Hospital system leaders resign over controversial program

Primary care physicians and residents took their opposition to NCH Healthcare’s hospitalist program to the streets of Naples , resulting in the resignations of CEO and chief of staff.

By Business Observer Staff
| 5:58 a.m. January 24, 2019
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Dr. Allen Weiss has resigned as president and CEO of NCH Healthcare System.

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NAPLES — Amid a growing public controversy over a Naples Community Hospital System pilot program that incorporates a patient-centric hospitalist within three of its in-patient units, President and CEO Dr. Allen Weiss and Chief of Staff Kevin Cooper have resigned.

The NCH Healthcare board voted unanimously Jan. 23 to accept their resignations.