Nowadays, health issues facing Indonesian society are getting more complicated. Geographic, accessibility of the healthcare services, and workload are factors that influence nurses’ performance for the public healthcare program. Furthermore, the coverage of high-risk family and some diseases are low. The study aimed to investigate the nurses’ performance for the public healthcare (PERKESMAS) program at community health centers in Central Lombok Region. This was a descriptive study using a cross-sectional approach. The participants were nurses-in-charge of the community health center, which were selected using probability sampling. The data gathered using a questionnaire developed by the author. The data were analyzed in distribution frequency and percentage. Twenty nurses participated in this study. The results show that the knowledge of the majority of the participants was categorized as good (50%), the workplace was reachable (65%), the career opportunity was available (60%), 60% of the participants stated that they had the financial resource, 65% had become participants at public health care training program, and 55% of the participants stated that they had been supervised in public health care activities. The implementation of the public health care program needs to be supported by an excellent nursing performance to actualize public health and welfare