Fawcett Memorial Hospital is a 253-bed acute care center serving the Charlotte County community and surrounding areas. Its medical staff of 280 physicians represents a wide range of specialties. In addition, a group of 305 volunteers donated tens of thousands of hours of their time last year at Fawcett.

Port Charlotte is located where the Peace River meets the Gulf of Mexico. Convenient to I-75, just north of Fort Myers and just south of Sarasota. An area of many great golf and waterfront communities, Southwest Florida offers performing arts, shopping, spring training baseball, ice hockey, museums, Florida Gulf Coast University, Community colleges, excellent schools and great neighborhoods, all with the pristine natural beauty of the gulf coast.