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News from the Grossmont Healthcare District
The Grossmont Healthcare District (GHD), a public agency that supports health-related community programs and services in San Diego’s East County region, has received nine applications from East County residents for the vacancy on its five-member board of directors. The applicants will be considered at a special board meeting starting at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 22, at the GHD Conference Center, 9001 Wakarusa St., La Mesa.
The applicants include: Gary Baldwin, a retiree who is involved with several community activities; Bob Battenfield, an advertising agency principal; Cindy Carpenter, a registered nurse who consults in the workers’compensation arena; Dr. Clete DiGiovanni, a public health and medical adviser with the federal government; Howard Kummerman, assistant deputy chief operating officer for Neighborhood and Customer Services with the City of San Diego; Deborah McElravy, pharmacy manager at Costco Wholesale in La Mesa and former GHD board member from 2000 to 2004; Bella Montgomery, a medical nurse practitioner at UCSD’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Impatient Facility; Anne Sawyers, a staff research associate at the University of California at Irvine and lab manager at Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center; and, Robert Zitsman, executive director of the Lemon Grove Care & Rehabilitation Center, a skilled nursing facility.
The board vacancy was created with the recent resignation of Elizabeth Evans, a nurse practitioner who recently relocated to Hawaii with her family. She was elected to a four-year term in the November 2004 general election. Her successor will serve on the board until November 2008, which is the next time the seat appears on the ballot.
The Grossmont Healthcare District, formed in 1952 to build and operate Grossmont Hospital, serves as landlord of the hospital on behalf of local taxpayers, including ownership of the property and buildings. The District’s five-member board of directors, each elected to four-year terms, represent nearly 500,000 East County residents who live within the District’s 750 square miles in San Diego East County. For more information about GHD, visit www.grossmonthealthcare.org.
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