Hospice campus targets senior living complex

FORT MYERS — Volunteers of America, the nonprofit parent organization of Cape Coral's Gulf Coast Village, has broken ground on The Preserve, a new state-of-the-art skilled nursing and assisted living community in Fort Myers.

The Preserve is the first building to break ground at Hope Preserve, a health care campus planned to include multiple facilities and organizations dedicated to caring for seniors and for people who are chronically ill, according to a statement. The three-story, 118,000-square-foot community is currently under construction at the northeast corner of Six Mile Cypress Parkway and Michael G. Rippe Parkway in south Fort Myers.

“While envisioning the ideal Hope Preserve campus, we knew it was important to include partners that would complement our mission to improve the quality of life for people who are frail, aging or coping with serious illnesses,” Hope Healthcare President and CEO Samira Beckwith says in the release. “The Preserve's groundbreaking marks the first step in addressing our region's growing need for comforting care.”