Aggressive treatment

Think roads were crowded this season? Try the emergency rooms.

With patients crowding hallways of its four hospitals, Lee Memorial Health System is embarking on an aggressive expansion that could cost $625 million over the next five years.

The system is already spending $150 million to build the Golisano Children's Hospital in Fort Myers, and it has proposed spending another $175 million on a new health campus that includes emergency services in the fast-growing area of Estero, home to the new Hertz global headquarters.