Impact Stories

A $1 million gift from Michael and Shirley Benson will help shape the future of care for women, children and families in Southwest Florida. Among the first to step forward following the announcement of NCH’s Women’s & Children’s initiative in January, the Bensons are helping build early momentum for the future Van Domelen Pavilion for

Three local VolunTeens helped keep physical therapy moving while gaining a closer connection to patients, healthcare and their community. Ready to Lend a Hand Throughout June and July, the physical therapy team at NCH Marco Island could count on three additional pairs of hands.Every week, VolunTeens Addison Heinrich, Peyton Reed and Erica Tran each assisted

When Pat Scoville talks about giving, she rarely talks about dollars. Instead, she talks about people. She talks about children receiving the care they need. Families finding comfort close to home. Prevention, healing, recovery, and what she calls the continuum of care. To Pat, healthcare and philanthropy share something in common. Neither is defined by

Seated together around a long table before touring the Pat and Scot Kaufman Healthcare Center on the NCH Barbara and Steve Slaggie Campus, the women of the Marco Island Woman’s Club laughed easily with one another, finished each other’s stories, and reflected on nearly six decades of service to the island they call home. Long

A $5 million transformational gift from Glenn and Kay Hasse reflects a life shaped by experience, and a deep belief in what the NCH Rooney Heart Institute can become. Finding Naples, Finding Home Glenn and Kay Hasse did not come to Naples looking for a hospital. They came, like many do, drawn by something simpler.

When Bob Coletti talks about his late wife, Brynne, the stories come fast, vivid, and full of motion. She was the kind of person who made life feel larger the moment she walked into a room. She celebrated big. She believed big. She expected “big” of the people around her, not because she demanded attention,

Julie and Steve Vanderboom are inspired by nurses and deeply committed to improving healthcare for all of us in the communities they call home. Julie was a nurse for 35 years and held other high-level healthcare roles focused on quality, teamwork and leadership. Steve founded Pace®, a successful global firm that does environmental, pharmaceutical and

When Cheryl White arrived at NCH earlier this year, she unknowingly faced a heart attack, and with it, two major life-threatening complications that gave her a minimal chance of survival: less than 15 percent (a 100-percent chance of death if nothing was done). “I had been putting nose drops in two days earlier, when I

We’ve all had a doctor, nurse, hospital staffer or volunteer who went above and beyond to provide care and comfort to us. NCH is proud to offer our Guardian Angel program, a giving initiative for patients and families to honor those individuals. Each gift recognizes the compassion and dedication of our caregivers while supporting programs

It was a total mystery…Patient Glenda Bridges arrived at NCH just after suffering her third stroke this year. What made this so unusual is that it’s very rare to have strokes hit the same area repeatedly, but that was Glenda’s case. While her first two strokes had happened weeks apart in another state, she was