Health is everyone’s business.
Sequoia Health District is better positioned today than it perhaps ever has been to coalesce, align, leverage, and optimize resources and partnerships for the highest mission priorities and impact.
I am the right leader at this time of need for long-term strategy and sustainability, innovative solutions, effective collaboration, and results-driven focus.
My entire career in business and community and civic leadership has been focused on advancing human potential and wellbeing. As your representative on the Sequoia Healthcare District Board, I will bring an equity focus to everything I do. It is my personal purpose to improve health and opportunity for everyone in our community.
Let’s thrive — together.
Health is a driver of prosperity.
Investments in health contribute to individuals’ and families’ quality of life, make our local economy stronger, and create a more vibrant community. Health contributes almost as much to income growth as education. Instead of thinking of health as a cost to society, focusing on health as an investment can deliver significant social and economic returns.
SHD can be a truly stand out leader in whole community health, strengthening healthcare networks and community connections, addressing the shortage of local healthcare providers, and accounting for measurable, meaningful impact that keeps moving holistic community health forward.
These are the core levers I will focus on:
Increase and improve access for underserved populations through innovative delivery models and strong cross-sector partnerships.
Build and sustain the local healthcare provider pipeline and support healthcare worker wellbeing. Investment in the workforce is also an investment in patient outcomes.
Transparency and accountability.
“I am passionate about quality healthcare for all. To make this change requires a clear roadmap, efficient systems, and strong infrastructure, but at the very heart must be a ‘whole person - whole community’ mindset and focus. ”
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The Sequoia Healthcare District (SHD) exists to respond to the specialized health needs of our community and plays a crucial role in ensuring residents can access care that would otherwise be out of reach. SHD is funded through property taxes and puts those dollars right back into the community through grant making to community health organizations, primary care clinics and school-based health programs, making a difference and improving the lives of residents every day.
SHD is directly accountable to you. No one knows the needs of our community more than the people who live here. The interdependencies of our neighborhoods and communities are becoming so much more clear. COVID-19 brought that to light in a way none of us could probably have imagined.