Donors
Three separate gifts totaling $10 million have enabled the Florida State University College of Medicine to establish the Isabel Collier Read Medical Campus in Immokalee.
The Naples Children and Education Foundation (NCEF) granted $2 million to the College of Medicine in December 2007 to fund renovations to a 29,000-square-foot medical clinic in Immokalee that had been donated to FSU by Naples Community Hospital Healthcare System earlier in the year. Valued at $7 million, the building had originally been donated to NCH Healthcare by the late Ms. Isabel Collier Read in an effort to ensure that the medical needs of the community's farm workers and other underserved residents would be met. After the deed on the property was transferred to FSU, Ms. Read endowed the medical school's educational program in Immokalee with an additional gift of $1 million.
