by: Talia Schmidt
When three nurses at NCH Healthcare System in Naples, Fla., were diagnosed with breast cancer back-to-back about seven ago, President and CEO Allen Weiss, M.D., wanted to better understand why. What they had in common, he learned, was that none of them had gotten regular mammograms.
“We are a health care institution with 715 beds, 4,300 folks, 80 percent women, and we own radiology equipment,” said Weiss, who serves on the AHA Board of Trustees. “We want to be an example, and we wanted to start practicing what we preach.”
That’s when Weiss and NCH decided to turn inward and experiment with how it could improve quality of life by focusing on prevention and reducing health care costs.
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