Mayor John Gunter wants a new full-service hospital in north Cape Coral. The push stems from packed emergency rooms and rising medical demands in Florida’s eighth-largest city.
Right now, Cape Coral Hospital on Del Prado Boulevard stands as the city’s sole full-service medical center. While HCA runs an emergency room on Pine Island Road, it handles just basic urgent care needs.
“Growth, wait times, if you only have one hospital, yeah, high demand,” Gunter told Gulf Coast News. He points to the city’s northern section as prime real estate, where population spikes loom in the next 10 years…