Founded in 1956, NCH began as one hospital downtown and has since transformed into a comprehensive healthcare system with dozens of locations throughout Naples and Southwest Florida.

The new NCH brand is a testament to our transformation journey and reflects our clinical advancements and visionary leadership.

For those seeking premier comprehensive care, NCH is the only independent Advanced Community Healthcare System™ and trusted community pillar expanding access to leading-edge quality care and accomplished clinicians that restore and strengthen well-being. This includes:

  • Providing higher acuity care and Centers of Excellence
  • Providing Graduate Medical Education
  • Having five endowed chairs
  • Participating in national clinical trials
  • Partnering with other health market leaders, such as Nicklaus Children’s, Encompass, HSS, ProScan and others

Mission

Our mission is to help everyone live a longer, happier and healthier life.

Vision

Our vision is that NCH will be a world-class leader of excellence in healthcare.

At NCH, we believe care is a call to action.

Care compels us to provide premier comprehensive healthcare and fuels our endeavor to usher in a new era of leading-edge, best-in-class care for Southwest Florida and beyond.

We’re not just forward-thinking; we’re forward-doing.

We bring together the acumen of world-class clinicians with technology and techniques that are breaking the boundaries of what’s possible. By participating in research and clinical trials, we are illuminating what’s next. And with expanded access to premier comprehensive care, more patients experience life-changing results.

Being an independent nonprofit organization empowers us to do that. We make decisions locally to do what’s best for our community, and we continually reinvest in elevating the quality of care available across our network.

It’s our privilege to be trusted with the health of our residents.

We remain tireless in our commitment to surpass the status quo and be the home of next-generation medicine.

4,095 employees and hundreds of volunteers

Established in 1956

Not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization

NCH is a network of two hospitals, dozens of outpatient facilities and nearly 1,100 physicians and allied health professionals

American Heart Association  Gold Plus Award Stroke Designation 2022

The Only CMS 4-Star in Collier County for Five Consecutive Years

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