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Lee Health employees receive a $50K donation from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation to support them after Hurricane Ian

Lee Health Foundation announced the organization received a donation of $50,000 from The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation for the Lee Health Employee Relief Fund. The gift will support the healthcare heroes who cared selflessly for their patients during and after Hurricane Ian, separating them from their families, experiencing devastating loss, and still putting their patients first. Just last week, Lee Health Foundation announced a $250,000 donation from The Elaine Nicpon Marieb Charitable Foundation, who identified the opportunity to make a significant impact for healthcare and nursing ...

Living Nativity Returns to Messiah Lutheran

After three years, the Living Nativity Diorama is returning to Messiah Lutheran Church on Pine Island Road in Cape Coral. But even though there have been many obstacles like COVID, participation and even Hurricane Ian, the congregation at Messiah has responded this year with a renewed passion ...

Local health system officials and staff reflect on two years of caring for COVID-19 patients

Two years after Lee County experienced its first case of COVID-19, local healthcare leaders reflected on the pandemic in a press conference Tuesday. Dr. Larry Antonucci, president and CEO of Lee Health, and Paul Hiltz, president and CEO of NCH Healthcare System, were joined by colleagues at Gulf Coast Medical Center addressing some of the challenges and tribulations of unprecedented events over the last 24 months. “It’s hard to believe that two years ago on March 4, that right here in this E.D., we had our first patient with COVID,” Antonucci said. “We had no idea what ...

Lee County remains ‘high’ risk area for COVID transmission

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last Friday updated its policies on wearing masks in correlation to the transmission level of COVID-19 in counties throughout the United States. As of the last update by the CDC on Feb.24, Lee County is designated as a “high” risk for ...

Lee Health to allow visits to patients with COVID-19

With the number of hospitalizations for COVID-19 continuing to fall at its hospitals, Lee Health announced that it will allow the visiting of patients who are positive with COVID-19. There were 112 patients with the coronavirus isolated at Lee Health hospitals on Monday morning, down from ...