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News from the Grossmont Healthcare District
The Grossmont Healthcare District (GHD) board of directors has unanimously voted to select Deborah McElravy, a San Carlos resident and pharmacy manager at Costco Wholesale in La Mesa, to fill a vacant seat on the GHD board.
The vacancy was created with the recent resignation of Elizabeth Evans, a registered nurse who relocated to Hawaii with her family. Evans won a seat on the board in the November 2004 general election. McElravy will serve on the board until November 2008, which is the next time the seat appears on the ballot. McElravy was appointed on a 4-0 vote at a special board meeting held on Dec. 22, 2006.
McElravy is a former GHD board member who served from 2000 to 2004, when she lost her re-election bid. It was her first time in public office. “I really enjoyed my four years of serving on the board, and I have missed it,” she said. “I have a solid understanding about the District, and look forward to continuing my service to District residents and the community.”
A native of Glassport, Penn., McElravy graduated from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh with a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy. She has lived in the East County since 1974, and worked at Costco Wholesale since 1999. Prior to Costco, she was a pharmacy manager for two years at a pharmacy for chronic disease patients and at Kaiser Permanente for 18 years. She has three grown children, including a daughter who works in advertising, a son who works in real estate appraising and a daughter who works in retailing.
Eight other District residents applied for the vacant seat. The applicants included: 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; 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 Grossmont Healthcare District is a public agency that supports health-realted community programs and services in San Diego’s East County region. The 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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