退院して以来、健康問題がなかったといいですね。

I hope you haven't had any problems since you got out of hospital.
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Can I use といいですね in this situation? "I hope you haven't fallen ill again"
No, first, なかったと is not a conditional clause. It's given by combination of
present tense and と. Second, the form of ないといい **ですね** doesn't make really
good sense here because the listener can not hope it together. The one who can
hope is only you. So, how about 退院して以来健康問題がないといい **な** と思います or so?
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You can't really use this expression as it sounds weird. The most natural
would be `退院してから、体の調子はいかがでしたか？` or `退院してから順調にご回復されていれば良いのですが` and then when
you have information that they were ok, go `それは良かったです` or something.

`退院して以来、健康問題がなかったといいですね` sounds ungrammatical. `退院して以来健康問題がないといいなと思います` sounds
weird because a) it sounds like the speaker was ill, and b) ないといいな would mean
"I hope there won't be anything in the future", but 以来 implies talking about
the past, so it doesn't go together. `退院して以来、健康に問題がなかったのであれば、良かったですね` would be
grammatical but it doesn't work the way the english sentence work (casually
expressing sympathy).
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