“At the time, New York was going through a financial crisis, and Florida was about to take off economically,” he says. In 1977, he opened a practice in downtown Naples, specializing in geriatrics, internal medicine and rheumatology. He then completed his residency training at New York Presbyterian Hospital and did a rheumatology fellowship at Cornell University’s Hospital for Special Surgery.Īfter vacationing in southwest Florida, he thought Naples would be a good place to work and raise a family. Weiss attended medical school at Columbia University in New York City. “I was much more studious than I might have been otherwise.” I was socially not mature, which may have been an advantage,” he says. Weiss studied biology and chemistry at LaSalle University in Philadelphia. His dad was a high school vice principal who also owned a small marketing business his mom helped run the business out of their home. Weiss grew up in Philadelphia, the second of three sons. Now, we get something like that every month.” “In 2003, we got a quality award for cardiology and had a huge celebration. “Prior to 2003, we didn’t win any quality awards,” he says. Weiss estimates that NCH has a 75% market share in Collier. Today, NCH competes in Collier against two Physicians Regional hospitals operated by Community Health Systems. That same year, the 83-bed Cleveland Clinic Naples, after failing to get state approval to offer heart surgery, became part of Health Management Associates, which has since become part of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems. NCH is one of 45 hospital systems nationwide affiliated with Mayo Clinic.
It also owns 50% of the Bonita Community Health Center in Bonita Springs. It operates hospitals in downtown Naples and north Naples and the Marco Healthcare Center on Marco Island. NCH: The non-profit, 716-bed Naples Community Hospital Healthcare System has about 4,300 employees, including 730 physicians, and is one of the largest employers in Collier County. After running the practice for 23 years, he closed it and joined NCH as a top administrator. from College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University (1973), MBA from Florida Gulf Coast University (2001)įamily: He and his wife, Marla Weiss, an educator and writer, have two daughters - one works as a biomedical illustrator the other as an adolescent medicine doctor.īackground: In 1977, Weiss moved to Naples to establish a private practice in geriatrics, internal medicine and rheumatology. “You have to give patients a better chance of survival if they come to your hospital.”Įducation: B.A. “It’s not just about being nice” to patients or physicians, he says. An early advocate of electronic health records, he saw the ability to “slice and dice” data as crucial to providing better care. Weiss joined NCH as chief medical officer and soon became president, focused on demonstrating improvements in patient outcomes.
Crone believed that with Weiss in a top management position, NCH could boost its physician relations. He also had been a volunteer leader of a local network of NCH-affiliated physicians. Allen Weiss, would join NCH.įor 23 years, Weiss had owned a successful private practice in Naples. Realizing that competition for medical staff was about to heat up, William Crone, then CEO of NCH, asked if a local rheumatologist, Dr. Cleveland Clinic, which already had operations in Broward County, was building a hospital in Naples. In 2000, NCH Healthcare System faced the end of its long run as the only hospital provider in Collier County. NCH’s Allen Weiss combines numbercrunching with a focus on prevention.
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