The vacant land is near both Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital at 17000 Porter Road.
Cano Health now controls DMC’s 18 medical centers located in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
The organization hopes to have the new unit open by the third quarter of 2022.
The applicants want to rezone the site to allow for a 60,000-square-foot hospital building and a 60,000-square-foot medical office building.
Lee Health would lease a two-story building that is working its way through the Village of Estero application process.