Welcome to Naples Community Hospital
Outstanding Medical Care:
A Progressive Approach
NCH Baker Hospital Downtown and NCH North Naples Hospital provide personalized care for over 40,500 patients a year in our two-hospital, 739 bed system. NCH's outstanding reputation is confirmed by The Joint Commission, in its award of accreditation to both NCH hospitals.
NCH Healthcare System, a not-for-profit healthcare organization, was founded in 1953 and NCH Baker Hospital was the first hospital in Naples, Florida. For the last 7 years, NCH Healthcare System ranked in the top 5% nationally for overall clinical excellence and was recognized by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations for our acute care and ambulatory services
The NCH Healthcare System delivers innovative medical care for stroke victims - our nationally recognized Code Save-A-Brain Program, capitalizes on our extraordinary core competency of recognizing and quickly treating life-threatening conditions.
NCH is a Joint Commission designated Primary Stroke Center
NCH is an AHCA designated Comprehensive Stroke Center
NCH received AHA "Get with The Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus"
The NCH Heart Institute offers the most progressive cardiac care in southwest Florida, we are home to the only Open Heart Surgery Program in Collier County. We provide the highest quality of cardiovascular care, the Institute is recognized for its Code Save-A-Heart Program, Open Heart Surgery Program, and Structural Heart Program (TAVR & WATCHMAN).
Our Graduate Medical Education (GME) at the NCH Healthcare System in Naples Florida, has been enthusiastically growing and developing in our community system since our first classes of Internal Medicine residents and Pharmacy residents started in July 2017, and who’s inaugural class graduated in June 2020.
GME has become an integral part the NCH system.
Mission Statement:
Our mission is to recruit, train and retain excellent Internal Medicine physicians. As such, we focus on academic educational approaches to all aspects of clinical medicine, shared decision making and team based practice. We hope to facilitate the transition from community hospital to teaching hospital by improving overall quality of expertise and providing new well-trained practitioners of primary care Internal Medicine to our community.
Program Aims:
To train excellent internal medicine physician leaders and educators. At the end of their training, our residents will have the expertise, education and knowledge to succeed in whatever aspect of Internal Medicine they may choose. Retention of our trainees in the local community to address the need for internal medicine physicians.
BLUE ZONES PROJECT
Blue Zones Project, a collaboration of NCH and Healthways, will ignite and lead a community-by-community movement to improve the well-being across Southwest Florida through the application of the learnings from the Blue Zones. Blue Zones Project will focus on permanent environmental and policy changes that will make the healthy choice the easy choice. For example, experts will work with restaurants to find ways to provide better and affordable choices, such as making fresh fruit the default option rather than French fries. Also, rather than asking residents to walk or bike more, walking and cycling will be made easier and more desirable than driving.
Blue Zones Project will encourage all communities across Southwest Florida to become Blue Zones Communities® in the coming years. Those who exhibit the greatest passion, interest, and ability to transform their communities will receive assistance from international experts to transform the well-being of their community. The selected communities will lead the way in transforming well-being across Southwest Florida and will share their experiences with others who are adopting Blue Zones principles.
The people of Southwest Florida and their communities will have the ability to leverage tools and resources that will enable them to start changing their environment. By becoming a Blue Zones Community, you’ll help your friends and neighbors live longer, happier lives free of chronic disease because the healthy choice becomes the easy choice.
THE BLUE ZONES PROJECT DIFFERENCE
Anyone who has ever made a healthy New Year’s resolution knows the challenges of maintaining it over time. Your circumstances and environment conspire against you, making the goal difficult to achieve. It’s the same challenge faced by traditional health improvement programs that rely on behavior change alone.
Blue Zones Project is different because it takes an environmental approach to improve well-being. By optimizing our environments — those settings where we spend our time and which influence our behavior — we can make the healthy choice the easy choice so that we naturally adopt healthy behaviors.
For more information, please visit www.nchmd.org