Health care growth in The Villages morphed into a new phase last week with the opening of the Brownwood Care Center. But the opening of that 20,000-square-foot medical facility signals only the next step in the health care group’s goal of transforming The Villages into “America’s Healthiest Hometown,” said Dr. Jeffrey Lowenkron, The Villages Health’s chief medical officer. The health care group now embarks upon a new development phase on 31 acres just west of the care center in partnership with Anchor Health Properties, a privately owned Charlottesville, Virginia-based health care development company. Anchor Health anticipates breaking ground sometime in the first quarter 2018 on a 285,000-square-foot multi-specialty health care center connected to a 150-room hotel and conference center with a spa and a Wolfgang Puck-licensed restaurant on that property. Also: One reason accounts for this unprecedented growth in new health care services at Brownwood — new Villagers buying homes.

Source: Daily Sun October 23, 2017 13:18 UTC