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Access to medical care is an important piece of any healthy, thriving community and Palm Coast is no exception. While Advent Health has a major footprint in the area (with two hospitals and a third campus on the way), there’s still a significant lack of speciality medical services within the city limits.
“How many of us in this community have to drive to New Smyrna, Orlando, St. Johns County or Jacksonville for medical services?” said Jeff Douglas, president of Douglas Property & Development. “Or we have to wait weeks or months for health services here.
In the 2019 Department of Health Flagler County Community Assessment, 42% of people said that mental health and counseling services were hard to obtain while 29% said alternative therapy and 25% said speciality doctor care such as a heart doctor. Almost 15% said it was difficult to obtain dental or oral care.
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Share From apartment complexes in walkable neighborhoods to single-family homes, Douglas Property and Development aims to create more housing options for residents by: Emily Blackwood
It’s no secret that Palm Coast is slowly, but surely, becoming a more popular place to live.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the population in Flagler County grew by 20.3% (or 115,000 people) between 2010 and 2019, and even during a global pandemic, 240,256 people still moved to Florida in 2020. If these trends tell us anything, it’s that Palm Coast will need to provide more housing and fast to keep up with incoming residents.
In addition to bringing more medical jobs and larger educational institutions to the city, Douglas Property & Development President Jeff Douglas knows that ample housing is another necessary piece of the economic puzzle.