SHD is a private, nonprofit organization committed to bridging community values and healthcare policy and practice
in the Sacramento region. SHD is currently involved in two major projects:
1. Visible Fairness project – exploring with the public the trade-offs between cost and benefit of treatment decisions, to assure a healthcare system that is "fair" and "visible".
2. Advance Care Planning – engaging the public in reflection, discussion and action on end-of-life issues through materials, tools and trainings.
SHD assures that the public has a voice—as individual consumers and as a community—in the changing healthcare environment and functions as a
nonpartisan linkage among the public, providers and policymakers. Specifically, SHD's role is to…
1. Provide a nonpartisan forum for civic education about individual and societal healthcare issues. 2. Serve as a catalyst and
resource for building public involvement in improving healthcare policy and practice. 3. Develop models based on collaboration between the public and providers to address health policy
issues. 4. Facilitate collaboration among the public and other healthcare stakeholders as they respond to issues identified through the health decisions process.
"Health decisions" organizations
There are approximately 12 independent health decisions
organizations around the country, each committed to assuring that community values play a role in improving healthcare policy and practice. SHD and its colleagues in other states are members of
American Health Decisions www.ahd.org, a national umbrella organization that promotes
the mission of values-based citizen participation in healthcare issues. SHD Board of DirectorsPlans succeed through good counsel.
Proverbs 20:18 Lori Cappello Dangberg, Board President
Vice President, Government Relations
Alliance of Catholic Health Care
Glennah Trochet, M.D., Vice President
County Health Officer
SacramentoHenry Sepulveda, J.D., Secretary/Treasurer
Director of Legislation
California Seismic Safety Commission
Byron Chell, J.D.
Executive Director
California Medical Assistance Commission Gayle Erbe-Hamlin, MPA
Director
El Dorado County Public Health Department
Ed Glavis
Senior Vice President/Area Manager
Kaiser Foundation Hospital and Health Plan
Charity Kenyon
Attorney
Riegels Campos & Kenyon LLP
Bill Mason, MPH
Retired Health Care Executive
Sacramento Judge Vance Raye
California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District
Sacramento Ellen Robinson-Haynes, M.A.
Principal, WordWork
Fair Oaks
Miko Sawamura
Program Analyst
Department of Managed Health Care
Shelly Schlenker
Director of Community Partnerships
Mercy Healthcare Sacramento Marsha Vacca
Vacca Associates
Carmichael SHD staff Marjorie Ginsburg, Executive Director
Kathy Glasmire, Associate Director
Corinne Grimes, Administrative & Project Assistant Funding sources in 2001 SHD is grateful to the foundations and organizations that support its work. Grants and significant contributions are provided by:
- California HealthCare Foundation
- The California Endowment
- Mercy Healthcare Sacramento
- Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program
- Sutter Medical Center
All contributions are fully tax-deductible.
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