Allen S. Weiss
President and CEO, NCH Healthcare System
M.B.A.
Dr. Allen Weiss was appointed President and CEO of the NCH Healthcare System in September, 2006. Previously, he was President for over six years. He is responsible for a 715 bed, two-hospital integrated health care system in Naples, Florida. NCH is one of only twenty hospitals in the country affiliated with Mayo Clinic. NCH has been named three times by U. S. News and World Report as best in the region and among the fifty best cardiovascular programs according to Truven based on objective data.
After graduating from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and subsequently completing his training at both the New York Presbyterian Hospital and Hospital for Special Surgery of Cornell University, he had a solo practice in Rheumatology, Internal Medicine, and Geriatrics for twenty-three years. He is board certified in all three specialties and is recognized both as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology.
His interest in the development of the three core competencies of the NCH Healthcare System—demonstrated quality, operational efficiency and fiscal responsibility—began during his executive MBA program at Florida Gulf Coast University where he was subsequently named Distinguished Alumnus. Dr. Weiss also has led a very successful physician hospital organization that has recently developed expertise in utilization and case management while working with physicians to measure and demonstrate quality. At the state level, Dr. Weiss led the Quality committee of the Healthy Florida Foundation that subsequently shared recommendations for evidenced based medicine to transform healthcare. In 2008, he received Distinguished Executive of the Year recognition from the Women’s Bar Association. In 2010, he was recognized as one of the Men & Women of the year by Gulfshore Life.
In July 2005, Dr. Weiss had the honor of expressing his views with the U.S. House Ways and Means Health Subsection concerning the use of information technology in health care. He has also been invited to be a keynote speaker at various meetings and has been given the “Key to the City of Naples” for “his steadfast commitment to enriching the lives of the general public …” In 2012 he was named one of the Top 100 outstanding Physician leaders of healthcare systems by Becker’s Hospital Review. In 2013 he was named a “Man of Distinction,” and one of fifteen citizens who had the most influence on Naples during the past fifteen years. He also is one of thirty recipients of Becker’s Healthcare 2013 Leadership Award for remarkable contributions and lasting legacies and named twice by the same institution as a nonprofit hospital and health system CEO to know.
Additionally, Dr. Weiss is Treasurer of the Florida Hospital Association and Vice Chairman of the Upper Midwest Voluntary Hospital Association of America. He is on the Boards of the Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Florida, Forum Club, Regional Advisory Council of the American Hospital Association, Wolford School for Certified Nurse Anesthesiology, Telford Board, and American Momentum Bank since inception.
His wife, Dr. Marla Weiss, is a writer and educator. They have two daughters who are physicians, one a biomedical illustrator/educator and the other an adolescent medicine physician/educator.