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Old 04-15-2017, 01:50 PM
 
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.......... My wife and I can rent a million dollar family retreat on a cliff overlooking the Pacific for $1,000 a week. We go there, have a good time, and go home. ............


There isn't much around Florence but sand dunes, but they do have a Peace Health satellite clinic. Peace Health is based out of Eugene, about an hour and a half away, and offers excellent care. ........
I agree the Oregon coast is definitely worth visiting and spending some time....after April and before November.


The Peace Health facility in Eugene may indeed offer excellent care, but it is still only a small community hospital of roughly 100 beds. That is not where I would want to go for anything major.
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Old 04-15-2017, 02:01 PM
 
Location: The High Desert
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There are a lot of considerations besides health care.
City dwellers might encounter a steep learning curve if they end up on a well with a septic system for the first time. After four years in the desert I'm still discovering things I had never dealt with before but I love it (brain food). I just learned that my Saltillo floor tile needs to be stripped and resealed. What? I'm fine with health care because I'm fairly close to Albuquerque and have the best doctor I've ever had.
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Old 04-15-2017, 03:55 PM
 
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As far as I am concerned being near a major city is the best way to enjoy a retirement in a rural area. There are a lot of places were you can find the best of two worlds...peaceful and beautiful rural surroundings with healthcare and cultural events nearby. I am 50 miles or a 1 1/2 hr train ride from NYC. I am still pretty close to open spaces, beaches, greenbelt hiking trails and the like. I can walk to a major University campus where I take courses and attend concerts and other performances.
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Old 04-15-2017, 04:51 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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Fortunately where my parents will retire to soon actually just built a new hospital back around 2010. Though it's near a popular lake with an ever-growing population.
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Old 04-16-2017, 08:12 AM
 
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Where we live, we have some snow storms in the winter, with annual snow fall at just 30 inches. But not deep snow, and they still fly planes and helicopters in nearly all weather conditions. We have a hospital (small) two years old, that is a trauma center. And only 45 miles to major medical center. There is a teleconference room, with all kinds of test equipment that can be hooked up by a trained operator, and the specialist in either Billings, or the main Mayo Clinic hospital (our medical system is only one of 7 in the nation that is a Mayo Clinic affiliate). The lab is across the hall from it.

The Digital X-Ray room and sonar are just down the hall. All are right close to the emergency room, where you do not have to wait more than 15 minutes to have a doctor with you 24 hours a day. All the latest test equipment, X-Ray equipment, etc., etc., only 2 years old at the oldest. The X-Ray is taken, and the specialist in Billings or Rochester Minnesota reading them immediately when needed.

The hospital is only 1 1/2 miles from our house.

Living in a small town, does not mean you can't get good medical care. In our area, they keep replacing our older hospitals with new ones in the small towns. They keep building new multiple story buildings at the main hospital. They have been electronic records for many years, and any doctor in the system can look at your records anywhere in the system, and you never have to carry your records to the other facilities. They went this route, long before the government wanted them to all go this way.
Is it like this everywhere in Montana (or Idaho or other rural west). I haven't heard that this is the norm. I wonder if you live someplace like Livingston where all the rich celebs live.
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Old 04-16-2017, 09:42 AM
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Location: Middle Tennessee
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When we were contemplating on where we would retire, medical facilities were part of the equation, but not the dominant part. We would up in a city of about 35,000 with a regional medical center. About 250 beds; Heart Center, Cancer Center, Spine Center, etc. Associated with Vanderbilt Medical if needed. Not exactly the Mayo Clinic, but not a tiny facility either.

We are about 5-10 minutes away right at the foot of the Cumberland Plateau. Peaceful and quiet, you could hear a pin drop this morning if it wasn't for those noisy mockingbirds. This area works for us, but everyone is different. Some want to live in a huge city with immediate access to world class medical and some want to be out in the countryside and medical is way down on their list of needs. Which works out very well to spread out the population.
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Old 04-16-2017, 01:08 PM
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Location: North Monterey County
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Several friends retired from the SF Bay Area to Florence...

They liked it a lot but when they passed away, their kids wanted no part of it and the 3 homes were sold... the reason one said is they had never visited and NOT used the windshield wipers at least once each day...

As for small clinics/towns... they can surprise you.

We were on a ski trip at Tahoe and a friend badly injured herself... I took her to the "Clinic" in Truckee... wondering if this was a smart move.

Turns out a premier orthopedic surgeon was there and she was in the best hands possible...

The specialty is ortho injuries... who would have thought?
Park City, UT just got it's first hospital. Prior to that trauma injuries from the ski slopes would have to be transported to the Salt Lake Valley.

Olympic teams train here..... so the docs follow.

My spouse had his meniscus tear repaired by Eric Heiden.
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Old 04-16-2017, 03:29 PM
 
Location: Myrtle Creek, Oregon
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I agree the Oregon coast is definitely worth visiting and spending some time....after April and before November.


The Peace Health facility in Eugene may indeed offer excellent care, but it is still only a small community hospital of roughly 100 beds. That is not where I would want to go for anything major.
You must be thinking of the hospital in Florence. The Eugene facility is a million square foot campus.

https://www.peacehealth.org/sacred-h...ges/campus-map
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Old 04-16-2017, 04:21 PM
 
Location: University City, Philadelphia
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It gives me a good feeling to be living just 5 blocks from not only one of the very best hospitals in the country ... but in the entire world.

For more than 20 years the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has always ranked in the top 10 of all hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. It has an international reputation and stands among the very best: Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN), the Cleveland Clinic, NYU/Columbia Presbyterian (NYC), Brigham & Women's (Boston) and Barnes Jewish (St. Louis).

It is a teaching and research hospital. They are equipped to do the most complicated procedures.

These things are important to me.

Let me bring something else, though: it is really great to be a 10 minute walk from the University's Dental School. Last year I needed some dental bridgework and a tooth extraction ... a private dentist would have charged about $2,500 for all the procedures. Instead I decided to try out the Dental School because my friends and neighbors raved about the quality of the care they received there. Well, it worked out fantastic ... I have a perfect permanent bridge in the back of my lower jaw, it cost $800 of which Officer Clark's dental insurance covered $600 of, and I just had to pay $200 out of pocket.
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Old 04-16-2017, 04:41 PM
 
Location: Cody, WY
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I'm very glad that I'm not a ten minute walk (1/2 mile?) from the hospital here. If I were, it would mean that I lived in town surrounded by humans. It's a ten minute walk as well, but there are no humans or buildings, no streets or sidewalks either . I did see a rabbit, but rabbits are fine. Bears, coyotes, cougars, mice, deer, antelope, and elk are all fine too. It's just those rotten humans I can't stand. One or two at a time are alright, but if there are more than that—yuck. Needless to say, my neighbors picked the same area that I did so they much share at least some of my opinions.
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