, and Airlie Oral Surgery. Complete optometric services are available at Wilmington Eye and the Swell Vision Center. And to make sure that all family members get the care they need, the Brunswick Forest Veterinary Hospital offers a full range of pet-friendly treatment services.

“We’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback about the convenience of our community healthcare facilities,” says Jerry Helms, President of Brunswick Forest Realty. “Along with so many healthy-lifestyle recreational amenities, we’re proud to offer our residents such a diversity of high-quality medical services located here on-site at Brunswick Forest.”

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State of the Art Healthcare in Southwest Florida

Lakewood Ranch is a master-planned community in southwest Florida that covers 33,000 acres in Sarasota and Manatee counties. Its more than 60,000 residents live in neighborhood villages surrounding three town centers, enjoy unparalleled recreational amenities, and have access to on-site medical services that would be the envy of any small city in America.

In the heart of Lakewood Ranch is the community’s 120-bed hospital, the Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, which offers top-rated treatment facilities from emergency and intensive care to surgical and post-operative services. As the community has grown, the Medical Center has kept pace, most recently adding 28,000 square feet in 2019 that included two state-of-the-art surgical suites and a 2020 expansion of its Women’s Center with new maternity- and obstetrical-care facilities. And construction begins later this year on an adjacent five-story patient tower that will add 60 beds in the first phase, with room for 60 more as needed. Lakewood Ranch is also home to the renowned Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, which offers cutting-edge radiation, chemotherapy, and rehabilitation services. Specialty centers like the Coastal Eye Institute and Coastal Orthopedics complement the wide variety of treatment services for residents offered by Intercoastal Medical and other family practices with primary care and outpatient services. In addition, Lakewood Ranch has five distinctive independent- and assisted-living centers, as well as urgent care locations and retail pharmacies throughout the community.

“More and more, home buyers are placing an increasingly high priority on health and wellness,” says Sandy Shahinian, vice-president of sales and marketing for Lakewood Ranch. “Among the top reasons cited for living in a master-planned community are a healthy lifestyle and convenient access to healthcare. Lakewood Ranch has the resources for all of our residents’ medical needs, whether they’re preventive, emergency, specialized, or longer-term care, and they’re all located on The Ranch.”

That healthy lifestyle at Lakewood Ranch began with a plan of environmental stewardship that set aside 40% of the land for open space and recreation. Thousands of conservation-area acres are connected to 12 community parks by a 150-mile network of multi-surface trails for hiking and biking. In addition to fully-equipped fitness facilities and racquet-sports clubs, Lakewood Ranch is home to seven private and resort golf clubs that are open for year-round play. From softball and soccer tournaments at The Premier Sports Campus to sunset strolls on nearby Gulf Coast beaches, better health for residents of all ages and convenient medical services are a way of life at Lakewood Ranch.

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