SHD Staff

Marjorie Ginsburg, MPH
Executive Director

Not one to be pinned down too early, Marge attended six colleges in 18 years. As an RN, she drifted from a hospital ED to the United Farm Workers, Peace Corps in Nepal, a free clinic in Philly, home care nurse in Baltimore and San Francisco. Deciding she wanted to run things, Marge earned an MPH at UC Berkeley. She started an adult day health center, then was program administrator at the S.F. Institute on Aging. The 1989 earthquake convinced her husband to move to Sacramento, so she tagged along. There she discovered the health decisions movement (perhaps less a movement than a philosophy). After a brief stint with California Health Decisions, she founded Sacramento Healthcare Decisions in 1994.

Marge currently serves on NCQA’s Committee on Performance Measurement, Integrated Healthcare Association board, California Technology Assessment Forum panel and California Hospital Assessment & Reporting Task Force (CHART) board. Previously, she was California Coalition for Compassionate Care co-chair and served on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Advisory Committee for its Community-State Partnerships to Improve End-of-Life Care initiative. Marge also has chaired the Sacramento County Commission on Geographic Managed Care, and the Sacramento County Public Health Advisory Board.

Kathy Glasmire, BA
Associate Director

A child of the 60s who grew up in a small Ohio town, Kathy was impatient to get on with her life. She left college at age 19, married at 20 and moved to California at 22. Newly arrived in Sacramento, she stumbled upon a position with the Community Services Planning Council, and a career with non-profit community-based organizations was born. She spent the next 20 years honing her skills in community outreach, planning and organization. One of her most intriguing positions was with Sacramento′s first health decisions project sponsored by the Planning Council in the late 80s. Issues of death and dying, the appropriate use of medical technology and cost containment were hot topics. The more things change …!

Deciding in her 40s to return to school, Kathy completed her B.A. in Humanities and Religious Studies from Sacramento State University. Her year as a full-time student delving into The Odyssey, Zen Buddhism and the Impressionists was one of life′s highlights. Kathy and her husband Larry will celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary in 2008. Their daughter Laurel is a graduate student and budding teacher in Portland, Oregon.

Funders

SHD is grateful to the foundations and organizations that support its work. Grants and significant contributions are provided by:

California HealthCare Foundation
Catholic Healthcare West - Sacramento
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program
Sutter Medical Center - Sacramento

 Current SHD initiatives:

• Final Chapter: Improving care at the end of life. Since 1994, SHD has played a leadership role in local, state, and national activities related to improving end-of-life care. Current work includes activities in the Sacramento regional Compassionate Care Alliance and statewide California Coalition for Compassionate Care.
  
  
• Fair Sharing: Setting priorities when resources are finite. The escalating cost of healthcare challenges society to consider how resources should be allocated. SHD has spearheaded a number of projects to educate consumers and elicit their views on this difficult and divisive topic.
  
  Just Coverage
  Getting Good Value
  Medi-Cal CHAT
  The Capitol Region CHAT Project
  Visible Fairness

SHD Board of Directors

President
Glennah Trochet, MD
County Health Officer
Sacramento

Vice President
Gayle Erbe-Hamlin, MPA
Director
El Dorado County Public Health Department

Secretary / Treasurer
Miko Sawamura
Chief, Office of Regulations and Hearings
California Department of Public Health

Jose Arevalo, MD, FAAFP
Medical Director
Sutter Independent Physicians

Lori Cappello Dangberg
Vice President, Government Relations
Alliance of Catholic Health Care

Susan DeMarois
Asst. Director, Government & Community Relations
UC Davis Health System

Dorothy Meehan, MBA, CPA
Vice President
Sierra Health Foundation

Jennifer Nuovo, MD
Senior Medical Director, State Health Programs
Health Net of California, Inc.

Vance W. Raye

Shelley Rouillard
Deputy Director, Benefits & Quality Monitoring Div.
Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board

Shelly Schlenker, MPA
VP, Public Policy and Advocacy
Catholic Healthcare West - Sacramento

Henry Sepulveda, JD
Judicial Council of California

Max Villalobos
Senior VP/Area Manager
Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento