Hospital system scores big gains in residency program

Lee Health has retained 20 of 24 doctors in Southwest Florida with its family medicine residency program. Now it hopes to duplicate that success with a new internal medicine residency.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:00 a.m. July 19, 2019
Courtesy. Lee Health and Florida State University will collaborate on an internal medicine residency program at Cape Coral Hospital.
Courtesy. Lee Health and Florida State University will collaborate on an internal medicine residency program at Cape Coral Hospital.
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With successful results of its family medicine residency program serving as precedent, Lee Health believes it has the prescription for addressing a shortage of medical doctors in Southwest Florida. To attract more doctors to the growing region, the hospital system will collaborate with Florida State University College of Medicine to create an internal medicine residence program at Cape Coral Hospital. 

 

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