Partners in Care Foundation 24th Annual Vision & Excellence Tribute Dinner Journal

Partners addresses the social determinants of health by aligning social care and health care.

Gustavo Valdespino

President and Chief Executive Officer Valley Presbyterian Hospital Vision & Excellence in Health Care Leadership Award

Martha Santana-Chin

Medi-Cal and Medicare President Health Net Champion for Health Award

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Skirball Cultural Center

Herscher Hall

2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd. • Los Angeles, CA 90049

Reception: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Dinner and Program: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Welcome!

This evening, as our event theme proudly states, is about Vision, Excellence, Leadership, and Change. Both Gustavo Valdespino and Martha SantanaChin are exemplars of those characteristics, and they join thirty-two other individuals who have been honored for those same attributes during the past 24 years.

As a body, this impressive assembly of honorees demonstrates the impact those characteristics can have in changing the shape of health care, which has been a foundational goal of Partners since its creation in 1997. Back then we posed this question:

“Who will redefine health care? By joining together with public and private sectors, Partners in Care Foundation seeks to shape an efficient, compassionate, and responsive system of care for at-risk individuals, families, and communities. The issue is not doing more. The issue is doing better.”

Since then, both Partners and our honorees have demonstrated that the point made then is indeed THE point. Not to do more, but to do better. To design and perform our work, be it social care or health care, in a way that impacts the lives of those in our care and those around them, for the better.

The fruits of our efforts are clearly visible – locally, regionally, and nationally.

This is a time of rapid transformation. Before, hospitals, health plans, physicians, and CBOs all played magnificent solo roles in providing patient services. Emerging state and federal leadership is now orchestrating interaction among all four groups, reflecting our national and regional work to integrate health care and social care.

For the past ten years, Partners working locally with hospitals and health systems, has demonstrated that the agency’s approach to Care Transitions makes a difference in a patient’s post-discharge experience. They recover faster and experience far fewer readmissions or emergency department visits than a comparable population without the social care services provided through Care Transitions.

Jennifer L. Kozakowski Board Chair

In California, our pioneering work defining and developing Community Care Hubs has become a standard used by Kaiser Permanente, Blue Shield of California, and others to organize social care for their patients and members.

The Health and Human Services (HHS) Playbook to Address Social Determinants of Health identifies “Supporting Community Backbone Organizations” as one of its three pillars to support health by improving the social circumstances of individuals and communities. An example in the HHS Call to Action states “Community Based Organizations develop and/or expand capacity to serve as a Community Care Hub and/or participate as a partner organization in a CBO network led by a Hub organization.”

We are proud that our work nationally as co-leaders of the Partnership to Align Social Care is responsible for these emerging national positions. Our advocacy of, and experience working with, systems of social care have been used as evidence for the formulation of new policies, such as the recent CMS Physician Fee Schedule, which includes new codes for Community Health Integration and Principal Illness Navigation services intended to address national health equity priorities.

These examples demonstrate that change is both possible and happening. With health care leaders, providers, health plans, and community-based organizations, Partners’ is leading the discussion and delivering results demonstrating that joining medical care and social care delivers BETTER care. If the question remains one of doing better – not more – the answer is clear. Thank you for your tremendous support of Partners through the years. You remain key to the success of our mission and vision.

Jennifer L. Kozakowski Chair, Partners in Care Foundation Board of Directors

June Simmons President & CEO Partners in Care Foundation

June Simmons President & CEO

2024 Award for Vision & Excellence in Health Care Leadership

Gustavo Valdespino

President & Chief Executive Officer, Valley Presbyterian Hospital

Gustavo Valdespino was appointed President & Chief Executive Officer of Valley Presbyterian Hospital in September 2009. Mr. Valdespino is a seasoned leader with over 40 years of hospital management experience. Prior to joining Valley Presbyterian Hospital, he served as Senior Vice President of Operations for Tenet Health Corporation’s Southern California region. He also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of St. Vincent Medical Center and as CEO of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Orange County.

Mr. Valdespino has received the “Up and Comer” award from Modern Health Magazine, the National Medical Enterprises “Circle of Excellence” award, the Tenet Healthcare Corporation “Circle of Excellence” award, the “Leading Hispanic Executive” award from Hispanic Business Magazine, The 2021 Trailblazer award from One Generation, the 2017 Hospital CEO of the Year from the Los Angeles Business Journal and the 2022 Leukemia and Lymphoma Gold Coast Man of the Year Award.

Mr. Valdespino holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of New York at Stony Brook, a master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed the advanced management program at the Harvard Business School in Boston.

2024 Champion for Health Award

Martha Santana-Chin

Medi-Cal & Medicare President, Health Net

Martha Santana-Chin serves as Government Programs Officer for Health Net in the California Market. She is a leader with three decades of experience in managed care, operations, delivery system strategy, provider relations, network management, value-based care programs and overall business unit accountability. She has designed and led transformational programs to improve access to care for California’s most vulnerable residents, advance health equity and manage costs.

Ms. Santana-Chin leads the company’s operations as well as the Medicare and Medi-Cal business lines, which serve over 2 million members. She is accountable for long-term strategic planning, plan operations and the successful execution of annual plans to deliver high-quality affordable care. She supports and oversees implementation of the company’s product growth and service area expansions. Prior to Health Net she served in leadership positions with AltaMed Health Services and Tenet Health Systems.

As a Latina leader, the eldest of nine and daughter of immigrants, she prides herself with understanding first-hand the struggles that low-income communities face. Ms. Santana-Chin holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Finance from California State University, Long Beach and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of California, Irvine.

Partners in Care Foundation 2024 Board of Directors

Officers

W. June Simmons

President & Chief Executive Officer

Partners in Care Foundation

Chair

Jennifer L. Kozakowski

Chief Mission Integration Officer –

South Bay

Providence Health

Vice-Chairs

Jennifer Heenan

Partner

Spencer Stuart

Jack Schlosser

Founder & Principal

Desert Vista Advisors

Treasurer

Edward Kim

Chief Administrative Officer

Adventist Health

Secretary

Manoj K. Mathew, MD, SFHM

Former National Medical Director

Agilon Health

Past Chair

Katherine A. Kirchhoff

Managing Director

Cain Brothers & Company, LLC

Members

Pete Brown

Communications Director, City of Los Angeles

Office of Councilmember

Kevin de León

Terri Cammarano, JD, LLM, CHC

Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs & General Counsel

Cedars-Sinai

Paul Craig, JD

Health Care Consultant & Former Chief Administrative Officer

Keck Medicine of USC

Don Crane, JD Healthcare Advocacy

Cathi Cunningham Partner

Deloitte & Touche LLP

Jamey B. Edwards

President & Chief Strategy Officer

Koko Home

Seth Ellis

Vice President, Clinical Integration

MemorialCare Health System

Marta Fernandez, JD Partner

Jeffer, Mangels, Butler, and Mitchell LLP

Amanda Flaum

Vice President CA & HI Medicaid

Kaiser Permanente

Poonam Gorakshakar, MD, FSHM

Regional Medical Director

Blue Shield of California

Gordon M. Johnson

President

KeyGroup

Robert W. Lundy, Jr., JD Partner

Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, PC

Adriana M. Mendoza

Associate State Director

AARP California

Rekha Murthy, MD Healthcare Advocacy

Stephen T. O’Dell

Senior Vice President

Coordinated Regional Care

Prospect Medical Holdings

Al Poirier

Deputy Fire Chief

Beverly Hills Fire Department

Shawn Sheffield

Chief Strategy Officer

Keck Medicine of USC

Alexander Strachan, MD, MBA

Senior Vice President & Chief Medical Officer

National Inpatient Care Management

Gerald Sullivan Chairman

G. J. Sullivan Co., Reinsurance

Mari Zag Director

AArete, LLC

2024 Honorary Tribute Co-Chairs

Cástulo de la Rocha

President & Chief Executive Officer AltaMed

Paul S. Viviano

President & Chief Executive Officer

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

2024 Honorary Tribute Committee

Ron Brookmeyer, PhD

Dean & Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

David Feinberg, MD Chairman

Oracle Health

George Greene, JD

President & Chief Executive Officer

Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC)

Rod Hanners

Chief Executive Officer

Keck Medicine of USC’

President & Chief Executive Officer

USC Health System

Kerry Heinrich Chief Executive Officer

Adventist Health

Keith Hobbs President

Torrance Memorial Medical Center

Yoshi Honkawa Consultant

Cedars-Sinai

Bernie Klein, MD Chief Executive

Providence Holy Cross Medical Center

Chad T. Lefteris President & Chief Executive Officer

UCI Health

Robert Margolis, MD

Former Managing Partner (Retired) Chief Executive Officer Emeritus

Healthcare Partners

Sarita A. Mohanty, MD, MPH, MBA President & Chief Executive Officer

The SCAN Foundation

Thomas Mone

Chief Executive Officer

OneLegacy

Zahra Movaghar, MSPH

Administrator

Preferred IPA of California

Thomas M. Priselac

President & Chief Executive Officer

Cedars-Sinai Health System

Steven Shapiro, MD

Senior Vice President Health Affairs, USC

Arthur M. Southam, MD

Senior Advisor

McKinsey & Company

Johnese Spisso, RN, MPA

President

UCLA Health, Chief Executive Officer

UCLA Hospital System, Associate Vice Chancellor

UCLA Health Sciences

Julie Sprengel

California Region President

CommonSpirit Health

Michael L. Steinberg, MD

Professor & Chair

Department of Radiation Oncology, UCLA Health

Adrian Stern, CPA Partner

Clumeck Stern Schenkelberg & Getzoff

Laura Trejo Director

Los Angeles County Aging & Disabilities Department

Erik G. Wexler

President & Chief Operating Officer

Providence

Barry Wolfman

President & Chief Operating Officer

Dignity St. John’s Regional Medical Center and St. John’s Hospital Camarillo

2024 Tribute Dinner Committee

Chair

Jennifer Heenan Partner

Spencer Stuart Members

Sajid Ahmed

Chief Executive Officer

WISE Healthcare

Amanda Flaum

Vice President CA & HI Medicaid

Kaiser Permanente

Maria Khatcherian, MSHA

Sr. Marketing & Communications Specialist

Valley Presbyterian Hospital

Jennifer L. Kozakowski, MN, MPH

Chief Mission Integration Officer –South Bay

Providence St. Joseph Health

Manoj K. Mathew, MD, SFHM

Former National Medical Director

Agilon Health

Darrel Ng

Vice President, Communications and Marketing

Health Net

Evelyn Pacis

Community Relations Manager

Valley Presbyterian Hospital

Jack Schlosser

Founder & Principal

Desert Vista Advisors

Shawn Sheffield Chief Strategy Officer

Keck Medicine of USC

Matthew Siegler

Senior Vice President

NYC Health & Hospitals

Chief Executive Officer

HHC Accountable Care Organization

Gerald Sullivan Chairman

G. J. Sullivan Co., Reinsurance

Paul S. Viviano

President & Chief Executive Officer

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

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Vision & Excellence in Health Care Leadership Award Past Honorees

2023

Johnese Spisso, RN, MPA

Johnese Spisso, RN, MPA was honored as President of UCLA Health, CEO of UCLA Hospital System, and Associate Vice Chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences. Spisso joined UCLA in 2016 and is responsible for all aspects of the health system and the regional outreach strategy in the local, state, national and international programs.

2022

Arthur M. Southam, MD

Arthur M. Southam, MD was honored as Executive Vice President Health Plan Operations and Chief Growth Officer of Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Southam joined Kaiser Permanente in 2001 and had national responsibility for Health Plan marketing, sales, service, and administrative activities that supported growth and care.

2021

Paul S. Viviano

Paul S. Viviano was honored as President and CEO of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). As a major health care leader and prominent advocate of child health, Mr. Viviano joined CHLA in 2015 and serves as a member of its Board of Directors and Board of Trustees.

2019

Elaine Batchlor, MD, MPH

Elaine Batchlor, MD, MPH, was honored as the CEO of MLK Community Healthcare, a CMS 5-star-rated hospital and health system that provides quality care to 1.3 million residents of the medically underserved community of South Los Angeles. Dr. Batchlor has devoted her career to reducing health disparities and expanding health care quality and access for the most vulnerable.

2018 Diana S. Dooley

Diana S. Dooley was honored as the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency by Governor Jerry Brown at the beginning of his term in 2011. She used federal law, together with state legislative and administrative actions, to make improvements in the quality of healthcare delivery.

2017

Rod Hochman, MD

Rod Hochman, MD, was honored as President and CEO of Providence. Dr. Hochman is responsible for leading the seven-state health system, ensuring access to high-quality, compassionate care is available in each of the communities Providence serves.

2016 Don Crane

Don Crane was honored as President and CEO of America’s Physician Groups (APG), the nation’s only professional association exclusively representing capitated, coordinated care organizations. Under Mr. Crane’s leadership, APG became a leading voice in federal and California advocacy.

2015

Robert Margolis, MD

Robert Margolis, MD, was honored as Co-Chairman of the Board, DaVita HealthCare Partners and CEO Emeritus of HealthCare Partners, LLC.

Dr. Margolis is a much sought-after spokesperson because of his vast experience in integrated delivery systems and physician practice management.

2014 Leeba Lessin

In Memoriam

Leeba Lessin was honored for her role as Senior Vice President of WellPoint and President of its affiliated Medicare businesses, serving more than two million members through Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, and Prescription Drug Plans.

2013

Barry Arbuckle, Ph.D.

Barry Arbuckle, PhD was honored as President and CEO of MemorialCare, a leading Southern California non-profit integrated health care system with over 200 sites of care. Under Dr. Arbuckle’s leadership, MemorialCare has experienced unprecedented growth and financial performance. .

2012

David T. Feinberg, MD, MBA

Dr. Feinberg was honored as President of UCLA Health System. Dr. David Feinberg oversaw all aspects of the prestigious operation, including Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, and UCLA Medical, Santa Monica.

2011

Howard A. Kahn

Howard Kahn was honored as the CEO of L.A. Care Health Plan, the largest public health plan in America. Mr. Kahn has served in leadership positions creating initiatives, coalitions, and policies.

2010

Lloyd A. Bookman, JD

Lloyd A. Bookman, JD was honored as Co-founder and Managing Partner of Hooper, Lundy and Bookman, PC. Mr. Bookman represents health care providers in complex regulatory, reimbursement, and transactional matters.

2010

Robert W. Lundy, Jr., JD

Robert W. Lundy, Jr., JD was honored as Co-founder and Managing Partner of Hooper, Lundy and Bookman, PC, the largest law firm in the country dedicated solely to the representation of health care providers and suppliers.

2009

Richard A. Norling

Richard A. Norling was honored because of his work as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

2008

George C. Halvorson

George C. Halvorson was honored as Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente. Mr. Halvorson headed the nation’s largest non-profit health plan and hospital system, serving more than 9 million members and generating about $50 billion in annual revenue.

2007

Lloyd H. Dean

Lloyd H. Dean was honored for his work as President and CEO of CommonSpirit Health (formerly known as Dignity Health and Catholic Healthcare West), an integrated not-for-profit health care system in three western states.

2006

Francine Kaufman, MD

Francine Kaufman, MD was honored as a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine and the Annenberg School of Communications at USC..

2005

Thomas M. Priselac

Thomas M. Priselac was honored as President and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Health System. Mr. Priselac is an author and invited speaker on a variety of contemporary issues facing the health care field today.

2004

C. Duane Dauner

In Memoriam

C. Duane Dauner was honored as President and CEO of the California Hospital Association. A nationally known leader on health issues, Duane helped California lead the nation in innovative care delivery, quality improvement, and payment programs.

2003

Robert E. Tranquada, MD

In Memoriam

Robert E. Tranquada, MD was honored for his leadership that initiated and shaped many health care organizations. He served on many local and national health care charities, higher education, and civic boards, and authored numerous medical and policy articles.

2002

James E. Ludlam, JD

In Memoriam

Mr. Ludlam was honored and recognized as one of the founders of health care law who helped shape California’s healthcare environment.

2001 Yoshi Honkawa

Mr. Honkawa was honored for his many years as Vice President, Government and Industry Relations, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, following a long and distinguished career in health care administration.

2000

Dr. Allen Mathies In Memoriam

and Weta Mathies

The Mathies Award was named in honor of this couple’s distinguished careers and Dr. Mathies’ remarkable leadership of the Visiting Nurse Association of Los Angeles (VNA-LA) and the founding Board of Partners in Care Foundation.

Champion for Health Past Honorees

2022

Sachin H. Jain, MD

Sachin H. Jain, MD was honored as President and CEO of SCAN Group and Health Plan, where he is charged with leading the organization’s growth, diversification, and emerging efforts to reduce health care disparities. Under Dr. Jain’s leadership, SCAN’s revenues topped $3.4B and the organization now serves 220,000 patients.

2014

James R. West

James R. West was honored as the President and CEO of PIH Health, an integrated delivery system comprised of two hospitals, 22 medical offices, home health services, a medical foundation, and an independent physician association.

2011

Molina Family & Molina Family Healthcare, Inc.

Molina Healthcare began in 1980 as a small medical clinic in Long Beach, California. As an emergency room (ER) physician, C. David Molina, MD saw the need for an alternative to going to the ER.

2010

Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong was honored as a physician, surgeon, and scientist. He pioneered treatments for both diabetes and cancer, publishing over 100 scientific papers, and holds 50 US patents on groundbreaking advancements across a myriad of fields.

2006 Kathleen Brown

Kathleen Brown was honored as the former Treasurer of the State of California and Board member of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Lifetime Achievement Award Past Honorees

2023

Robert K. Ross, MD

Robert K. Ross, MD, was honored as President and CEO of The California Endowment, a private, statewide health foundation established in 1996. During his tenure, Dr. Ross provided leadership in supporting the vision of underserved communities and grassroots leaders for a healthier California and a healthier America.

2021

Paul Torrens, MD, MPH

In Memoriam

Paul Torrens, MD, was honored as Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (FSPH), and as Founder of the Paul Torrens Health Forum at UCLA. In his more than 40 years at FSPH, Dr. Torrens patiently guided, mentored and advised generations of students, helping shape many distinguished careers in public health.

2018 C. Duane Dauner

In Memoriam

C. Duane Dauner was honored for his more than 50-year career in the health care field as a visionary and widely respected national leader who was dedicated to improving the health and well-being of all Americans.

Partners In Care Foundation Innovations

Social Care is Growing in Importance

Social care as a response to health-related social needs has gained prominence to the point that the Department of Health and Human Services is now encouraging specific policy initiatives.

Prior to this, health care provision really was a solo performance, with hospitals, health plans, physicians, and CBOs all playing crucial, but essentially independent roles in addressing the health of an individual. The idea that social needs could impact the success of health care interventions rarely came up. Post institutional factors were a blind spot.

Now state and federal leadership is orchestrating interaction among all four groups, reflecting Partners’ national and regional work to integrate social care and health care. Much of that policy work reflects our agency’s role as a social care change-agent and think-tank.

Partners has been a leader in responding to social care service delivery for more than twenty-five years. In the process, we have developed powerfully innovative social care services and tools that are communitybased, low-cost, implemented by social care staff, such as Community Health Workers or Social Workers, and the concept of Community Care Hubs - all of which enable people to receive services necessary to stay in their homes.

CalAim

California is in the midst of an ambitious series of reforms known as CalAIM designed to transform Medi-Cal completely by 2027. Enhanced Care Management (ECM) is an integral part of CalAIM, serving people

with complex social and medical needs, severe chronic conditions, who are frequent ER users, and who may experience homelessness. In serving this population throughout California, Partners identifies, engages, and provides ongoing social care management services that are community-based and low-cost to help members stay healthy. Our staff and the staff in our Community Care Hub who also serve these individuals are highly knowledgeable about community-based services –where they are located, and which organizations can be of assistance.

Care Transitions

For the past ten years, working with hospitals and health systems have demonstrated that our agency’s approach to Care Transitions makes a difference in a patient’s post-discharge experience. They recover faster and experience far fewer readmissions or emergency department visits than a comparable population without the social care services provided through Care Transitions. Our community-based Care Transitions Program (CCTP) interventions demonstrated significantly lower mortality and spending rates for those patients engaged in our interventions than was experienced by the control group. affordable, high-quality health and social care. We’ve made great strides in our time, and, with your help, we look forward to even greater successes and innovations in the decades to come.

Community Care Hubs

Our national work defining and developing Community Care Hubs has become a California standard used by Kaiser Permanente, Blue Shield, and others to organize social care for their patients and members. The national department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Playbook to Address Social Determinants of Health identifies “Supporting Community Backbone Organizations” as one of its three pillars to support health by improving the social circumstances of individuals and communities.

An example in the HHS Call to Action states “Community Based Organizations develop and/ or expand capacity to serve as a Community Care Hub and/or participate as a partner organization in a CBO network led by a Hub organization.”

Workforce Development Training Center

The number of California residents qualifying for Medi-Cal ECM and Community Supports services – combined with a rapidly growing elderly population – is putting a strain on the available workforce necessary to provide services.

To address this shortage, Partners is actively identifying and training individuals interested in this work. We have a long history of building the pool of Community Health Workers in California, having pioneered the approach with Blue Shield of California and then furthered that experience in partnership with LA Valley College and the Archstone Foundation. We established our Workforce Development Center several years ago to focus on growing this pool of skilled social care givers and continue to offer high-quality, experience-based training to individuals who want to become Community Health Workers.

One of our innovative approaches has been to offer Community Health Worker training online as a means of making classes available to nontraditional students or people who already have a job but would like to make a change to a rewarding occupation.

Several California agencies have developed funding streams underwriting this type of training for individuals. These include the California Department of Health Care’s Caring4Cal program and the California Department of Aging’s CalGrows program. Both are also providing incentive payments to individuals as a means of encouraging their participation.

Please join us as an inaugural member of Partners in Legacy Society

We are grateful to the many donors who have already created legacy gifts for the benefit of Partners in Care Foundation. Designating a planned gift makes you a member of the Partners in Legacy Society. Members of Partners in Legacy Society will receive immediate recognition on our organization’s website and in our publications and receive invitations to special events.

We salute the inaugural members of the Partners in Legacy Society:

• Michael* and Lourdes* Collins

• Paul Craig, JD & Mary Jo Webb

• Richard & Nancy Flores

• Genevieve Goetz

• Frances Hanckel, Sc.D.

• Leeba Lessin*

• June Simmons & Jody Dunn

• Gerald & Wendy Sullivan

*In Memoriam

A planned gift is easy to make and can provide tax and income benefits to the donor, as well as current and long-term benefits to Partners. Whether it is naming Partners in Care Foundation in your will or trust for any amount of money or giving a gift of a house, other real property, stock, or an investment or retirement account, there is an easy option that is right for your giving situation. To ensure that a full range of the community’s needs are met today and into the future, we invite caring supporters like you to join our Partners in Legacy Society by creating your own legacy with a planned gift to Partners. Please consult with your legal and financial advisors about making a planned gift to Partners in Care Foundation. For more information about how you can support our work and create a lasting legacy for you and your family, please contact Allyson Simpson, Senior Director of Development, at asimpson@picf.org or visit our planned giving website at www.partners-legacy.org.

Spotlight on Partners in Legacy Society Members

Jerry and Wendy Sullivan

Jerry Sullivan has been a force in the insurance industry in Southern California and across the nation for over four decades. He is a recognized and respected leader in developing creative business insurance solutions, especially for the health care industry. It was this work that brought him into contact in the 1990’s with June Simmons and the Visiting Nurses Association (VNA). Jerry greatly admired VNA’s work and its positive impact in the community. It was June who initially involved him with VNA and ultimately with its successor organization, Partners in Care Foundation. He has worked with June consistently over the intervening years as a Board member of organizations she has headed. As Jerry observes and most people who know her will agree, “it is hard to say no to June Simmons!”.

As an active, long-term member of the Partners Board of Directors, Jerry has served consistently as a member of the Tribute Dinner steering committee. His influence in the healthcare industry has helped to produce many successful Tribute Dinners and increased visibility for Partners.

Jerry and his wife Wendy are dedicated philanthropists who believe in supporting charitable organizations that help people who struggle to take care of themselves and have nowhere else to turn. They believe that agencies like Partners perform a significant role in society that government entities don’t always handle well. Jerry and Wendy continue to live out this belief by their unwavering support. Recently, Jerry and Wendy advised Partners that they have made a planned gift commitment through their estate plan. When asked why they made this decision, Jerry responded that they want to assure that Partners will be around to continue its essential work for many years to come. For their vision and generosity, Partners sincerely thanks Jerry and Wendy and welcomes them as inaugural members of the Partners in Legacy Society.

Partners in Care Foundation Leading to Align Social Care and Health Care

Co-Designing a Social Care Delivery System

Now in its third year, the Partnership to Align Social Care (“Partnership”) continues to focus on advancing the broader national alignment of healthcare and social care service delivery. The Partnership brings together leaders from across the social care and health care sectors to co-design and promote scalable, sustainable, and equitable partnerships between health care entities and social care providers that are organized into community care networks led by community care hubs.

Partners in Care Foundation President and CEO, June Simmons, has served as Co-Chair of this innovative coalition since its inception in early 2022. In coordination with Co-Chair, Tim McNeill, CEO of Freedmen’s Health Consulting, the Partnership to Align Social Care includes health plans, health systems, providers, community-based organizations, and government.

The Partnership has served an instrumental role in advancing community care hubs nationally. Partnership stakeholders continue to build upon an existing library of resources that reflect cross sector co-design to inform ongoing infrastructure development, contracting, and payment opportunities among health and social care providers. These initiatives also aim to share leading practices and accelerate long-term system transformation and alignment between the social and health care ecosystems. Federal agency, state, and public health stakeholders are also engaged in the collaborative cross-sector forum that the Partnership has enabled.

According to Simmons, “The Partnership to Align Social Care reflects the unique and collective commitment of its stakeholders to inform and shape responsive, effective, meaningful, and equitable systems alignment to promote positive health outcomes among un/under-served communities.

Leading the Way on Aligning Health and Social Care

The work of the Partnership has also informed and helped to catalyze a broader whole-of-government initiative to advance health and social care alignment opportunities through backbone organizations including community care hubs. In 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released numerous resources and a milestone Call-To-Action to encourage ongoing partnership opportunities between health care and community leaders. The Partnership has also served a key role to enable reimbursement opportunities for health-related social needs (HRSNs) centering the essential role of CBOs in providing these services.

Moving forward, the Partnership will continue to build resources for health and social care ecosystem stakeholders; advance payment opportunities through an unprecedented learning collaborative focused on addressing health equity goals; and identify and elevate sustainable financing models, multi-stakeholder accountability efforts, and supportive policy changes at the federal, state, and local levels.

As McNeill observes, “The shift to value-based care will not be achieved unless sustainable models of SDOH delivery are implemented. The work of the Partnership to Align Social Care is an important initiative toward achieving Health Equity for all vulnerable populations.”

To learn more and access Partnership resources, visit the website: https://partnership2asc.org

To sign up for the Partnership’s email list contact Autumn Campbell at: acampbell@partnership2asc.org

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Fiona Hutton & Associates

First 5 LA

Richard & Nancy Flores

G.J. Sullivan Co Reinsurance

Eileen Goodis Strom and Dr. Eric Strom

Frances Hanckel, Sc.D.

Health Care LA, IPA

Health Net

Jennifer Heenan

Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, P.C.

Hospital Association of Southern California

HubMD

Independent Living Systems

Inland Empire Health Plan

Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP

Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

Gordon & Barbara Johnson

Kaiser Permanente

Keck Medicine of USC

Keck School of Medicine of USC

KeyGroup

Katherine A. Kirchhoff

LA Care Health Plan

Los Angeles Water & Power

Employee Association, Inc.

Robert & Randi Lundy

M Strategic Communications

Manoj Mathew, MD, SFHM

MDX Hawaii

MedPOINT Management

MedZed

MemorialCare

Adriana Mendoza

Molina HealthCare

National Council on Aging, Inc.

Fabian Nunez

Stephen T. O’Dell

OneLegacy

OPR Communications

Payden & Rygel

Preferred IPA of California

Providence

RBB Architects, Inc.

Rokos Group

James Rothrock

Ruby Family Foundation

Ken & Wendy Ruby

SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan

Jack & Carissa Schlosser

Shield Healthcare

John M. Simmons

June Simmons & Jody Dunn

Spencer Stuart

Michael L. Steinberg, MD

Adrian Stern, CPA

Gerald & Wendy Sullivan

The California Endowment

UCLA Health

Rini & Gustavo Valdespino

Valley Presbyterian Hospital

Wesley Health Centers

Whittier Trust

WISE Healthcare

WittKieffer

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First 5 LA advocates for children and their families, amplifies community voice and partners for collective impact so that every child in Los Angeles County reaches their full developmental potential throughout the critical years of prenatal to age 5.

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We are proud to support Partners in Care Foundation and the important work it is doing to combat loneliness and social isolation in older adults

We congratulate this year’s honorees

Gustavo Valdespino President

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Valley Presbyterian Hospital Vision & Excellence in Healthcare Leadership Award and Martha Santana-Chin

Medi-Cal and Medicare President Health Net Champion for Health Award

And thank them for their outstanding leadership in improving healthcare and making it more accessible for the people of California

Richard and Nancy Flores

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Partners in Care Foundation 2024 Board of Councilors

Co-Chairs

Lloyd Bookman, JD

Founding Partner

Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, PC

Robert W. Lundy, Jr., JD Founding Partner

Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, PC

Members

Barry Arbuckle, PhD

President & Chief Executive Officer MemorialCare Health System

Elaine Batchlor, MD, MPH Chief Executive Officer

MLK Community Healthcare & MLK Community Hospital

Kathleen Brown, JD Partner

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Carmela Coyle

President & Chief Executive Officer California Hospital Association

Donald Crane

Former President & Chief Executive Officer

America’s Physician Groups

Cástulo de la Rocha

President & Chief Executive Officer

AltaMed Health Services Corporation

Lloyd H. Dean

Former Chief Executive Officer

CommonSpirit Health

Diana Dooley Retired

David Feinberg, MD, MBA Chairman Oracle Health

George Halvorson Chair & Chief Executive Officer Institute for InterGroup Understanding

Rod Hochman, MD President & Chief Executive Officer Providence St. Joseph Health

Yoshi Honkawa Consultant

Cedars-Sinai

Thomas Jackiewicz, MPH President University of Chicago Medical Center

Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA, FACP President & Chief Executive Officer SCAN Group & SCAN Health Plan

Howard Kahn Chair Physicians for a Healthy California

Francine Kaufman, MD Chief Medical Officer Senseonics

Hyong (Ken) Kim, MD Chief Executive Officer Giatros Health

Robert Margolis, MD Chief Executive Officer Emeritus HealthCare Partners

J. Mario Molina, MD

Board Chair & Co-Founder

United States of Care

Richard Norling

Senior Fellow

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

Thomas Priselac

President & Chief Executive Officer

Cedars-Sinai

Robert K. Ross, MD

President & Chief Executive Officer

The California Endowment

Martha Santana-Chin

Medi-Cal President

Health Net

Arthur Southam, MD, MBA, MPH

Sr. Advisor

McKinsey & Company

Johnese Spisso, RN, MPA

President

UCLA Health, Chief Executive Officer

UCLA Hospital System, Associate Vice Chancellor

UCLA Health Sciences

Gustavo Valdespino

President & Chief Executive Officer

Valley Presbyterian Hospital

Steve Valentine

President

Valentine Health Advisers

Partner

Guidehouse Consulting

Chris D. Van Gorder, FACHE

President & Chief Executive Officer

Scripps Health

Paul S. Viviano

President & Chief Executive Officer

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

James R. West System President & Chief Executive Officer

PIH Health

In Memoriam

C. Duane Dauner

Special Adviser, Former President/ Chief Executive Officer

California Hospital Association

Leeba Lessin Former President CareMore

James E. Ludlam, JD Of Counsel Musick, Peeler & Garrett

Allen Mathies, MD Former Chief Executive Officer & President Emeritus

Huntington Hospital

Paul Torrens, MD, MPH

Professor Emeritus

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Robert Tranquada, MD

Professor Emeritus

University of Southern California

Congratulations to Partners in Care’s 2024 Honorees

Gus Valdespino and Martha Santana Chin

Tierra champions inclusion and value for all people with disabilities through creative pathways to employment, education, and the arts.

Our work serves as a bridge between medical care and what a person can accomplish in their own home.

We manage the gaps in non-medical care that affect a person’s recovery and overall health. These include challenges such as food insecurity, confusion regarding medications, transportation difficulties, and home safety.

We do this work through a network of community-based organizations, and our own staff, either coordinating or providing evidencebased services.

The result is happier, healthier people cared for at lower expense in their own homes and communities.