Encompass Health Corp. and Lee Health announced a collaboration to jointly own and operate two new inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in Southwest Florida.

The Lee Health Board of Directors approved its investment in collaboration with Encompass Health. 

One of the hospitals will be a 40-bed, freestanding inpatient rehabilitation hospital currently under construction at 1730 NE Pine Island Road and scheduled to open in May 2022.

The other hospital, anticipated to open in 2024, will be a 60-bed, freestanding inpatient rehabilitation hospital on Lee Health’s Gulf Coast Medical Center campus in Fort Myers.