The Lakeland City Council has approved plans for a new rehabilitation hospital to be built on a site that was teed up for a future office development.
On Monday, the city council approved a zoning amendment to allow Birmingham, Alabama-based health care company Encompass Health Corp. (NYSE: EHC) to build a 83,000-square-foot, 90-bed rehab hospital on the site, which is north of Oakbridge Parkway and east of Harden Boulevard behind GTE Financial’s branch bank.
Rehab hospitals are unique as…