$10 million naming gift the Coletti Family to advance women’s cancer care

Naples Comprehensive Health has received a $10 million gift from the Brynne and Robert Coletti Family to advance women’s cancer care, a transformational act of philanthropy that turns one family’s loss into a regional lifeline for patients across Southwest Florida.

The donation, announced February 19, 2026, will support oncology services at several key NCH locations, including the McGlothlin Outpatient Infusion Center near NCH Baker Hospital, the women’s oncology surgical wing at NCH North Hospital, and the gynecological oncology clinic.

In recognition of the gift, NCH is naming the Bob and Brynne Coletti Women’s Cancer Program, further expanding its growing oncology initiative and its 2024 clinical collaboration with Northwestern Medicine, which gives local patients access to expert second opinions, advanced protocols, and cutting-edge clinical trials close to home.

The Coletti family’s philanthropy honors the life of Brynne Farmer Coletti, a Cincinnati-born community leader and longtime chair of the Farmer Family Foundation, who died in December 2024 at age 67 after a courageous battle with brain cancer.

Her husband of 43 years, retired corporate attorney Robert “Bob” E. Coletti, led the gift through the Brynne and Robert Coletti Fund, channeling the family’s grief into a focused effort to ensure that women confronting cancer in Collier County can receive coordinated, world-class care without leaving their support networks.

NCH President and CEO Paul Hiltz called the donation “extraordinary,” emphasizing that philanthropy of this scale accelerates innovation and expands access to specialized services that might otherwise require patients to travel far from home.

Bob Coletti echoed that purpose in a statement, saying the family hopes the gift will honor Brynne’s memory “by helping women receive the care, support, and hope they need at every stage of their journey,” a sentiment that aligns with her decades of work supporting education, health, and social-service organizations in Ohio and Florida.