- Occupation: Nurse/Educator
- A thirty year local resident who has been trained to be a patient care advocate and to be the voice for patients and their families
- Santa Rosa Junior College Board Trustee
- Lecturer on the politics of health care to nurses for 20 years
- Participant in drafting the first successful HMO reform legislation and legislation to provide the first funding for rural health clinics
- Chairperson of the California Nurses Alliance legislative program
- Grass roots organizer in health care since 1971 when I organized the Alianza Farmworkers Clinic in Healdsburg
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Top Priorities if Elected |
- Save the hospital through affiliation with Sutter or other options
- Maintain quality care
- Expand services to seniors, Latinos, and women.
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- Candidate Statement
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I have the experience, ability and commitment necessary to preserve our community hospital to guarantee the hospital maintains the quality patient care Sonoma Valley deserves.
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