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Medical Industry Supports Healthy Growth

One of our nation’s few irradiation facilities, F.T.S.I. is located in our community to sterilize saline solution, water and all types of medical devices and consumer goods.
Doyen Medipharm, which manufactures sophisticated equipment used to sterile wrap medical supplies, is located in Lakeland, as is Vanguard Medical concepts, which sterilizes medical equipment for reuse by the hospital industry.
Polk County’s healthcare payroll is approximately $755 million. Average health employment is 20,000 persons out of a countywide workforce of 256,000.
Two new regional cancer centers have recently opened in Lakeland. The Lakeland Regional Cancer Center and the Center for Cancer Care & Research have received numerous awards for exceptional patient care, and the medical centers attract some of America’s top surgeons.
All of our major regional and community hospitals—including Winter Haven Hospital, Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center, Bartow Regional Medical Center, Lake Wales Medical Center and Lakeland Regional Medical Center—have recently completed, or are in the process of, new capital projects including expansions of their physical plants. Lakeland Regional Medical Center is the fourth largest hospital in Florida, occupying more than one million square feet of space and housing 851 beds.
Major clinics with satellite offices in our community include the Watson and Bond clinics.
Our 10 universities, colleges and technical centers are available to train nurses, technicians, paramedics, clinical lab personnel and other health professionals.
The University of South Florida will open a major new research campus on Interstate 4 in Polk County in 2010 and it is expected that part of the curriculum will be based on our growing health care industry.
There are 945 licensed medical and osteopathic doctors in Polk County in early 2005, some of which are retired or not practicing.